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The sky is the limit for kids on Fairbanks Aviation Day
FAIRBANKS — An up and coming crop of future pilots took to the air under sunny blue skies Saturday during Fairbanks Aviation Day at Fairbanks International Airport. An enthusiastic Ryan Schmidt, 1...
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Contractor sues Fred Meyer for failed remodel
FAIRBANKS — A general contractor that was fired from a disastrous remodeling project at the West Fairbanks Fred Meyer store has sued the company for more than $5 million, claiming it was victimized...
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Red ribbons with messages written on them hang from a tree in memory of lost loved ones during the annual Fairbanks Heart Walk in Veteran s Memorial Park downtown Saturday morning, May 19, 2012. Eric Engman/News-Miner
Fairbanks Heart Walk surpasses expectations
FAIRBANKS — Under the warm morning sun Saturday, people released their grips on dozens of red and white balloons. As they floated higher and higher, tails whipping in the breeze, more than a few te...
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First year Hutchison High School English teacher Alysa Loring monitors the hallway in between classes on the last day of school Friday morning, May 18, 2012. Eric Engman/News-Miner
First-year Fairbanks teachers survive the school year
FAIRBANKS — The students bent over their final exams in concentration, scattered around the classroom in the few remaining desks. The other desks were stacked along the wall next to the piles of un...
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Looking back in Fairbanks — May 20
10 YEARS AGO May 20, 2002 — Old buildings may not talk, but they can leave clues. Sunday afternoon a section of the New York Times, dated Sept. 15, 1929, was found sticking out of a log round in ...
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Denali Highway open for the season
FAIRBANKS — The Denali Highway is open. The 135-mile road connecting the Parks and Richardson highways opened for the season Tuesday, according to Meadow Bailey, public information officer for the...
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Team of soldiers climbing Mount McKinley
FAIRBANKS — A team of six soldiers from the Northern Warfare Training Center at Fort Wainwright began climbing Mount McKinley Thursday. The group is broken into two, three-man teams led by Maj. Ga...
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Man riding bike allegedly assaulted, robbed
FAIRBANKS — A man riding a bicycle early Thursday morning behind the Fairbanks police station was beaten up and had his bicycle stolen by a man, a woman and a teenage boy, according to Fairbanks po...
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Helen Snedden, wife of C.W. Snedden and Fairbanks local philanthropist, dies at 96
FAIRBANKS — Throughout her long, active life Helen Snedden, 96, never drew attention to herself. Described by friends as a “brilliant” but very private person, she was content to walk in the shadow...
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Sports
The Alaska Club Zumba instructors get the crowd warmed up during the annual Fairbanks Heart Walk in Veteran s Memorial Park downtown Saturday morning, May 19, 2012. Eric Engman/News-Miner
Monroe Catholic’s Fifield wins 3 of 4 events, named outstanding athlete
FAIRBANKS — Monroe Catholic’s Micala Fifield was named the Class 1A-2A-3A’s most outstanding athlete at the Alaska Schools Activities Association/First National Bank Alaska State Track and Field Ch...
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West Valley s Sarah Swanson competes in the finals of the 4A Girls Shot Put event on the second and final day of competition during the Alaska School Activities Association/First National Bank Alaska State Track and Field Championships Saturday, May 19, 2012 at Lathrop High School in Fairbanks, Alaska. Eric Engman/News-Miner
Bartlett brings 4, earns 4 individual firsts at 4A girls track championships
FAIRBANKS — The Bartlett Golden Bears only brought four girls to the Alaska Schools Activities Association/First National Bank Alaska State Track and Field Championships at Lathrop High School, but...
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1A-2A-3A Boys 100 Meter Dash competitors (from left) Ninilchik s Dakota Peterson, Nikiski s Stephen Hartley and Sayyid Parrish, Eielson s Scott Delauder, Delta s Donovan Drew, Haines s Devin Light, Sitka s Jon De LaCruz, and Monroe s Dominick Mariutto, burst out of the starting blocks on the second and final day of competition during the Alaska School Activities Association/First National Bank Alaska State Track and Field Championships Saturday, May 19, 2012 at Lathrop High School in Fairbanks, Alaska. Eric Engman/News-Miner
Newcomers help Ravens to fourth-place finish at championship
FAIRBANKS — Head coach David Dyer, like in any season, welcomed newcomers this year to the Eielson High School track and field team. On Saturday at Lathrop, newcomers accounted for two of the Rave...
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Wolfpack soccer teams use Senior Night boost to sweep Lathrop
FAIRBANKS—The West Valley boys and girls soccer teams tuned up for next week’s high school state tournaments by posting identical 1-0 victories against Lathrop Saturday night at West Valley. A lar...
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Lathrop s Kyle Hanson, left, tries to outpace Palmer s Joe Day, right, while running the anchor leg of the 4A Boys 4X800 Meter Relay event on the second and final day of competition during the Alaska School Activities Association/First National Bank Alaska State Track and Field Championships Saturday, May 19, 2012 at Lathrop High School in Fairbanks, Alaska. Eric Engman/News-Miner
Lathrop boys earn second place at state track and field championships
FAIRBANKS — Lathrop’s boys team led in the Class 4A overall standings after Friday’s opening competition of the Alaska Schools Activities Association/First National Bank Alaska State Track and Fiel...
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West Valley Wolfpack sweeps Dimond Lynx in doubleheader
FAIRBANKS—The West Valley Wolfpack swept a nonconference high school softball doubleheader from the Dimond Lynx Saturday at the South Davis Softball Complex. The Wolfpack won the opener 7-6, then ...
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North Star Golf Club gears up for league play
FAIRBANKS — The North Star Golf Club will have organizational meetings this week for its three golf leagues. All league meetings will be at 6 p.m. on Monday through Friday at the North Star Golf C...
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Lathrop, West Valley score high school softball sweeps
FAIRBANKS — The Lathrop Malemutes downed the Colony Knights in a Railbelt Conference high school softball game at the South Davis Fields and came back later for a 9-6 win over the Dimond Lynx in a...
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Eielson’s Mickey Murtiff puts it all on line
FAIRBANKS — Mickey Murtiff was individually responsible for four of the 11th-place Eielson Ravens’ five points in the first day of the Class 1A-2A-3A competition at the Alaska Schools Activities As...
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News-Miner Editorial
Assessing Pebble: EPA’s document doesn’t justify ending the process
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editorial It’s not surprising that the Environmental Protection Agency has concluded that development of the Pebble mine in Southwest Alaska could harm the salmon fish...
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Letters to the Editor
Unfair charges
May 15, 2012 To the editor: Chris Case and I met in our first year apprenticeship class, Local 375. As soon as I met Chris, I knew we would be lifelong friends. Chris is one of the best men I hav...
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P.E. needed
May 15, 2012 To the editor: I am writing to express my disappointment in the decision of the school district administration to cut physical educator positions in our local schools. Eliminating th...
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Trash solutions
Letter to the Editor May 16, 2012 To the editor: In response to letter “Trash offenses” (Letters, May 13): If someone were to press the borough and city to develop a good recycling program, it...
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Re-elect Merdes
Letter to the Editor May 16, 2012 To the editor: Being on the board of directors at Golden Valley Electric Association is a not a financially rewarding venture for any of the directors. It tak...
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Features
News-Miner file photo Waterfront of Chena, 1905. Steamboats include the Seattle No. 3, in foreground.
Where's Chena? Surveyor tracks down location of vanished Alaska gold rush town
FAIRBANKS - It’s hard to believe that over 100 years ago two towns were fighting for Interior Alaska dominance within 10 miles of each other. Only Fairbanks would survive and ultimately thrive and...
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Photo courtesy of the Anchorage Museum Da-ka-xeen Mehner photograph, “My Right-of-Way, Winter 2009.”
Contemporary northern art center stage in exhibit
FAIRBANKS - Certain images always come to mind when thinking of Alaska art. Sweeping landscapes, snowcapped peaks, rugged sourdoughs. A new exhibit at the Anchorage Museum seeks to change that. “...
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Logan Mowry, front, Liam Putman, middle, and Kristan Kelly approach the top of 3,900-foot Sable Pass while biking Sunday on the Denali National Park Road. Tim Mowry/News-Miner
Pedaling Denali: Mowrys plus one find plenty of ground squirrels but no bears
FAIRBANKS — We had only gone about a mile and a half when I realized we had forgotten something. “We didn’t bring the bear spray, did we?” I yelled to my wife, Kristan, who was riding ahead of me....
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Associated Press American TV chef Julia Child shows a salade nicoise she prepared in the kitchen of her vacation home in Grasse, southern France. Child changed the way Americans look at food as well as the way women looked at cooking and themselves.
Julia Child: a legacy of teaching the joy of food
Massaging poultry, dropping food and utensils, and warbling her way through boeuf bourguignon and coq au vin, Julia Child left an indelible mark on American food. As television’s towering, ebullie...
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Photo by Janiene Licciardi Cindy Abbott at the Circle checkpoint during the Yukon Quest 300. Abbott carried the National Organization for Rare Diagnosis banner in her pocket. The Quest 300 was the first race Abbott completed on her way to qualifying for the Iditarod. Photo by Janiene Licciardi Cindy Abbott at the Circle checkpoint during the Yukon Quest 300. Abbott carried the National Organization for Rare Diagnosis banner in her pocket. The Quest 300 was the first race Abbott completed on her way to qualifying for the Iditarod.Photo by Janiene Licciardi Cindy Abbott at the Circle checkpoint during the Yukon Quest 300. Abbott carried the National Organization for Rare Diagnosis banner in her pocket. The Quest 300 was the first race Abbott completed on her way to qualifying for the Iditarod. Photo by Janiene Licciardi
Extreme dream: Cindy Abbott trains for Iditarod to raise awareness of rare disease
FAIRBANKS - It took Cindy Abbott 14 years to learn she had Wegener’s granulomatosis, a rare vascular disease that affects about 1 in 20,000 to 30,000 people. In an attempt to raise awareness abou...
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Steve Bouta, coordinator of exhibitions and design for the Museum of the North, works on the display for photographer Adam Ottavi. Ottavi along with four other Interior artists are featured in videos demonstrating their art and the process behind making it. Sam Harrel/News-Miner
Making art: University of Alaska Museum exhibit focuses on the creative process
FAIRBANKS - Museums are known for being vessels full of art, beautiful places where stunning and thought-provoking works hang on walls or settle on shelves. Mareca Guthrie, fine arts curator at the...
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This photograph of a grizzly bear missing its right front paw was taken last summer near the entrance to Denali National Park and Preserve. The bear reappeared in the same area a few weeks ago. / Photo courtesy of National Park Service
"Tripawed" grizzly makes return appearance at Denali Park
FAIRBANKS — A three-pawed grizzly bear that turned up in Denali National Park and Preserve last summer with a bloody stump for a right, front foot is back, just in time for the start of the tourist...
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Thai meals are inspiring and easy to clean up
FAIRBANKS — As I sat down to write this month’s column, I started thinking about what I’ve been cooking in my own kitchen lately. I’ve been a bachelor for the past few weeks, so I’ve had some eclec...
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Robin Eagleton, 12, a sixth-grader from University Park Elementary School, tests the functions on her team’s craft. Eric Engman/News-Miner
Fairbanks students put their robots to the water test
FAIRBANKS — It took months to assemble the remotely operated vehicles and their controls, but Friday at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Patty Center pool, dozens of elementary school students pu...
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Ernie Jessen’s political cartoon strips illustrate changing times in Alaska history
FAIRBANKS - Born in Seattle in 1890, Ernest “Ernie” Jessen headed north to Alaska at the age of 15 to join his older brother who operated a bakery in Fairbanks. In the course of the next five years...
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Local Columns
Tri-Valley Volunteer Fire Department intern program moving forward
HEALY — Personal donations make up most of the $8,500 raised to date for the Tri-Valley Volunteer Fire Department’s new summer intern program. Promises of additional donations should bring the tot...
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Old books can be put to use
Community Perspective FAIRBANKS — It’s been said that a good book is like a good friend. If that’s true, then I have a lot more friends than the number that shows up on my Facebook page. Our ba...
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