Since 2013, Noble Paws has worked with Fairbanksans with emotional, intellectual and physical disabilities as well as at risk youth.
Spotlight: Naomi Bailey
Bailey has been named the Alaska Gatorade Player of the Year for girls cross country. It’s the fourth straight year a West Valley runner has won the award with Kendall Kramer winning the previous three years.
At The Library
It says a great deal when a major artist or author takes time to respond to young fans so personally, or even to old ones – don’t get me started on my eight-year correspondence with Patrick O’Brian, who tops my list of all-time favorite writers.
Pioneer History Nugget
In April 1941, the Army was preparing to conduct the first ever parachute training here in Fairbanks, however the first jump in Fairbanks had occurred 17 years prior as an exhibition stunt for a 4th of July celebration.
The AFL-CIO Alaska and the University of Alaska voiced support for a bill Alaska lawmakers are considering to offer free or reduced tuition to Alaska's essential workers or people who lost jobs due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Recently, Alaskans in Fairbanks and across the state have been receiving scam calls from individuals impersonating representatives from the U.S. Marshals office. Callers tell individuals they have missed federal jury duty and ask for money or personal information in exchange for dropping the warrant.
The low in Fairbanks on Friday was minus 27 degrees Fahrenheit, which eclipsed the previous daily record of minus 16 degrees set in 1911. According to climatologist Rick Thoman, this is the first time since 2013 that Fairbanks has set a daily record low temperature.
Overall, the issues Golden Valley Electrical Association linemen worked on this past snowy weekend were small and isolated, with the largest outage leaving 1,100 members without power, but most of them affecting anywhere from 10 to 60 people, said Meadow Bailey, GVEA’s director of External Affairs and Public Relations.
“We are going to embark on an advertising campaign nationally like we have never seen,” Dunleavy said, “because we have never experienced a year like this.”
A cruise ship ban by Canada, coupled with CDC restrictions, is blocking the return of Alaska cruise ship voyages in 2021.
