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Snowmachine sightseeing

Riders encounter rarely viewed winter landscapes

(Published: January 25, 2004)
Beginning snowmobilers take note: If your right thumb pushes the throttle lever with a force any harder than, say, pushing the button in an elevator, you will catapult forward and may ram the rider in front of you. In case you're claustrophobic, be warned: Although an essential piece of safety gear, the snowmobile helmet is extremely constricting. And if the temperature is far below zero, remember: Goggles are impossible to keep frost-free. These challenges aside, snowmachining for this neophyte (More...)

Nearly blind
Dutch Harbor man learns to overcome obstacles

(Published: January 25, 2004)
Norman Jones stands at the bottom of a Dimond Center escalator, hesitating. He has already moved aside to let people pass, but he is there still, at the bottom, studying his situation. On this Monday morning, an instructor with the Alaska Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired is teaching him how to get on an escalator when he can hardly see what's in front of (More...)

Warm hearts brave January cold snap to trade vows outdoors
For better or worse, couple follows through on wish to wed in open air

(Published: January 21, 2004)
In her wedding photos, Carol Gorbics glows. Glistens, actually, from a tear frozen in place on her decidedly rosy cheek. Her gloved hands cradle a bouquet of evergreens mixed with silk roses, a scarf circles her neck and pearl (More...)

Aces high
New ownership team uses marketing blitz to win fans

(Published: January 18, 2004)
Maybe it was the brightly lit sign you drove past at a busy Fairview intersection, or the torrent of TV and radio ads, or an excited child who came home and told you about the hockey player who read (More...)

Family album
Exhibit honors Siberian Yupiks long separated by Cold War politics

(Published: January 18, 2004)
For 40 years, as soldiers kept watch, the "ice curtain" drew a political line down the middle of the Siberian Yupik community, cutting the people of St. Lawrence Island off from friends and relations on Russia's Chukotka Coast. So (More...)

Logged out
Launched in 1992, Peninsula wood chip operation is shutting down

(Published: January 11, 2004)
HOMER -- The golden mountain of wood chips on the Homer Spit will vanish after one last chip ship sails to Japan this month, bringing an end to the decade-long logging boom that has bared the face of (More...)

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