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I would like to extend my congratulations to Bob Banghart on his appointment as the new chief curator of the Alaska State Museum.

Note to self: Don't go to Nome, Alaska. Aliens will get you. At night they'll send a white owl - or what appears to be an owl - to look in your window, they'll come barreling into your bedroom, and then, well, it's not entirely clear.

The U.S. Department of Energy provided a $4.6 million grant to University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers who plan to study the energy-producing potential of a hot springs on the Seward Peninsula.

The Village is a Daily News blog about life and politics in rural Alaska. Its main author is ADN reporter Kyle Hopkins.

Published: Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 1:32 p.m. The title of "The Fourth Kind" refers to a scale established to measure human contact with extra-terrestrials. The first kind is observation, and the second is physical evidence.

The U.S. Department of Energy provided a $4.6 million grant to University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers who plan to study the energy-producing potential of a hot springs on the Seward Peninsula.

Neal Foster has been appointed to a state House seat to replace his late father, Rep.

Another gold rush seems to be under way in Alaska. The state's gold production last year - 800,000 ounces - was the highest since 1916.

After watching the creepy "Fourth Kind" this last weekend, I realized whatever the truth of the film, I would not be visiting Nome, Alaska anytime soon.

In 1972, a scale of measurement was established for alien encounters. When a UFO is sighted, it is called an encounter of the first kind.

Suspected swine flu is sweeping a traditional Eskimo whaling village on a remote Alaska island - prompting an urgent medical mission to deliver help.

"I am actress Milla Jovovich," the star says, directly to the audience, as she introduces her new movie, "The Fourth Kind." And those are pretty much the last true words out of her mouth in this gimmicky, "Yes, this really happened" alien-abduction horror hooey.

Believe it or not, the cheesy "testimonial" that Milla Jovovich delivers in the trailer for the alien-abduction fake-doc The Fourth Kind is how the movie actually begins.

Abigail Milla Jovovich Psychologist Elias Koteas Sheriff Will Patton Tommy Corey Johnson Universal Pictures presents a film written and directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi.

Call me crazy, but I expect Richard Heene to be at the front of the line on November 13th when Sony Pictures drops 2012 into theatres across our doomed planet.

Seventy-one years after Orson Welles ' War of the Worlds radio broadcast snookered a gullible American public with its real-time alien-invasion scenario, The Fourth Kind writer/director Olatunde Osunsanmi tries a similar gambit, albeit with less showmanship than Welles had in his pinkie finger.

NEW LAW: Jail time, fines becoming more serious for Alaska Bush bootleggers. Published: November 1st, 2009 10:08 PM Last Modified: November 2nd, 2009 12:14 AM Weeks after two hub cities in rural Alaska voted to remove bans on local liquor sales, the state is launching a campaign warning bootleggers they face big fines and mandatory jail time if ...

The upcoming thriller "The Fourth Kind" also uses Cinema Vrit to help explain what happened to some missing citizens of Nome, Alaska.

The Alaska Democratic Party has sent three names to Gov. Parnell as possible replacements for Richard Foster, the Nome state representative who died Oct.

The Fourth Kind is only a few weeks off so prepare to scare yourself silly. These don't look like friendly aliens.