January Issue 1 2012

Have you signed up for your PFD yet?

If you’re like most of us, your probably haven’t — but you’ve likely already been thinking about getting online to get in line for your annual cut of the state’s massive oil wealth payout.

A passion for dance

Janie Williams, the owner and director of the Stars Dance Studio, got up for the second time to shut the door as a gust of wind blew it open.

BY KELLIE DOHERTY For the Star

Message from the front

Surrounded by hostile forces in a faraway land, Army Command Sgt. Major Terry Gardner spent Christmas singing with his troops.

BY MATT TUNSETH

POLICE BLOTTER 1/5/12

Jessi McMullen

Athlete of the Week - January 5, 2012

Football crosses over into basketball season

Even the start of a new sports season can’t erase the way Chugiak High’s 2011 football campaign ended.

BY MIKE NESPER

Eagle River boys basketball set sights on state

First-year head coach Fred Young doesn’t care that Eagle River High only won two games last year. He doesn’t care that 10 of his 12 players are new to the team.

BY MIKE NESPER

Chugiak girls soar to victory in conference opener

Missing state last year coupled with the new rule that guarantees only two Cook Inlet Conference berths in the postseason this year...

BY MIKE NESPER

The year ahead

Well we’ve made it through another New Year’s Eve; the spectacular fireworks...

BY AMY DEMBOSKI

“O Come Let Us Adore Him”

Why do over 250 people come to spend one hour at a time in a small chapel at St. Andrew Church?

BY VIRGINIA MARQUEZ

Douglas E. Gibson

Brandon James Haynen

Lucas film premiers for an Alaskan audience

A select group of Reserve Airmen and Anchorage citizens were treated to an advanced screening of the new George Lucas film, Red Tails...

BY CAPT. ASHLEY CONNER 477th Fighter Group Public Affairs

‘Dragon Tattoo’ kicks proverbial butt

Hollywood has commandeered Sweden’s big literary export, “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” without compromising the story’s Scandinavian roots or its top-of-the-world, Seasonal Affective Disorder sense of barrenness, even hopelessness.

BY DAVID GERMAIN AP MOVIE CRITIC

Great ideas and quotes from bygone days

Over time we have a tendency to forget some of the great ideas put forth by our Alaska luminaries and others.

BY FRANK E. BAKER