Recent Stories
- Spring means Athletes in Action baseball players need seasonal homes
- Saturday, May 10, 2008
- Every year about this time I get an e-mail from Don Duke, who has come out of hibernation, and wants me to put in a plug for the Athletes in Action baseball team members who will need a place to stay this summer.
- 'Remember the Alamo' has personal meaning for NP resident
- Saturday, May 3, 2008
- I don’t know about the younger generation, but all of us Baby Boomers grew up singing about Davy Crockett — King of the Wild Frontier.
- First Friday to feature Fairbanks Watercolor Society artists
- Saturday, April 26, 2008
- North Pole Art Society promises another great First Friday event this Friday when members of Fairbanks Watercolor Society show their work at the North Pole Grange Gallery.
- Prepare to ‘Walk on the Wild Side’ with the North Pole Rotary’s fundraiser
- Saturday, April 19, 2008
- Every year about this time, the Rotary puts together a great fundraiser with the enticing name “A Walk on the Wild Side.”
- Taste of North Pole and UAF Day to be held next Saturday
- Saturday, April 12, 2008
- Boys and Girls Club is in peril; Google Maps covers North Pole; North Pole planning commissioner sought; Summer festival plans in progress; NPHS Talent Show to be held Friday; Life is taxing
- Mayor Isaacson reveals North Pole’s 'state of the city' to seniors
- Saturday, April 5, 2008
- North Pole is a city of traditions, which shouldn’t be a surprise considering the town is wallowing in the traditions of Christmas.
- North Pole Worship Center dedicates new church in BeaverBrook Mall
- Saturday, March 29, 2008
- On March 14, there were enough religious leaders in North Pole to constitute a convention of piety.
- North Pole buzzing for early Easter
- Saturday, March 22, 2008
- Easter is really early this year. The last time it was in the third week of March was in 1913 and the last time it was on March 22 was 1818.
- Opportunity to meet world record-holding balloonist floats in
- Saturday, March 15, 2008
- Sometimes life can be so strange. You think about a cousin you haven’t talked to in five years, and 10 minutes later she calls. Or one day you talk about something unusual — say biscotti — and the next day, out of the blue, someone brings you a box.
- Alex once again reminds us of the important things in life
- Saturday, March 8, 2008
- Last summer, I did a story on the great job a group of GVEA workers did when they removed some nasty cottonwoods from our yard. In order to get one of them to agree to be interviewed, I had to promise to do another story on our Alex.