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Officials plan ski resort expansion
GIRDWOOD: Meeting was held to plot next step, look for development dollars.

(Published: October 8, 2003)
Girdwood community activists met with city and state officials Tuesday to outline plans to expand the ski resort there and figure out how best to get developers interested in the project.

Chugach withdraws rate request
REFUNDS COMING: It had sought postponement of mandated changes.

(Published: October 8, 2003)
Chugach Electric Association has withdrawn an earlier request for an Alaska Superior Court judge to postpone rate changes mandated by a state regulatory commission, clearing the way for big refunds and lower rates to its wholesale customers and higher rates for Anchorage residents and businesses.

Cut phone line curtails business
NO SERVICE: Snipped cable on East 76th costs stores some money.

(Published: October 8, 2003)
Construction on Anchorage's East 76th Avenue cut a phone cable Tuesday morning, leaving more than 200 customers in the business district without phone or Internet service for the day, Alaska Communications Systems said.

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(Published: October 8, 2003)
Anchorage wins over NAAEE

BLM eyes NPR-A oil development
LAND USE: Bureau asks for public's opinion of opening northeast section.

(Published: October 8, 2003)
FAIRBANKS -- The Bureau of Land Management is gathering public comment about proposed land-use plan changes that could allow more oil and gas development on a 4.6-million-acre portion of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

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