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  1. Mushers to be tested for drugs during 2010 IditarodRead the original story

    Yesterday | Anchorage Daily News

    ... Club has requested for years that mushers be drug tested. "It's time," said Burmeister, a 12-time finisher from Nenana. The Iditarod has had a drug and alcohol policy since 1984, Hooley said. But he called it "fairly informal" and said to his ...

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  2. burlydave - Drug testing planned for Iditarod mushers - KTVARead the original story

    8 min ago | KTVA Anchorage

    ... been requesting for years that mushers be drug tested. "It's time," said Burmeister, a 12-time Iditarod finisher from Nenana. The Iditarod has had a policy regarding drug and alcohol use since 1984, said Stan Hooley, executive director for the ...

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  3. Drug testing planned for Iditarod mushersRead the original story

    21 hrs ago | Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

    ... been requesting for years that mushers be drug tested. "It's time," said Burmeister, a 12-time Iditarod finisher from Nenana. The Iditarod has had a policy regarding drug and alcohol use since 1984, said Stan Hooley, executive director for the ...

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  4. Nenana mourns loss of longtime civic leader Mitch DemientieffRead the original story

    23 hrs ago | Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

    The small community of Nenana is mourning the passing of longtime Native son and leader Mitch Demientieff while making preparations for his Saturday funeral, burial and potlatch.

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  5. Native leader Mitch Demientieff dies at 57Read the original story

    Thursday | Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

    ... Mitch Demientieff, who spent nearly four decades as a force in local and Alaska politics, died on Tuesday at age 57. Nenana Mayor Jason Mayrand and Nenana Tribal Administrator Karen Lord both confirmed the news on Tuesday evening but had few other ...

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  6. Mike Mathers/News-Miner archive Mitch Demientieff is pictured in 1991.Read the original story

    Thursday | Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

    The small community of Nenana is mourning the passing of longtime Native son and leader Mitch Demientieff while making preparations for his Saturday funeral, burial and potlatch.

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  7. Public Safety Report - Nov. 27

    Saturday Nov 28 | Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

    ... in a court of law. Burglary Alaska State Troopers received a report of a burglary just after midnight Thursday in Nenana. No other information was available Thursday. Theft A Wedgewood Drive man told Fairbanks police Wednesday that he had two ...

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  8. Business people

    Sunday Nov 15 | Anchorage Daily News

    ... Health Consortium has named Carrie Brown as the new director of the Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation. A graduate of Nenana High School, Brown attended the University of Hawaii and Nagoya Gakuin University in Japan. In 1994, she graduated from ...

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  9. Photos: Territorial Guard statue

    Saturday Nov 14 | Juneau Empire

    ... Haida Central Council. Each of the other seven statues will be displayed in Anchorage, Bethel, Fairbanks, Kotzebue, Nenana, Nome and Point Barrow. The statue is intended to remind more Alaskans about the territorial guard, also known as the Eskimo ...

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  10. The Explorers 2009: Interior Alaska basinsRead the original story

    Friday Nov 13 | Petroleum News

    ... oil and gas explorers. These basins typically consist.... [additional news subjects in this story] Copper River basin Nenana and Middle Tanana basins Holitna, Minchumina & Innoko basins Yukon Flats basin

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  11. Feds' Lone Dog-Mushing Job Opens UpRead the original story w/Photo

    Wednesday Nov 11 | Freerepublic.com

    ... the final leg of the 1925 serum run to Nome, in which diphtheria antitoxin was transported from Anchorage, Alaska to Nenana, Alaska by train and then to Nome by dog sled to combat an outbreak of the disease. The run is commemorated by the annual ...

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  12. Mining Explorers 2009: Increasing reserves to meet demand

    Oct 30, 2009 | Petroleum News

    ... Usibelli Coal Mine Inc. completed a property wide reassessment of all available geologic data of its leases in the Nenana Coal Field in Interior Alaska, increasing its surface mineable coal reserves to around 700 million tons. The fourth-generation, ...

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  13. Territorial Guard statue unveiled in FairbanksRead the original story

    Oct 22, 2009 | KTVF Fairbanks

    ... he Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports the identical statues will be displayed in Anchorage, Bethel, Juneau, Kotzebue, Nenana, Nome and Point Barrow. ___ Information from: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, http://www.newsminer.com 1 comment

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  14. Statue pays tribute to Alaska Territorial Guard

    Oct 22, 2009 | KTVA Anchorage

    ... to the military protecting this nation." The other statues will be displayed in Anchorage, Bethel, Juneau, Kotzebue, Nenana, Nome and Point Barrow. The veterans association is selling smaller versions of the statue for about $200 each. Guardsmen ...

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  15. Native Alaskans to examine issues during convention

    Oct 22, 2009 | McClatchy DC

    ... center lobby Wednesday as the first of roughly 1,000 voting delegates signed up for the meeting. Outside, a man from Nenana sold dried salmon strips for $15 a bag. Another sang home-made country songs, an open guitar case at his feet. An Inupiat ...

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  16. Blind radio broadcaster preaches to Alaska villages

    Oct 15, 2009 | KTVF Fairbanks

    ... so much competing, but a station really meant something." So Blair, with his wife and their four children, came to Nenana to work at KIAM, the oldest of three stations owned by Voice For Christ Ministries. Radio has been a natural fit for Blair, who ...

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  17. Parnell picks Coghill to replace TherriaultRead the original story

    Oct 9, 2009 | Juneau Empire

    ... He's the son of Jack Coghill, a member of the Alaska Constitutional Convention. The elder Coghill was mayor of Nenana, a state senator and lieutenant governor in the Walter Hickel administration. John Coghill Jr., 59, was elected to the state House ...

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  18. Parnell picks Coghill to replace TherriaultRead the original story

    Oct 9, 2009 | Juneau Empire

    ... He's the son of Jack Coghill, a member of the Alaska Constitutional Convention. The elder Coghill was mayor of Nenana, a state senator and lieutenant governor in the Walter Hickel administration. John Coghill Jr., 59, was elected to the state House ...

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  19. Port Authority pursues natural gas companyRead the original story

    Sep 30, 2009 | Anchorage Daily News

    ... market for Interior Alaska gas supplies, worked with partners on a multimillion-dollar test well for natural gas near Nenana. The firms have yet to release an analysis of the test project's results. Showing:

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  20. George Sullivan dies, former city mayorRead the original story

    Sep 23, 2009 | Anchorage Daily News

    ... 1922, and raised in Valdez. He had a long and storied career in Alaska and its politics. He was a deputy marshal in Nenana, a city councilman in Fairbanks and Anchorage, and became Anchorage's city mayor in 1967. He held that position until the old ...

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