Chickaloon News

State parks around the Mat-Su Valley are getting new restrooms designed to last for years.

New restrooms are going in at state parks around Alaska. They look like wood and stone but are prefabricated concrete buildings meant to withstand abuse.

Convicted of murder and tampering with physical evidence in March, former Eagle River resident Frank Adams was sentenced Friday to 102 years for killing Stacey Johnston of Chugiak.

Taxes on overnight stays collected by the borough will pay for improvements at two popular parks on the east and west ends of the Mat-Su, and to put portable restrooms at a handful of frequent stopping spots that now offer only trees and bushes for cover.

Matanuska-Susitna Borough officials have scheduled a public forum in Palmer May 13 to take comments from the public on how to develop a management plan for eroding sections of the Matanuska River from Chickaloon to the lower Butte area.

As hundreds from all over Alaska filled a Dena'ina Center stimulus seminar Tuesday, many thought they would leave with grant money.