ALASKA'S NEWSPAPER

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Alaska-based soldiers headed for Afghanistan

Brigade Deployment Ceremony

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.

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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.

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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

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.

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Operation Bulldog Bite

Photo courtesy MSgt. Roger Sparks

Master Sgt. Roger Sparks talks about the experience of Operation Bulldog Bite in Afghanistan.

Knight's Taxidermy stars in reality TV

Russell Knight and his shop Knight's Taxidermy on Arctic Boulevard in Anchorage have a show on the History Channel called Mounted in Alaska.

Russell Knight and his shop, Knight's Taxidermy on Arctic Boulevard in Anchorage, have a show on the History Channel called Mounted in Alaska.

Anchorage's urban homesteaders

Saskia Esslinger and her husband Matt Oster are doing the Alaska Food Challenge by pledging to eat all Alaskan for a whole year.  They are growing a lot of their own food at their urban homestead in midtown Anchorage in addition to supporting local farmers.

Saskia Esslinger and her husband Matt Oster are doing the Alaska Food Challenge by pledging to eat all Alaskan for a whole year. They are growing a lot of their own food at their urban homestead in midtown Anchorage in addition to supporting local farmers.

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Welcome to Talkeetna

Take a look around Talkeetna, Alaska, during the busy summer tourist season. Kim Hoiby, employee of Nagley's General Store, talks about the character of the quirky town.

Red, White and Blue Crew Marching Band

The Red, White and Blue Crew marching band practiced on Thursday, June 30, 2011 at Service High School to prepare for the Anchorage July 4th parade.

Husky social hour

Huskies

Husky social hour takes place three times a week at the Matanuska-Susitna Borough Animal Care Facility near Palmer for the dogs rescued from a breeder in January.

Memorial Day

Sharon Long placed roses on the boots during the fallen warrior ceremony at the Memorial Day ceremony on the Park Strip on Monday, May 28, 2012. Long's son Grant Fraser died in Iraq, while serving in the Marine Corp. The ceremony commemorated the 70th Anniversary of the World War II attack at Dutch Harbor.

Honoring World War II Vets.

Motocross

Racers competed in wet and muddy conditions during State Race #2 of Alaska Racing Lions State Motocross Series on Sunday, May 27, 2012, at Jodhpur Track in Kincaid Park.

Racers competed in wet and muddy conditions during State Race #2 of Alaska Racing Lions State Motocross Series on Sunday, May 27, 2012, at Jodhpur Track in Kincaid Park.

State Soccer

West Valley Vs. South High in the State Championship soccer game on Saturday, May 26, 2012 at Dimond High. The South High girls won the state championship with a score of 4 to 0.

State soccer championships at Chugiak High on Thursday, May 24, 2012.

Bike Hill Climb

The Arctic Bicycle Club's Clark's Road Hill Climb on Friday, May 25, 2012. Racers started at Potter Marsh and the new riders finished at the fire station and experienced riders continued up Clark's Road.

The Arctic Bicycle Club's Clark's Road Hill Climb.

Sled Dog Rides

Raymie Redington drives the dog cart with tourists Maria Eugenia Rivero and Juan Provencal, from Mexico City, at the Iditarod Headquarters in Wasilla, AK. Raymie and Barb Redington give sled dog rides at the Iditarod Headquarters in Wasilla, AK on Wednesday, May 16, 2012. The Redington's are at the headquarters 7 days a week from 9 am to 5 p.m. weather permitting.

Iditarod Headquarters in Wasilla, Sled Dog Rides.

Alaska cabins

Location: Lynn Canal, Haines, 8/07/08 Over looking the fishing grounds on Lynn Canal.Haines,AK

Share photos of what you love most about your cabin; bonus for any outhouses that make it into your submissions.

Reader-submitted: 2012 Bicycling

Location: Anchorage, 04/18/2011 Three-wheeling Bud!

Share photos of your races, rides, tricks or even your favorite bike.

READER-SUBMITTED

Alaska birds

Location: Parks Hwy  Northern Hawk Owl

Alaska is home to hundreds of different migrating bird species and readers have posted hundreds of their bird-watching finds. Share your photos.

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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