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• After saying no last year, Anchorage voters will decide Tuesday on a ...

  

  Education After saying no last year, Anchorage voters will decide Tuesday on a $58.5M school bond Author: Tegan Hanlon Updated: 13 hours ago Published 1 day ago Principal Nuri Johnsen looks up at water drops falling from a hallway ceiling at Rogers Park Elementary School on Wednesday. (Bill Roth / Alaska Dispatch News)

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• Celebrating Turkish culture in Anchorage

  

  At the Wildberry Theater in Anchorage on a recent Saturday night, Engin Kılıç sharpened a long knife next to leg-sized cone of meat rotating near a flame.

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• Lawmakers Target Hudson Anchorage Proposal

  Bill would strengthen state oversight of river By Brian PJ Cronin The U.S. Coast Guard’s controversial proposal to establish 10 anchorage zones for barges traveling along the Hudson River faces new opposition after state Senator Sue Serino, who represents Philipstown and Beacon, and Didi Barrett, a member of the Assembly whose district includes northern Dutchess County, introduced a bill to strengthen New York’s control of the river. A map of the five barge parking spots proposed between Beacon ..

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• Prop 7 should help park users, property owners on Hillside

  

  However, there are other access points for which there is no maintenance and many other "non-official" access points that cross private property. For us, this would affect areas like McHugh Ridge and Rabbit Lake trailheads; Stewart's and Brewster's Homestead Roads; and possibly Del's Woods, a six-acre, privately owned park of old-growth hemlock forest, which the owner has offered to donate to the municipality (with the intent that it be kept a natural park). Currently, the municipality cannot ..

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• Anchorage's Klie schooled competition on court and in classroom ...

  

  Sports Anchorage’s Klie schooled competition on court and in classroom during DII hoops career Author: Stephan Wiebe Updated: 9 hours ago Published 13 hours ago UC San Diego’s Adam Klie of Anchorage eyes the basket during the West Region championship game against Chico State last month in San Diego. (Photo by Andy Wilhelm courtesy of UC San Diego)

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• Just chillin'

  

  NASA graphic Commentary The northern end of Alaska’s Cook Inlet remained thick with ice on Saturday as the 49th state marched into a chill, snowy April that was a white world away from a year ago. And it wasn’t just the cold dark north, globally the land-ocean temperature index had eased from the 2016 spike. A year ago, Anchorage entered April snow free in the year of the great global warming. The mainstream media, predictably, hyped the snot out of the issue all winter long. “The planet had it..

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• Valley soccer players bring back the snow shovels after recent ...

  

  PALMER — For local soccer programs, the April Fools joke came a few days early this year.Colony High hosted varsity games on March 23, matches believed to be the earliest played outdoors ever in Alaska. The Knights followed with matches on March 24 and 25. Other Valley teams followed Colony’s lead, and added late-March games to their schedules. Players and volunteers in programs throughout the Valley helped make the early-season outdoors matches possible by spending afternoons shoveling any rem..

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• Secret armada holes up on the York at the start of World War I

  

  Five minutes after President Woodrow Wilson signed the declaration of war with Germany on April 6, 1917, the news reached the Atlantic Fleet.It started with a White House usher who watched the president's pen intently, then buzzed a naval aide waiting to wig-wag the neighboring Navy Department with signal flags, Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels recalled after the war. Navy radiomen quickly flashed a terse, 20-word dispatch to every ship and station, and just past 1:30 p.m. the signalmen on Adm. ..

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• Boy Scouts hold annual food drive to help feed the hungry across ...

  

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) Boy Scout Troops filled Fred Meyer stores in Eagle River, the Mat-Su Valley and Anchorage Saturday as part of the annual scouting for food drive, which asks Alaskans to donate non-perishable food items to give to the Food Bank of Alaska. Organizers say this is one of the largest food drives of the year, "often raising 20,000 pounds of food just in Anchorage," Cara Durr, Director of Public Engagement for the Food Bank of Alaska wrote in a news release. The Food Bank of A..

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• Eyewitness: car fire in church parking lot was intentional

  

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) Anchorage police respond to a single vehicle fire Saturday morning in a church parking lot. An eyewitness reported to KTUU about the moments leading up to the fire in the St. Patrick's Parish parking lot. The eyewitness says they saw a man open a truck door and light the vehicle on fire before driving off with other people in a different car. When asked for more information on the incident, the Anchorage Fire Department said those reports are not available for 72 hour..

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