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Living & Growing: This season brings hope

Living & Growing: This season brings hope

This Easter season let us observe and recognize and look with optimism at hope.

  • Apr 12, 2020
  • Donna Leigh For the Juneau Empire
Living & Growing: This season brings hope
Living & Growing: You never know what a kind gesture will do

Living & Growing: You never know what a kind gesture will do

Keep on helping.

  • Apr 4, 2020
  • By Guy Crockroft For the Juneau Empire
Living & Growing: You never know what a kind gesture will do
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Thank you letters for March 29, 2020.

Thank you, merci, danke, gracias, gunalchéesh.

  • Mar 29, 2020
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Middle school students do well in statewide contest

Middle school students do well in statewide contest

Floyd Dryden Middle School’s sixth-grade team placed second in statewide contest.

Middle school students do well in statewide contest
Larry and Laura Rorem. (Courtesy photo)

Living & Growing: The blessings of meaningful communication

Social media should not replace the blessings of meaningful conversation.

  • Mar 29, 2020
  • By Pastor Larry Rorem and Laura Rorem For the Juneau Empire
Larry and Laura Rorem. (Courtesy photo)
“After studying a few YouTube demonstrations, the average male should be able to achieve a passable man bun. If he wears a striking necktie as a conversation piece and keeps the light low in his living room during those teleconferences, he might be able to pull it off.” (Courtesy Photo | Unsplash)

Gimme A Smile: The man bun comes into its own

It’s important to remember that this time of worry and sacrifice won’t last forever.

  • Mar 28, 2020
  • By Peggy McKee Barnhill For the Juneau Empire
“After studying a few YouTube demonstrations, the average male should be able to achieve a passable man bun. If he wears a striking necktie as a conversation piece and keeps the light low in his living room during those teleconferences, he might be able to pull it off.” (Courtesy Photo | Unsplash)
Gimme A Smile: Imagine life with no newspapers

Gimme A Smile: Imagine life with no newspapers

I’m doing a rerun today. This was the very first essay I ever published in the Juneau Empire, on Sunday, April 12, 2009. I know… Continue reading

  • Mar 27, 2020
  • By Peggy McKee Barnhill For the Juneau Empire
Gimme A Smile: Imagine life with no newspapers
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Compassion knows no ‘other’

“Hit pause, take a deep breath, and reflect on how we want to be remembered.”

  • Mar 18, 2020
  • By Patricia Turner Custard
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Thank you letters for March 8, 2020.

Thank you letters for March 8, 2020.

Thank you, merci, danke, gracias, gunalchéesh.

  • Mar 14, 2020
Thank you letters for March 8, 2020.
Living & Growing: I was not alone during my scary walk in the dark

Living & Growing: I was not alone during my scary walk in the dark

“God is with me. I am not alone.”

  • Mar 8, 2020
  • By Dan Wiese For the Juneau Empire
Living & Growing: I was not alone during my scary walk in the dark
Thank you letters for March 8, 2020.

Thank you letters for March 8, 2020.

Thank you, merci, danke, gracias, gunalchéesh.

  • Mar 8, 2020
Thank you letters for March 8, 2020.
Thank you letters for March 1, 2020.

Thank you letters for March 1, 2020.

Thank you, merci, danke, gracias, gunalchéesh.

  • Mar 5, 2020
Thank you letters for March 1, 2020.
Larry and Laura Rorem. (Courtesy photo)

Living & Growing: The blessings of meaningful communication

All people need food, shelter, love, relationship and understanding.

  • Feb 23, 2020
  • By Larry and Laura Rorem For the Juneau Empire
Larry and Laura Rorem. (Courtesy photo)

Local Mathletes compete in 2020 regional math contest

Six Mathletes are headed to state in March.

Neighbors recognition for the week of Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020

Recognizing Juneau’s youth.

  • Feb 23, 2020
Slack Tide: When I’m 44

Slack Tide: When I’m 44

As birthdays go, it’s not exactly a milestone.

  • Feb 23, 2020
Slack Tide: When I’m 44
Thank you letters for Feb. 23, 2020

Thank you letters for Feb. 23, 2020

Thank you, merci, danke.

  • Feb 23, 2020
Thank you letters for Feb. 23, 2020

Auke Bay biz receives sustainable certification, Four As gets new executive director

Neighbors recognitions for the week of Feb. 16, 2020.

  • Feb 16, 2020

Auto transport offers student scholarship

Neighbors news in brief.

Slack Tide: Let’s Get Plowed

Slack Tide: Let’s Get Plowed

To characterize how I once spent my winters as merely “shoveling snow” would be a misnomer.

  • Feb 10, 2020
  • By Geoff Kirsch For the Juneau Empire
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Slack Tide: Let’s Get Plowed