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Alaska State Fair, 2011

Julian Kristek, 7, of Palmer holds his Pekin duck at left and Caleb Glasser, 8, of Palmer holds his Brahma chicken during the 4-H Small Fry Showmanship competition in the barn at the Alaska State Fair. The Alaska State Fair was well attended on its final day, Labor Day, September 5, 2011.

The Alaska State Fair.

Fair-ly Great Pumpkins

Giant pumpkins are delivered for the weigh-off Wednesday August 31, 2011 at the Alaska State Fair.

PHOTO GALLERY

State fair rodeo

Alaska State Fair Prep

Wayne Vandre of Anchorage examines an entry while judging honey for the Alaska State Fair Wednesday morning August 24, 2011 in Palmer. If you see bee legs, then you know it hasn't been filtered, he joked. Taste, appearance, sugar and water content were among the criteria he used for awarding ribbons. It's a sweet job!, he concluded. The fair opens Thursday and runs through September 5, Labor Day.

Final preparations are made for opening day of the Alaska State Fair Wednesday, August 24, 2011 in Palmer.

Giant Cabbage Weigh Off

The 2010 Alaska State Fair Cabbage Weigh Off.

2010 Alaska State Fair

2010 Alaska State Fair Rodeo

A bull leaves a junior bull rider in the dirt. The Alaska State Fair rodeo began Saturday, August 28 and continues Sunday at 2 p.m.

2010 Faces of the Alaska State Fair

Dale Marshall of Anchorage set a new state record for his giant pumpkin entry at the Alaska State Fair on Wednesday, September 1, 2010. His weighed in at 1,101 pounds.

2010 Alaska State Fair's final weekend

Hamilton Norris, of Wasilla, gets rest in a stall next to Miss Piggy at the Alaska State Fair barn on Saturday, September 5, 2009. Miss Piggy had given birth to eleven piglets in the middle of the night prior. Norris kept watch over the scene which was busy with curious fair-goers.

Clear summer weather drew thousands to the Alaska State Fair in its final weekend.

2009 Alaska State Fair

A gerbil is ready to dash to the edge of the wheel and dive into a colored hole at the Elks Rat Race booth at the Alaska State Fair in Palmer on Saturday August 29, 2009. The fair runs through September 7th.

It's that time of the year: high school seniors celebrate the end of their tenure and begin to embark on the next stage of their long lives. Show off your accomplishment and see who else flipped the tassel.

Send us your 2012 high school grad photo

Reader-submitted: 2012 UAA Grad

Another college class graduating into the real world. Post a photo of your special graduate and see others.

Send us your 2012 UAA grad photo

RSVP: May 2012

Location: Bagram, Afghanistan, 05/01/2012 CW2 Clinton K. Brown III of the Alaska Army National Guard with President Obama 1 May 2012 in Bagram, Afghanistan

Submit your photos from community projects and social occasions around town in May, 2012.

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Reader submitted: Mom and me

Location: AK Run for Women, June 2011 My momma and I at the Alaska Run for Women, breast cancer awareness, June 2011. I love you mom! Happy Momma's day.

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2011 Mom and me gallery

Reader submitted: Alaska dogs

Location: White Mountain, 5/18/2007 Jace Kaden Gray watching over the frozen Fish River

Reader submitted dog photographs.

Snowmachines

2012 Bear sightings: Reader-submitted

Reader submitted: 2012 Aurora Borealis

RSVP: April 2012

Alaska Spring 2012:Reader-submitted

RSVP March 2012

Reader submitted: 2012 Iditarod

Reader submitted: Fur Rondy 2012

Moose sightings

2011/12 Alaska winter

RSVP: February 2012

RSVP: January - 2012

Cordova snowstorm

January Valdez snowstorm

Frosty Alaskans

Best of 2011: Reader-submitted

Slideshows

Alaska-based soldiers headed for Afghanistan

Brigade commander Col. Morris Goins addresses his troops and guests at a U.S. Army Alaska deployment ceremony for the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division Tuesday morning November 29, 2011 at Sullivan Arena. The 3,500-soldier brigade will be departing for Afghanistan on a series of flights in November and December.

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW

Food Bank of Alaska Thanksgiving Blessing

The Food Bank of Alaska Thanksgiving Blessing project is a community-wide effort to provide turkeys and all the fixings to everyone in need on one day, Monday, Nov. 21, 2011, from seven locations and is expected to provide enough food to feed around 7,000 families.

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW

Southcentral Power Project

Project manager Dustin Highers discusses the Southcentral Power Project located at the Chugach Electric Association headquarters off International Airport Road in Anchorage.

Touring the Goose Creek Correctional Center

Corrections commissioner Joe Schmidt describes the new Goose Creek Correctional Center slated to begin accepting prisoners in March of 2012 at Point MacKenzie.

AUDIO SLIDE SHOW

Operation Bulldog Bite