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Su Valley construction bid goes to Collins
 | | An artist's rendering of the new Susitna Valley Junior-Senior High School. The previous school burned to the ground in June 2007. |
PALMER -- The contract to build the 51,000-square-foot Susitna Valley Junior-Senior High School went to Collins Construction, Inc. The contract award will be considered by the Assembly for approval on Aug. 5. [more] |
Willow man dies in four-wheeler accident
A Willow man who was injured in a four-wheeler accident on July 13 died at 2:03 p.m. July 14 at Providence Medical Center in Anchorage.
Alaska State Troopers from Talkeetna and Willow medics responded at 9:25 a.m. on July 13 to a report of an overturned four-wheeler with a person trapped underneath near Mile 71 of the Parks Highway. Investigation revealed that Jonathan E. Minturn, 38, of Willow, was found by two passing motorists pinned underneath his four-wheeler at about 9 a.m. on July 13. Willow medics treated Minturn on scene for trauma to his head, neck and upper torso.
Minturn was transported by medics to the Willow airport, where he was transferred to a Life Guard helicopter and taken to Providence Medical Center.S. Denali Visitor Center plans move forward
The South Denali Visitor Center Web site, www.uwsp.edu/schmeeckle/southdenali, has been updated.
Information on the site includes:
· Stakeholder Planning Status PowerPoint: An annotated PowerPoint presentation available in two formats that serves as a good summary of master planning efforts to the present time;
· Draft of themes/messages: Document details themes, subthemes, and specific stories that will be told through media and site/building design. Themes create a storyline framework for developing visitor experiences at South Denali.
· Draft of site/facility concepts: Document describes rationale for currently proposed site and conceptual ideas for the visitor center building, trails, and surrounding landscape.
· Bubble diagram of building: Conceptual planning tool that illustrates space sizes and relationships.
· Proposed visitor center trails: Conceptual layout of trails that will maximize the visitor’s outdoor experience. [more]Trooper has run-in with moose
Alaska State Trooper Shayne Calt, who is assigned to the Talkeetna patrol unit, learned first-hand recently that even state troopers aren’t exempt from collisions with moose.
Calt, 28, was traveling north on the Talkeetna Spur Road in a 2007 Ford Crown Victoria patrol vehicle when a moose entered the roadway near Mile 9. The moose ran into the southbound lane then suddenly crossed into the northbound lane. [more]Backpackers reunited with families
 | | Erica Nelson, left, and Abby Flantz, and members of their families talk with reporters from Anchorage TV stations following the rescue on June 18 of the two women, who had been missing in Denali National Park after being reported overdue six days earlier from a planned overnight outing. Photo by Scott Anderson. |
Abby Flantz and Erica Nelson were grinning from ear to ear as they disembarked the helicopter at the Denali Park airstrip at 4: 55 p.m. Wednesday, June 18, and walked into the waiting arms of their anxious families.
They were spotted earlier in the afternoon by the park’s plane, in an area north of the park boundary, about 15 miles north of where they began their hike and eight miles west of the Parks Highway. [more] |
15.MAY.08 Helping to build a playground
15.MAY.08 Rangers rescue fallen climber
05.MAR.08 Thompson assumes school board seat G
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