Trapper Creek News

A 42-year-old man was killed this afternoon after trying to rescue a dog from a train track south of Trapper Creek.

The Alaska Volcano Observatory yesterday downgraded the aviation warning code for Mount Redoubt from orange to yellow and the alert level from Watch to Advisory.

The school district has okaya ed two separate principal positions for Talkeetna and Trapper Creek.

MEA: Board assigns committee to search for an interim GM. Published: June 9th, 2009 08:13 PM Last Modified: June 9th, 2009 08:13 PM The Matanuska Electric Association board on Monday handed longtime cooperative general manager Wayne Carmony a letter outlining details of a severance agreement.

Wasilla and Palmer real estate statistics for May 26-June 1, 2009. These statistics show the average and median sales prices for single family homes in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.

The deadline is near for public comment on two state plans dealing with land, timber and forestry issues in the Upper Valley.

In this archived program, artists / craftspeople Julia Crocetto, Stacie Smiley, and Debbie Filter from Talkeetna and Trapper Creek talk with host Charlie Loeb about making a living, or part of a living, from art and craft.

This year's Talkeetna -Trapper Creek Birdathon, an annual local twenty-four-hour birding quest, was held last Friday and Saturday.A It was postponed a week due to wintry conditions at the end of April, but after the last couple weeks of warm weather, birders enjoyed warm sunshine and nearly snow-free travel for the event.

Jodi Picou, principal of the Talkeetna and Trapper Creek Elementary Schools handed in her resignation on Tuesday, April 14.

The number of liquor licenses in the area has increased the past few years along with the Mat Su Borougha s population growth spurt.

A power outage in the upper valley Tuesday evening left Trapper Creek and residents along Petersville road without electricity for 3 hours.

Mt. Redoubt continues its explosive cycle. First its up, then its down. A A large explosion on Saturday sent ash thousands of feet in the air, darkening the skies of Homer and covering the town in a layer of ash.

Asked to name their three favorite cities, leaving out Anchorage which is at the top of everyonea s list, most of the mayoral candidates said their favorite cities are not in Alaska.

A There are no reports of ash from that eruption. A Seismicity has remained unchanged since early this morning.

This photo released by the Alaska Volcano Observatory/U.S. Geological Survey shows a webcam image of Mount Redoubt at 8:43p.m.Alaska Daylight Time Monday March 23, 2009 near Kenai, Alaska.

The Alaska Volcano Observatory says the eruptions were about an hour apart on Thursday, with the first and smaller one about 8:30 a.m. The ash cloud in that eruption reached about 30,000 feet.

SU, 4:15 a.m.- Mt. Redoubt erupted four times last night. The National Weather Service predicted light ashfall for the Susitna Valley.

People in the Susitna Valley reported a heavy dusting of brown ash and a haze in the air this morning, though more populated parts of the Mat-Su remained unaffected by the eruption from Mount Redoubt.

Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano erupted five times overnight, sending an ash plume more than 9 miles into the air in the volcano's first emissions in nearly 20 years. Residents in the state's largest city were spared from falling ash, though fine gray dust fell Monday morning on small communities north of Anchorage.

'It's coming down,' Rita Jackson, 56, said Monday morning at a 24-hour grocery store in Willow, about 50 miles north of Anchorage. She slid her fingers across the hood of her car, through a dusting of ash.

Several organizations in the Upper Valley have been working to get some kind of transportation off the ground to serve people of Talkeetna, Trapper Creek and the Susitna area.