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Alaska Science Forum
Photo by Paul Mann Geologist Rich Koehler stands on a shoreline in Haiti. Landslides during the magnitude 7.0 earthquake in January transported a few trees out to sea. Alaska geologist returns from Haiti earthquake zone
FAIRBANKS – After a few chaotic, free-form weeks in Haiti, an Alaska geologist reported that he and a team of others didn’t find the rips in the ground they were looking for following the ...
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Scott McCrea
Look out! Here comes the ‘Crazy Cat Man’ of Chena Ridge
FAIRBANKS – My name is Scott McCrea. I am an Alaskan male, and I like cats. (begins sobbing uncontrollably) I’ve got three of them, thank you very much. There is Chili Pepper, Peanut and...
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In the Bush
The February 2010 meeting of the Denali Subsistence Resource Committee was held at Lake Minchumina. Clockwise from lower left: Andrew Ackerman, Paul Starr, Penny Green, Miki Collins, Philip Hooge, Ray Collins, Amy Craver, Jeff Burney, John Burns, Scott Pariseau, Richard Moore and Pat Owens. Photo by Julie Collins. Meeting provides Denali-area subsistence users a voice
LAKE MINCHUMINA – I think the Denali Subsistence Resource Commission meeting was first proposed to be held in Minchumina about 15 years ago. After its formation following 1980 additions ...
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Judy Ferguson
Reb Ferguson photo Sarah frosted up at 40 below during a 1996 trapline trip. Life of an Alaska speckled bird — Sarah
DELTA JUNCTION – In making a life in the Lower 48, children raised in Bush Alaska often feel different than children raised Outside. The contrast for an Alaska child has been called “fee...
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Randy Zarnke
Windy Skaflestad spends a lot of time outside hunting and fishing. Photo by Randy Zarnke Hoonah provides a lifetime of livelihood and subsistence for Skaflestads
FAIRBANKS – Windy Skaflestad was born in the small Southeastern village of Hoonah in 1936 and has lived there most of his life. His family made a living based on resources provided by the ...
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Main Story
Allison Cotter concentrates as she works on her ice carving. John Wagner/News-Miner
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Alaska ice escapades: Newbies take chisels to ice for amateur carving exhibition
by Reba Lean / For the News-Miner
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FAIRBANKS - At the World Ice Art Championships, among the painstakingly perfected animals and the towering abstract pieces, are the works of those who are, well, trying things out for the first tim...
Book Reviews
Review: Woman’s ordeal as Japanese prisoner on Attu
FAIRBANKS – Someone once told me that heroes are ordinary people who do extraordinary things. No place is this epitomized more than in the story of Etta Jones, an Alaska school teacher who...
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Judith Kleinfeld
Studies show males to be more fragile than females
FAIRBANKS – When we see a tall, muscular guy, able to lift and carry heavy weights, run fast up the stairs or run the Yukon Quest, we think of men as the stronger sex. We confuse stronger ...
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David B. Offer
Community Features
Shellie Severa, a cancer survivor and wife of Kevin Haywood, a North Pole Fire Department captain, designed and made this special quilt to add to the St. Baldrick’s Foundation fund for cancer research. Image courtesy of Shellie Severa Quilt added to St. Baldrick firefighters' fundraising effort
FAIRBANKS – Who is St. Baldrick? In truth he’s not a canonized saint but a fictional persona dreamed up by two creative New Yorkers in 1999 to give St. Patrick’s Day a more positive theme ...
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Interior Scrapbook
This Associated Press photo of First Avenue was taken in April of 1941 and accompanied a story on Alaska. The AP calls this “Noon at Fairbanks” and says “Street lights burn in stores at Fairbanks, Alaska, all day long during short wintery days when the sun hangs close to the horizon and is dimmed by atmosphere. An American ‘Burma Road’ may be built to Fairbanks, from Seattle, if legislation now before Congress is passed.” Guess it must have passed! —Candy Waugaman
This Associated Press photo of First Avenue was taken in April of 1941 and accompanied a story on Alaska. The AP calls this “Noon at Fairbanks” and says “Street lights burn in stores at Fairbanks, Alaska, all day long during short wintery days when the sun hangs close to the horizon and is dimmed by atmosphere. An American ‘Burma Road’ may be built to Fairbanks, from Seattle, if legislation now before Congress is passed.” Guess it must have passed! —Candy Waugaman
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According to the Associated Press caption on this photograph, “This helicopter view of the Alaska 67 Centennial Exposition grounds shows part of the 42-acre site, two miles west of downtown Fairbanks. The $5 million complex includes a mining valley, pioneer boom town, a Native village, riverboat, narrow gauge railway and a civic center featuring a display of Alaskan art.” Today, what is now called Pioneer Park has been enhanced with additions such as an aviation museum, a pioneer life museum, a salmon bake and the railroad car used by President Warren G. Harding when he visited Alaska in 1923. —Candy Waugaman
According to the Associated Press caption on this photograph, “This helicopter view of the Alaska 67 Centennial Exposition grounds shows part of the 42-acre site, two miles west of downtown Fairbanks. The $5 million complex includes a mining valley, pioneer boom town, a Native village, riverboat, narrow gauge railway and a civic center featuring a display of Alaskan art.” Today, what is now called Pioneer Park has been enhanced with additions such as an aviation museum, a pioneer life museum, a salmon bake and the railroad car used by President Warren G. Harding when he visited Alaska in 1923. —Candy Waugaman
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This early aerial photo postcard of the University of Alaska campus was taken by Becker Photo and mailed Oct. 6, 1936. The message on the postcard says “I am still trying to get some knowledge this time at the University of Alaska here. Enrolled a week ago. Like it fine.” Today’s university would fill the frame of this photograph. —Candy Waugaman
This early aerial photo postcard of the University of Alaska campus was taken by Becker Photo and mailed Oct. 6, 1936. The message on the postcard says “I am still trying to get some knowledge this time at the University of Alaska here. Enrolled a week ago. Like it fine.” Today’s university would fill the frame of this photograph. —Candy Waugaman
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