Mary Ann and Gordon Bartholomew of Anchorage recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. A dinner for immediate family members was at the home of Tom Bartholomew.
By Brandon Loomis, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Sep. 17--SOLDOTNA -- After two decades holding the line at 35-horsepower motorboats on the lower Kenai River, regulators propose throttling up.
HOMER, Alaska -- The sound of bark being stripped from a fallen tree echoed across the secluded cove in Peterson Bay. On the rocky beach, a black bear was hard at work, tearing pieces from a fallen tree and feasting on them. Framed by a backdrop of lush mountains, the animal was oblivious to the presence of its audience.
If over the next few days the rain deities smile on us with substantial precipitation - not flood-level stuff, mind you, but enough to color the rivers just a little and give those coho waiting in the bay a sniff of fresh, cool water - then by the middle of next week we should be up to our arm pits in silvers, which would bring a huge sigh of relief from the folks running the big Everett Coho
