The Alaska State Troopers responded to the Fairbanks Farmers Market on Wednesday after receiving a report of a body there. When troopers and EMS arrived at the scene and AST opened an investigation, they found that the deceased, identified as 62-year-old Paul Koehler, had died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Koehler’s remains were sent to the […]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3, 2017 – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has proclaimed Aug. 6-13 to be National Farmers Market Week. This is the eighteenth year USDA has supported local producers by encouraging families to meet, and buy from, the farmers and other vendors at their local farmers market. The proclamation Perdue signed notes farmers markets […]