Sprouting from your head at the rate of more than three inches a year, hair is a recorder of the things you eat and drink… Continue reading
Master gardener training that begins Feb. 7 in Juneau will teach participants how to design, plant, and maintain a successful garden in Southeast Alaska. Classes… Continue reading
Here’s an assortment of winter observations that gave pleasure to some trail-walkers. • Late November, Eaglecrest. Parks and Rec hikers on snowshoes went up the… Continue reading
It was more than a decade ago that painter Mary Ida Henrikson began her quest for knowledge about fire trees, sparked by a cedar on… Continue reading
It can be intimidating to give books to a bookseller. But that is just what happened one summer when a young man with a shy… Continue reading
“I have heard that the huge releases of hatchery pink and chum salmon are seriously reducing food for king and coho salmon. It would seem… Continue reading
Deep within Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, staff at a remote ranger station on the north shore of Telaquana Lake noted something amiss. Wolves,… Continue reading
An early memory that I treasure and often revisit is of when I was about eight years old and I was staying with my grandparents… Continue reading
Juneau-based poet Emily Wall has been working on a book of birth poems for six years. She collected birth stories from as many different people… Continue reading
Juneau Public Libraries is one of eight libraries in the United States chosen to host the interactive exhibit “Discover Tech: Engineers Make a World of… Continue reading
While driving our son to school the other day my husband asked me “Why are you going this way?” No matter the time of day,… Continue reading
Amber Frommherz has been promoted to head the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska Head Start program, the council announced Jan.… Continue reading
Andy Wink, a seafood economist for the McDowell Group, is leaving the group to form his own firm. Wink’s new firm, Wink Research & Consulting,… Continue reading
The University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service will offer pesticide applicator certification training Jan. 30 to Feb. 1 to communities across Alaska. The training… Continue reading
Marie Drake Planetarium is Jan. 16 hosting a presentation on gravitational waves. Gravitational waves were predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity in 1916 but… Continue reading
Recent births at Bartlett Regional Hospital: • On Jan. 2, a daughter, Fathom Mae Jarvill, weighing 8 pounds, 4 ounces, was born to Bonnin and… Continue reading
The U.S. Forest Service announced a change of schedule for the first Fireside Lecture at Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center. Photographer Mark Kelley is not able… Continue reading
In September of 2014, my girlfriend MC and I met a First Nations man at a gas station in the Yukon village of Teslin. We… Continue reading
Want to influence Alaska’s hunting regulations? The Alaska Board of Game has called for proposed changes to hunting and trapping rules for Southeast and Southcentral… Continue reading
Over the course of the last 45 years, Juneau author, contractor and fisherman Eric Forrer has published a novel (“From the Nets of a Salmon… Continue reading
