The answer is quite simple, really. The person who typed this is human.

Part 1: Gubernatorial hopefuls weigh in on oil taxes and how to cook fish

Perfect to warm up with after shoveling and plentiful for leftovers, "if you can restrain yourself."

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For other animals that live here, the snow can mean lots of different things.

I took a lazy approach to trying to find where I had misplaced a holiday story from waaaaaay back in my Petersburg days detailing how I had discovered the “Santa” visiting us Little Norway youth at the annual Moose Club shindig was actually my Moose Club-member father Harold. So I googled “Santa Klas Stolpe.”

Original Ashby and Leak saloon built in 1891 gutted by fire in 1906; building became the Louvre Theatre before reopening in 1917 as a mercantile store and then the current bar.

Ants?? Why think about ant when the outside temperatures at my house haven’t been over zero degrees (F) for days? Well, thoughts about ants are one kind of nice change from mentally feeling the cold (even in my warm house). And I was prompted by receiving two messages about some interesting ants.

If you are going to a big party and want to bring something unusual but not too difficult to make, consider this recipe.

AI Tries To Write The News is a weekly feature where a commercial AI blog tool is asked to write news stories about notable local events of the past week, with excerpts of the results provided.

Spruce needles are loaded with nasty chemicals; some of them toxic and consumers must have a physiological way to avoid the toxic effects. And mature needles are tough, not easily digestible. Who would want to eat such a diet??

Employees at Petersburg's Lee's Clothing store pose in their Dale of Norway sweaters. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Independent) By Klas Stolpe Juneau Independent I have learned a lot in my 66 years. Well, some things… a few… not much really. But sweaters. I know a thing or two about sweaters. I had been hoping to share my knowledge gleaned from years of succumbing to my Norwegian-themed hometown’s vast sweater lineage when the annual Solstice Sweater Shuffle kicks off at 10 a.m. Sat