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A small cluster of daddy longlegs seeks protection in a mine adit.

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Winter explorations: Squirrel caches, old mining adits and daddy longlegs

Wonderful snow! Brightening our short December days; under that full moon, it was spectular. All that glorious snow…

A deer carcass, partially eaten by wolves.

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Off the Beaten Path: The wolf and the fawn

A few years ago while looking for deer, I listened to trees creaking and moaning in a Southeasterly…

Rosemarie and Neil Davis.

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Alaska Science Forum: Goodbye to a smiling giant of Alaska science

T. Neil Davis has died at 84, in his Fairbanks home. The scientist/author/doer was a graduate student and…

Sunset over Auke Bay from Auke Nu trail on Dec. 23.

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Wild Shots

Submit your wild shots: The Empire Outdoors page is looking for superb images of Alaska’s wildlife, scenery or…

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Tenakee Inlet closed to personal shrimp fishing

The sport and personal use shrimp fisheries in Tenakee Inlet will remain closed in 2017 until further notice,…

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Unit 4 Goat Season to end

SITKA — Mountain goat registration hunt RG150 on Baranof Island will end Dec. 31. Successful hunters must submit…

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Unit 4 Brown Bear Season to end

SITKA — The brown bear registration hunt RB077 in Unit 4 (Admiralty, Baranof and Chichagof Island) will end…

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Unit 4 State Deer Season to end

SITKA — The Sitka black-tailed deer state hunting season in Unit 4 will end Dec. 31. Unit 4…

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Juneau area closed to personal shrimp fishing

The sport and personal use shrimp fisheries in the Juneau area will remain closed in 2017 until further…

Carver James Hart greets the hundreds gathered on Bartlett Cove's shore in Tlingit. These three boats paddled from Hoonah to Glacier Bay.

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Bright moments in the arts: 2016 in Southeast Alaska

BRIGHT MOMENTS OF 2016 From the editor: We’ve reached out to members of the arts community around Southeast…

Approaching , by Kathleen Wiest.

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City museum acquires work from Tenakee Springs, Juneau artists

City museum acquires work from Tenakee Springs, Juneau artists The Juneau-Douglas City Museum has been awarded money from…

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Minkie’s Coconut Cake: The Parthenon of delicacies

MINKIE’S COCONUT CAKE I RECENTLY HAD THE WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY TO BE A PART OF MUDROOMS. IF YOU HAVEN’T…

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Writers’ Weir: What We Wouldn’t Give

WHAT WE WOULDN’T GIVE BY W.S. MERK, 12.16.2016 What wouldn’t we give To walk that backward route, Each…

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Stokes releases new chapbook

Stokes publishes new chapbook Juneau poet and Writers’ Weir contributor Richard Stokes has a new chapbook out. It’s…

From left to right, pickled herring competition winners Sig Mathisen, Bob Olsen, Carolyn Kvernvik and Adam Swanson (standing in for his dad Rob) pose with their trophies.

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Getting pickled and smoked in Petersburg

GETTING PICKLED AND SMOKED IN PETERSBURG BY CHELSEA TREMBLAY For the Capital City Weekly On a cold December…

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Farr North: Goodbye and Hello

GOODBYE AND HELLO BY CLINT J. FARR For the Capital City Weekly 2016 did not suck. My daughters…

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The art of Scott Severance: From new brewery labels to the fantastical

THE ART OF SCOTT SEVERANCE BY CLARA MILLER Capital City Weekly This January, Husky IPA, a spring seasonal…

Ernestine Hayes laughs at a Sept. 2015 49 Writers Crosscurrents panel called "Shaped by the North."

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Ernestine Hayes, Tlingit professor and writer from Juneau, selected as next Alaska State Writer Laureate

HAYES CHOSEN AS 2016-2018 WRITER LAUREATE BY MARY CATHARINE MARTIN Capital City Weekly Juneau writer and University of…

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22nd Sitka Jazz Festival scheduled

Sitka Jazz Festival scheduled SITKA— The 22nd Sitka Jazz Festival will be Feb. 2-4, 2017. It will consist…

Puggy Nelson, a foreman at the Juneau cold storage, 20 years ago gave Dick Callahan this African blackwood bagpipe practice chanter.

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Woodshed Kings: Big Pug’s pipes

BIG PUG’S PIPES Back in the early 1980s, when Juneau’s waterfront was between the mining boom and the…