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Mushers to be tested for drugs during 2010 Iditarod
... 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 ... Comment?
burlydave - Drug testing planned for Iditarod mushers - KTVA
... 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 ... Comment?
Drug testing planned for Iditarod mushers
... 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 ... Comment?
Nenana mourns loss of longtime civic leader Mitch Demientieff
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. Comment?
Native leader Mitch Demientieff dies at 57
... 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 ... Comment?
Mike Mathers/News-Miner archive Mitch Demientieff is pictured in 1991.
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. Comment?
Public Safety Report - Nov. 27
... 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 ... Comment?
... 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 ... Comment?
Photos: Territorial Guard statue
... 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 ... Comment?
The Explorers 2009: Interior Alaska basins
... 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 Comment?
Feds' Lone Dog-Mushing Job Opens Up
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... 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 ... Comment?
Mining Explorers 2009: Increasing reserves to meet demand
... 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, ... Comment?
Territorial Guard statue unveiled in 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
Statue pays tribute to Alaska Territorial Guard
... 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 ... Comment?
Native Alaskans to examine issues during convention
... 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 ... Comment?
Blind radio broadcaster preaches to Alaska villages
... 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 ... Comment?
Parnell picks Coghill to replace Therriault
... 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 ... Comment?
Parnell picks Coghill to replace Therriault
... 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 ... Comment?
Port Authority pursues natural gas company
... 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: Comment?
George Sullivan dies, former city mayor
... 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 ... Comment?