Trapper Creek News

The National Weater Service has issued a storm watch for Talkeetna, Trapper Creek and Willow until Sunday evening.A Snow accumulations may be between 4 and 8 inches and travel could be hazardous.A The weather service has issued a blizzard warning for Turnagain arm for the same time period.A Blowing snow may cause visibility to dimish to one mile in ...

The Bitterroot National Forest has temporarily closed a section of road #374 between the intersection with Hart Bench Loop Road 374-A and the top of the divide between South Fork of Chaffin Creek and Little Trapper Creek for public safety concerns after an ice dam formed, causing about 100 feet of the road to become covered in ice.

DEMAND GROWS: Need is greater this year because of the faltering economy. Published: December 15th, 2009 05:51 PM Last Modified: December 15th, 2009 09:46 PM WASILLA -- Food pantries around the Valley are gearing up for higher than usual demand for holiday baskets to help residents short on money provide a Christmas meal for their families.

A plan to provide a scenic corridor leading into Denali State Park is in the works.

Tues pm -With temperatures hovering around the freezing mark, the Upper Susitna Valley received a dose of heavy wet snow early Tuesday.A At the Talkeetna airport, the flight service measured four and half inches of snowfall by 10 am.

The same storm making a slick, drippy mess of Anchorage and parts of Mat-Su is dumping heavy, wet snow up the Glenn and Parks highways, causing major problems on some roads.

The Sunshine and Trapper Creek Food Banks are looking at a record amount of Thanksgiving baskets this year.A As poverty numbers in the U.S. soar, the Upper Valley seems to be no different.

George Blodgett of Trapper Creek plea-bargained to felony assault charges in Palmer Court last week.

SPEED STACKINGa ' PE teacher Karen Mannix helps Vega Papasadora, left, and McKenzy Keller, right, to stack cups on the Battlestack station during the World Stack Up event held worldwide on November 12, 2009.

The vaccinations were not mandatory but most students had their parenta TMs consent to get either the nasal spray or shot to ward off the H1N1 virus.

The Mat Su Borough Assembly and Mayor Talis Colberg recognized Rodney Norwood Marsh posthumously Tuesday night at the Borough Assembly meeting.

Gusty winds in the Mat-Su area have knocked out power to between 700 and 1,000 customers in the Matanuska Electric Association service territory, MEA spokeswoman Lorali Carter said this afternoon.

Mat-Su public health officials are gearing up to organize their first large-scale H1N1 vaccination clinics.

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources , Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation , has initiated a planning process to create Denali State Park's first Trail Management Plan.

A series of drug busts in Trapper Creek on Tuesday uncovered five marijuana growing operations and led to three arrests, with charges pending against other suspects, according to Alaska State Troopers.

Oct. 6 -Mat Su Borough elections are today, as well as the Talkeetna Community Council election.

A A The Talkeetna Community Council has three new Directors for their Board. Meghaan A A Vaughan, the youngest director, took the most votes with 135 of 187 total voters casting A their ballot for her.

A 25 year old Anchorage man died at the Hurricane Bridge late Sunday. Multiple rescue teams responded to the call early Sunday evening at the Hurricane Bridge over the Chulitna River on the Parks Highway.

A Texas man who was run over and badly injured during a Trapper Creek music festival is back in Austin recovering and a local man is in jail, charged with drunk driving, felony assault and attempted murder.

Wasilla Farmers Market, 11 a.m.- 6 p.m., through September, behind Wasilla Public Library.