Hiking down from Dan Moller cabin in mid-January 2025. (photo courtesy John Harley)

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Sustainable Alaska: Skiing on the edge

The difference between a great winter for skiing and a bad one can be a matter of a…

Juneau as pictured from the Downtown Public Library on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2025. (Mari Kanagy/Juneau Empire)

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Weekly events guide: Juneau community calendar for Dec. 15-21

Visit Juneau Arts and Humanities Council at JAHC.org for more details on this week’s happenings.

Downtown Juneau experiences its first significant city-level snow fall of the season as pictured on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. (Mari Kanagy / Juneau Empire)

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Weekend guide for Dec. 12-14

Visit Juneau Arts and Humanities Council at jahc.org for more details on this week’s happenings.

A totem pole, one of 13 on downtown’s Totem Pole Trail in Juneau, Alaska, Nov. 27, 2024. (Christopher S. Miller/The New York Times)

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Weekly guide: Community calendar for Dec. 8-12

Visit Juneau Arts and Humanities Council for more details on this week’s happenings.

Peggy McKee Barnhill (Courtesy photo)

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Gimme a smile: My roommate’s name is Siri

She hasn’t brought a lot of stuff into the house, and she takes up very little space.

photo courtesy Tim Harrison 
Rev. Tim Harrison is senior pastor at Chapel by the Lake.

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Living and Growing: I Wonder as I Wander

The Rev. Tim Harrison reflects on the Christmas season.

Jeff Lund photo 
The author heard what he thought was a squirrel. It was not a squirrel.

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I Went into the Woods: A change of plans

It was only a 30-hour trip but it’s always better to bring more food than you count on…

Jasz Garrett / Juneau Empire file photo
Reverend Gordon Blue from the Church of the Holy Trinity gives an invocation at the Alaska Commercial Fishermen’s Memorial on Saturday, May 3, 2025.

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Living and Growing: Psalm 30, Ouroboros, the dragon of fear and love.

Psalm 30:6 Weeping may spend the night, but joy comes in the morning.

Shoppers and vendors mingle along rows of booths in the mall ballroom at Centennial Hall during the Juneau Public Market last year, which returns this year starting Friday, Nov. 28. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Empire file photo)

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Weekly guide: Community calendar for Nov. 22-28

Visit Juneau Arts and Humanities Council for more details on this week’s happenings.

Cold water dipping is a centuries old stress reduction technique still practiced today. (Photo by Raven Hotch)

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Recipes for stress reduction rooted in Indigenous knowledge

We must choose to live intentionally and learn to commit to our wellbeing.

photo courtesy Tim Harrison
Rev. Tim Harrison is senior pastor at Chapel by the Lake.

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Living and Growing: ‘Blessed are the Peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God’

So says Matthew 5:9, one of the beatitudes of Jesus

photo by Page Bridges
Heather Mountcastle and Luke Weld playing crystal singing bowls at Holy Trinity Church.

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Living and Growing: Our Juneau Renaissance

Juneau is a mecca for artists, and because we have so much talent of all kinds, we will…

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St. Thérèse of Lisieux pictured in 1888.

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Living and Growing: What makes a saint?

A commonality among saints is that they are completely committed.

Photo by Jeff Lund
Cold and damp are defining characteristics of this time of year so the warm couch is always tempting.

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I Went to the Woods: The fear of fear

What’s the margin of error for being prepared?

Peggy McKee Barnhill (Courtesy photo)

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Gimme a Smile: Top ten most terrifying Halloween costumes

These last-minute costumes can likely be found throughout your home.

Photos by Chloe Anderson for the Juneau Empire
The Lemon Creek glacier is pictured on Sept. 29, 2025.

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Weekly Wonder: Juneau’s ‘seasons’

Dozens of creatures are sensing a change of the season

Laura Rorem

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Living and Growing: It is it so easy not to see what we need to see

Laura Rorem weighs in on selective vision

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Guy Crockroft

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Faith: Finding peace in a frantic life

Guy Crockroft reflects on tranquility

Todd Hunt introduces “The Circle” at Juneau Community Band’s 2023 Oktoberfest concert. The score for the alphorns was composed specially the concert by Juneau composer Spencer Edgers. (Photo courtesy JCB President Sarah McNair-Grove)

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Juneau Community Bands’ Oktoberfest Concert returns Saturday

The theme, Oktoberfest, is back by popular demand, since they first debuted the theme two years ago

Peggy McKee Barnhill (Courtesy photo)
Peggy McKee Barnhill (Courtesy photo)

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Gimme a smile: _______ is good for you

We all have different ways to fill in the blank for what is good for you