Skagway
web-posted Wednesday, May 1, 2013
SKAGWAY - Scientists, technicians and Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park managers have taken a long look at natural, cultural and historic resources in their care and summarized their findings in a first-of-its kind "State of the Park" report.
web-posted Wednesday, May 1, 2013
It's almost time to see couples wading down the streets of downtown Southeast Alaska towns, wearing matching safari clothes, holding large bright red bags stuffed with T-shirts, miniature totem poles, more T-shirts, boxes of fudge. They're herded onto buses weighted with cameras and brochures to places like the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center. The lucky, privileged or smart ones may opt for a more adventurous endeavor: Helicopter tours.
web-posted Wednesday, April 24, 2013
She knows who you are - you went into labor on the deck, tossed into the drunk tank, smuggled a dog onto the solarium, travel to Kake every other week, eat more ketchup than fries. She knows about you, Lavina Sargent does. She knows because she worked as a purser for the Alaska Marine Highway System for close to three decades.
web-posted Wednesday, April 17, 2013
The 27th Annual International Folk Festival in Skagway will be at 7 p.m. on Saturday April 20th at the First Presbyterian Church on the corner of Main and 5th Avenues.
web-posted Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Wednesday, April 10 • Centennial Hall
web-posted Wednesday, April 3, 2013
April marks the 8th anniversary for all SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) campuses going tobacco-free! On April 1, 2005, SEARHC made all of its facilities and grounds around the region tobacco-free. Asking employees, patients, and visitors not to use tobacco at the facilities or on the campuses, displays SEARHC's commitment to protecting and improving health. Since this policy took effect, people are protected from secondhand smoke and employees have been supported to quit tobacco.
web-posted Wednesday, April 3, 2013
This year's schedule for the Alaska Folk Festival
web-posted Wednesday, March 27, 2013
It used to be that paying for sex was not that big of a deal. Right here, in Southeast Alaska.
web-posted Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park (NHP) announces the artists selected for the Artist in Residency (AIR) program. Cassandra Loomis, from Annandale, Virginia, is joined by Canadian artists Kara Sievewright and Nicole Bauberger to participate in this international program. Loomis, an illustrator with a passion for traveling, stated that she's honored at being selected to participate in the AIR program.
web-posted Wednesday, March 20, 2013
When you're in the office of Buckwheat - the Buckwheat of Southeast Alaska, a regional celebrity of sorts, you don't decline a diet Mountain Dew. Why not? Clearly you haven't met the guy if you're asking.
web-posted Wednesday, March 13, 2013
The bush attracts people... a simple enough statement on its face. Short and sweet, as my father used to say. The most hard-headed realist among us would hardly argue it and yet in the poet's ear those same few words might kick off any manner of meandering philosophical quest. Lest we slide too far toward the mystical ourselves, let's agree that all places attract people. At least there isn't any place that I know of that hasn't attracted some people. There is, after all, hardly a place on our planet that some folks haven't claimed as their own and it's only our own (temporary) ignorance showing any time we look out over some barren landscape and think, "Who the heck would ever want to live there?"
web-posted Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Judd Davis isn't stupid. Neither is his food.
web-posted Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Elizabeth Peratrovich is the face behind the civil rights movement in Alaska. Strong. Beautiful. Visionary.
web-posted Wednesday, January 30, 2013
The 7.5 earthquake on Jan. 5 of this year caused quite a commotion, with people waking in moving beds and sounds of things falling, rooms seeming to sway. Although Craig was the nearest to the quake off-shore, in Southeast it was Wrangell that took the brunt of the damage. People who subscribe to GCI's services lost their internet, telephone and television. The fiber optic cables, that made those services possible, had broken. Rumors flew around town. GCI funded free videos at City Market. What about all those football fans and the playoff games? Bars opened to provide coverage. Friends joined friends with alternate TV providers for the collegiate playoffs.
