From the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena to the Spokane Valley Mall to Spokane International Airport’s Concourse C expansion, residents here hardly can go anywhere without seeing the work of Garco Construction Inc., one of Spokane’s largest contractors.
I was born in 1920 in New Almeno, Kan. I grew up in Klamath Falls, Ore. In 1937, my father, Frank Schnabel, returned from Alaska, where he had sought work during the Great Depression. He told me and my brothers about an old burned-out sawmill boiler, engine and carriage that could be bought for $500 and thought that this could be an opportunity to lift ourselves out of the manual laboring class.
Two University of Alaska Fairbanks professors questioned the journalistic ethics of interior Alaska's largest newspaper, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, in a letter to colleagues dated October 3. The letter, written by John Creed and Susan Andrews, professors of journalism and general studies at UAF's Chukchi campus in Kotzebue, says that the News-Miner gave preferential treatment to state
A three million dollar facility providing mental health and drug and alcohol treatment for teenagers in Juneau had its grand opening Wednesday. The Montana Creek Residential Facility and Program is operated by Juneau Youth Services and SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium.
Eagle River will have a new state representative for the first time in 14 years, after Republican Pete Kott was defeated in the August primaries by Anchorage Assemblywoman Anna Fairclough. Fairclough will face Democrat Karla Huntington, an attorney in the general election.
If naming the new Muldoon-area middle school were a popularity contest, local educator and U.S. Congressman Nick Begich, who vanished in a plane crash more than 30 years ago, would win in a landslide.
The race for Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly Seat F pits an insider against an outsider. Borough Assemblywoman Nadine Hargesheimer has worked extensively for local and state government.
