February Issue 3 2012

Ready to play ball

When Lee Jordan looks at Chugiak’s Loretta French Field, he doesn’t see a diamond buried under two feet of snow, but a field of Alaska Baseball League dreams.

BY MATT TUNSETH

POLICE BRIEFS 2/16/12

POLICE BLOTTER 2/16/12

Student doesn’t want music cut

Tough times in girls hoops

Every Dimond player scored at least six points as the first-place Lynx rolled to a 77-38 win over Chugiak on Tuesday, Feb. 14 at Dimond.

STAR STAFF REPORTER

Wolves net pair of CIC wins

Eagle River’s Brandon Parrish just scored five points in the Wolves’ 66-62 Cook Inlet Conference overtime win over East on Tuesday, Feb. 14, but he made them count.

STAR STAFF REPORTER

Chugiak hockey goes 0-2 at state

Wasilla got two goals from Colton Fletcher and 30 saves from Larry Massie...

BY MATT TUNSETH AND MIKE NESPER

No more time for fun and games

After a bit of fun, it’s time to get down to business.

BY MATT TUNSETH

Birchwood Road talk

Crushed gravel resurfacing by mid-September was promised for the Birchwood Road at a meeting of the Birchwood Community Club, held last Monday night at the home of Lester Juhnke.

From the Knik Arm Courier, Aug. 3, 1966

Center for the Blind announces grant

The Alaska Center for the Blind is proud to announce a three-year grant to identify Mat-Su residents with uncorrectable vision loss and improve their overall health and well being through vision rehabilitation.

BY KARLA JUTZI Director, Alaska Center for the Blind

Michaela Marie Hall Richard

Alexis Sayer

Breeanna Bateman

Alexander Mattson

Chugiak, Eagle River students go WACKO

For two hours Friday, Feb. 10, the area’s two local high schools put education on hold and competed in a series of challenges that tested strength, speed…

BY MIKE NESPER

Learning to survive — and escape

There are only approximately 400 Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape specialists in the Air Force, and two of them reside at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.

BY AIR FORCE STAFF SGT. ROBERT BARNETT JBER Public Affairs

Who wants to retire? It’s too difficult

I used to think people postponed retirement and worked longer than they needed to because they wanted to make more money or they wanted to have something to do to feel useful.

BY FRANK E. BAKER