January Issue 4 2012

POLICE BRIEFS 1/26/12

POLICE BLOTTER 1/26/12

Big bucks dominate annual contest

This year’s annual Boondock Sporting Goods Big Buck contest lived up to its name.

BY MATT TUNSETH

“Home cooking” in Peters Creek

Those craving meat have to look no further than Peters Creek.

BY MIKE NESPER

A family affair at the Besh Cup

Several local families road-tripped to Homer over the weekend to pick up some valuable Besh Cup Nordic ski race series points.

STAR STAFF REPORTER

Girls hockey to face familiar foe in CIC tourney

The Chugiak-Eagle River girls hockey team will end the regular season just as it started — against familiar foe Dimond-West.

BY MIKE NESPER

One final icy showdown

The two-and-a-half month wait is over.

BY MIKE NESPER

Wrestlers prep for big dance

If you’ve made it this far, wresting finally gets (a little) easier.

BY MATT TUNSETH

More than just a coffee shop

Although the Chugiak Coffee Shop continued to be a common meeting place for the town’s civic organizations...

Chugiak-Eagle River Historical Society

Barbecue meat loaf

BY MADELINE MACKEY

Time Was 1/26/12

My journey of faith (Part 1)

I am Irma J. Register, one of seven Associate Pastors of the Eagle River Missionary Baptist Church...

BY REV. IRMA J. REGISTER Associate Pastor, Eagle River Missionary Baptist Church

Tommy Frazier

Kastle Sorensen

Suellyn Wright Novak

George Wesley West

Eagle River violinist earns tasty victory

A hundred bucks will buy a lot of ice cream.

BY MATT TUNSETH

Stories help families connect

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — Deployment can be hard on a family.

BY TECH. SGT. VERNON CUNNINGHAM 455th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs

190 Guard members set to deploy to Kuwait

A ceremony to recognize the upcoming deployment of the 98th Maintenance Company was held at the Alaska National Guard Armory on Jan. 23.

Kasen J. Lehman

Family folksters

The Hoppers never miss the Anchorage Folk Festival.

BY MIKE NESPER

Graphic novels: More than just heroes In tights

Superman, Batman, X-Men and other do-gooders in tights and capes are probably what you think of when you think about comic books.

BY ELIZABETH MOREAU

Winter’s snow is a book… Tracks are the chapters and stories

January ski and snowshoe trips to Eagle Lake in South Fork valley reminded me of an essay on snow and tracks by Alaska poet John Haines...

BY FRANK E. BAKER