Thibodeau calls it a career after 35 years

02/01/11 Guy Thibodeau sat in his office at Juneau-Douglas High School on Monday surrounded by memories of the past.

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Roppel Re-Elected AHFC Board Chair

01/27/11 ANCHORAGE, AK--(Marketwire - 01/27/11) - Alaska Housing Finance Corporation (AHFC) board of directors, at its annual meeting, re-elected Frank Roppel of Wrangell to serve as the board chair. Governor Murkowski appointed Roppel to the board of directors in July 2003, and he has served as chair since that time. Roppel previously served on the Alaska State Housing Authority (ASHA) and AHFC boards ...

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Roppel Re-Elected AHFC Board Chair

01/27/11 ANCHORAGE, AK--(Marketwire - January 27, 2011) - Alaska Housing Finance Corporation (AHFC) board of directors, at its annual meeting, re-elected Frank Roppel of Wrangell to serve as the board chair. Governor Murkowski appointed Roppel to the board of directors in July 2003, and he has served as chair since that time. Roppel previously served on the Alaska State Housing Authority (ASHA) and AHFC ...

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Teryl Resources Receives 2010 Gil Joint Venture Annual Report From Kinross Gold Corporation

01/24/11 VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - 01/24/11) - Teryl Resources Corp. (TSX-V: TRC - News )(OTC.BB: TRYLF - News ) wishes to announce the receipt of the 2010 Gil Joint Venture Annual Report. The goal of the 2010 Gil program was to further delineate the strike extension of the mineralized zones, and to infill between step-out holes, in order to gain a better understanding of ore-zone ...

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Teryl Resources Receives 2010 Gil Joint Venture Annual Report From Kinross Gold Corporation

01/24/11 VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Jan. 24, 2011) - Teryl Resources Corp. (TSX VENTURE:TRC)(OTCBB:TRYLF) wishes to announce the receipt of the 2010 Gil Joint Venture Annual Report. The goal of the 2010 Gil program was to further delineate the strike extension of the mineralized zones, and to infill between step-out holes, in order to gain a better understanding of ore-zone continuity ...

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Matters to Contemplate: May miners' advocate Bob Hopper rest in peace

01/21/11 Arriving in Dayton January 5, we received sad news: Bob Hopper, the best man at our wedding 42+years ago, had passed away. Bob co-owned the Bunker Hill Mine in Kellogg, Idaho, founded in 1885, producing lead, silver and zinc.

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May miners' advocate Bob Hopper rest in peace

01/19/11 Upon arriving home from a long vacation Jan. 5, we received sad news: Bob Hopper, the best man at our wedding more than 42 years ago, had passed away. Bob co-owned the Bunker Hill Mine in Kellogg, Idaho, founded in 1885, producing lead, silver and zinc.

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Verdiene Cordelle Zenger, 82

01/17/11 Wasilla resident, Verdiene Cordelle Zenger, 82, died on Jan. 9, 2011, at Mat-Su Regional Medical Center in Palmer, Alaska. She was born Oct. 9, 1928, in Albany, Ore., to George Bernard Lucht and Adeline Ashe Lucht.

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Trapper reappointed to BLM advisory council

01/08/11 Mike McDougall, a trapper from Eagle, was reappointed to an advisory council that makes recommendations to the Bureau of Land Management on public land issues in Alaska. McDougall was one of seven ...

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Wild plants brewed into herbal teas

01/07/11 Arts and crafts classes are held every week at the Jackson home in Bard. Catherine Fletcher-Gilbert shares her skills in basket weaving, tea making and plant picking. She's also happy to lead plant-picking walks. For more information, call 1-928-502-0379 or 1-760-572-2595.

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Saltsburg hires officer in charge for police department

01/07/11 Saltsburg Borough Council brought in the New Year by finding new leadership for its part-time police department, hiring Gary Walker, 52, as officer in charge of the department at a starting salary of $1,600 per month.

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Southeast history: A ginseng farm near Wrangell

01/05/11 Flipping through vitamin catalogues most of us seem to find in our mail boxes, we've seen ads for ginseng - a traditional Chinese medicine adopted by many people in the U.S. Where do all the roots come from to make the tinctures, pills, and teas? At one time, from Southeast Alaska.

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Writers on the Range: Celebrating the 30th anniversary of protecting huge swaths of land

01/02/11 Not many people realize it, but this December marked the 30th anniversary of America's biggest parks act, the 1980 Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, which protected nearly two Utahs'-worth of Alaskan lands. Copyright 2011 Summit Daily News. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Summit Daily News ...

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Handful of new laws to take effect in Alaska

12/30/10 (AP:JUNEAU, Alaska) Starting in the new year, foster youth will have the option of state support for an extra year, limits will be placed on forced overtime for nurses and heirs of residents who die after June 29 will be able to make claims on their Alaska Permanent Fund dividends.

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Southeast Reflections: 2010

12/29/10 Compiling a "year in review" for all of Southeast Alaska is a lot like coming up with a story budget for a given issue of the Capital City Weekly: we always know that we're missing a lot.

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Remote Alaska town of McCarthy to get Internet, wired phone access

12/28/10 VALDEZ, Alaska - The tiny town of McCarthy in the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve will finally get broadband Internet and wired telephone service if a proposal is approved by the Nati...

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A pioneer's Christmas feast: Stuffed beaver, bog cranberry relish, and duff for dessert

12/22/10 Today Christmas dinner and turkey go together in many people's minds. But turkeys are not an Alaskan bird, so what did early cooks do for the holidays?

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Wildlife biologists to study bats in Southeast Alaska

11/13/10 JUNEAU, Alaska - The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is undergoing a pilot study on bat behavior through the Wildlife Diversity Program. "We know very little about bats here," said Karen Blej...

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Native American Heritage Month lectures continue

11/11/10 Sealaska Heritage Institute's lunchtime lecture series continues this week, with "Un-silencing the Past: Reassessing American Military Relations with the Tlingit in 1869." Led by SHI Archivist Zachary Jones, also an adjunct instructor of history at UAS, the lecture will focus on American military relations with the Tlingit in 1869, a violent year in Southeast Alaska. Numerous conflicts between ...

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VA Outreach Clinic honored to serve veterans

11/11/10 Today is a day for everyone whom has gone forth to serve his or her country. Yet the new Veterans Affairs Outreach Clinic in the Juneau Federal Building downtown sees every day as a day for retired servicemen and women.

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