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10 YEARS AGO

September 2, 1998 — The National Weather Service has confirmed what many in Fairbanks already suspected — the summer of 1998 was a wet one. So wet, in fact, that the town has seen only one other season like it in almost a century of record-keeping. And while Tuesday’s clouds might hit at more of the same for autumn, forecasters predict a drier, albeit cooler, September. Of the 90 brief days in an Interior summer, rain fell on 78 of them this year, according to the weather service.

25 YEARS AGO

September 2, 1983 — Borough Mayor Bill Allen will not veto a $1 million supplemental school appropriation by the borough assembly, even though the school board is not including specific program cost information on a survey of community desires for education. Allen threatened a veto of any additional local support for education unless the board included cost information for use by survey respondents in rating education programs.

50 YEARS AGO

September 2, 1958 — School year 1958-59 opened at 8 a.m. today for approximately 190 members of the professional staff of the Fairbanks school system when they met for a reunion breakfast in the Lathrop High School cafeteria. The teachers, administrators and nurses were greeted by James C. Ryan, superintendent of schools, who opened his talk by noting that he was addressing the largest Fairbanks teaching staff ever, and that this was the eighth consecutive year he had prefaced his opening remarks with this statement.

75 YEARS AGO

September 2, 1933 — Tonight marks the close of the Tanana Valley State Fair, one of the most successful from every standpoint of the nine that have been held in this city. For this evening, a delightful program has been arranged. Stage entertainment of exceptional merit, under direction of Prof. Ryan, will be given, and then there will be a free dance in the auditorium.