Officials at the Nenana Ice Classic, the annual spring break up guessing game held in interior Alaska, have announced that they have completed counting all of the tickets submitted, and report that a grand total of 25 winners guest the correct time that the clock was tripped in the game. The number of winners at […]
The National Transportation Safety Board was notified after an aircraft incident that took place near Meadow Lakes Drive on Sunday afternoon. It was on Sunday afternoon than 58-year-old Edward T. Merren took off from the grassy airstrip. After takeoff, and as he was beginning to gain altitude a strong cross wind hit the areaand pushed […]
Quuq; Nuya’itstaq – Hide and Seek Uswillraraat quuq’rtut. – The children are playing hide and seek. (Click sentence to hear Alutiiq words spoken) Hide and seek is one of many popular outdoor children’s games long played in Alutiiq communities. According to anthropologist Kaj Birket-Smith, who visited the Chugach Alutiiq people in the 1930s, children […]
TOOLIK FIELD STATION — After 800-plus miles by snowmachine and three weeks of working in the same clothes, it’s time to pack our duffel bags, stuff them into a barrel and set them on fire. Just kidding about the burn barrel, but three lake studiers and I returned last night to the slushy snow of […]