Sleetmute News

DISASTER: Federal grants, loans for housing and businesses available. Anchorage Daily News / adn.com Published: June 16th, 2009 09:19 PM Last Modified: June 16th, 2009 09:20 PM Federal officials are in the state this week to help Alaskans hurt by spring flooding and ice jams obtain grants and loans to help them recover.

A Bohemian, mostly under-30 crowd filled the hole-in-the-wall Laurelthirst Public House on a recent Sunday night.

The wildfire burning about five miles north of McGrath has more than doubled in size in the past two days, fire officials said this morning.

COLLEGE MYSTERY: WHO IS THE SECRET DONOR? : UAA is the latest university with a female president to receive millions of dollars from a donor who demands anonymity.

In the past few weeks, mysterious anonymous multi-million-dollar donations have arrived at a number of colleges and universities.

Two western Alaska villages are awash in Kuskokwim River water and others are bracing for flooding.

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Break up is beginning on the The Kuskokwim River.A Residents in the upriver Villages of Sleetmute, Red Devil and Crooked Creek are watching the river ice shift and the water rise.

Plunging oil prices have Citgo Petroleum, the Venezuelan-owned company, thinking twice about its generous provision of free heating oil to Alaska villages.