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Cooking for Pleasure: Italian-Style Pasta Bean Soup
Once you have tasted it, you’ll find it irresistible.
Oct 6, 20252 min read


On The Trails: Sandpiper, eagle, and orchid
On a mild, almost-sunny day near the end of September, a stroll on the dike trail found a large bunch of shorebirds in one of the lagoons.
Oct 5, 20253 min read


Here's what's happening for First Friday in October
October's First Friday will feature spooky pottery, live sketching events, and a local quilter raising funds for her brother on the front lines of Ukraine.
Oct 2, 20255 min read


On The Trails: Fall foliage and more questions
Here in the coniferous forest, we don’t get the spectacular display of fall foliage colors that occurs in the eastern deciduous forest. But our cottonwoods and willows do produce bright yellows and golds.
Sep 28, 20253 min read


Fat Bear Week is more than a bit of fun – for the animals, size is a matter of survival
The most gripping week of the bear calendar has arrived. The Fat Bear Week is an annual online competition hosted by Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. This event, which began in 2014 as a one-day celebration, has since grown into a phenomenon among bear enthusiasts worldwide.
Sep 27, 20253 min read


Cooking for Pleasure: Chicken Pot Pie
Once you have eaten a homemade one, you will never want to eat one from the frozen food section of your grocery store ever again.
Sep 19, 20253 min read


AI Tries To Write The News: Boozer in another hall of fame; Downing out at Must Read Alaska
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.
Sep 14, 20255 min read


Cooking for Pleasure: Just for the dogs
I thought it was about time to come up with a recipe for dog biscuits with ingredients that they love and share them.
Sep 8, 20253 min read


On The Trails: Fall comes; sexton beetles
Autumn crept up on us, deluding us with a series of wonderfully sunny, summery days in late August and early September — although those days were getting shorter and shorter.
Sep 7, 20253 min read


Alaska Science Forum: The long fade of Alaska’s largest glacier
While paddling a glacial lake complete with icebergs and milky blue water, I dipped my left hand, then tasted my fingers.
Sep 5, 20253 min read


Here’s what’s happening for First Friday in September
September's First Friday will feature poetry readings, visual art exhibits, and a free boreal forest talk at the Alaska State Museum.
Sep 3, 20255 min read


AI Tries To Write The News: The Alaskan in haunted hotel contest, Dunleavy may seek Murkowski’s seat
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.
Sep 1, 20255 min read
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