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Living & Growing: Share light this season

Reach out beyond your typical day and look for ways to serve others.

  • Dec 1, 2022
  • By Donna Leigh
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This photo shows a bowl of popcorn. "I love popcorn. When I play those ice-breaker games where you introduce yourself and name a favorite food, I always say, 'Peggy, popcorn.' writes Peggy McKee Barnhills. "It has a pleasing alliteration, making it easy for people to remember my name. Plus, it’s the truth. I love popcorn." (Georgia Vagim / Unsplash)

Gimme a Smile: You are what you eat — an ode to popcorn

You are what you eat. I am popcorn.

  • Nov 26, 2022
  • By Peggy McKee Barnhill
This photo shows a bowl of popcorn. "I love popcorn. When I play those ice-breaker games where you introduce yourself and name a favorite food, I always say, 'Peggy, popcorn.' writes Peggy McKee Barnhills. "It has a pleasing alliteration, making it easy for people to remember my name. Plus, it’s the truth. I love popcorn." (Georgia Vagim / Unsplash)
Kirby Day shakes hands with City and Borough of Juneau Mayor Beth Weldon at the Monday night Assembly meeting. Day was awarded a special recognition for his work administrating the city’s Tourism Best Management Practices program. (Clarise Larson / Juneau Empire)

Assembly honors Kirby Day, Gastineau landslide geologists

Day steps down from his positions with Tourism Best Management Practices after 25 years

Kirby Day shakes hands with City and Borough of Juneau Mayor Beth Weldon at the Monday night Assembly meeting. Day was awarded a special recognition for his work administrating the city’s Tourism Best Management Practices program. (Clarise Larson / Juneau Empire)
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Honoring the work and legacy of Sol Neely

Our university community is forever impoverished by his walking into the interior…

  • Nov 19, 2022
  • By UAS humanities faculty
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Coming Out: Making philosophy

Philosophy is biography, nothing more.

  • Nov 18, 2022
  • Jane Hale
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Living & Growing: What is gratitude?

Let us reflect during these days on this virtue of gratitude

  • Nov 17, 2022
  • By Joab Cano
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Thank you letter for the week of Nov. 13

Thank you, merci, danke, gracias, gunalchéesh.

  • Nov 13, 2022
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"My whole life it’s been all binge, no purge. And so I don’t have 'dad' bod so much as 'double' dad bod." writes Geoff Kirsch. (Diana Polekhina / Unsplash)

Slack Tide: Double dad bod

Sometimes I need a good ribbing — even if I can no longer see my ribs.

  • Nov 12, 2022
  • By Geoff Kirsch
"My whole life it’s been all binge, no purge. And so I don’t have 'dad' bod so much as 'double' dad bod." writes Geoff Kirsch. (Diana Polekhina / Unsplash)
This photo shows Fireweed Award winners Gina Heffern, Gretchen Glaspy and Laura McDermott. (Courtesy Photo)

Hospital announces first recipients of Fireweed Award

Award recognizes exceptional care and service to the community.

  • Nov 11, 2022
  • Juneau Empire
This photo shows Fireweed Award winners Gina Heffern, Gretchen Glaspy and Laura McDermott. (Courtesy Photo)
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Living & Growing: Inner vision

“Our inner vision is what will protect us.”

  • Nov 10, 2022
  • By Page Bridges
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Living & Growing: Don’t you know who I am?

Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts from every nation the one… Continue reading

  • Nov 3, 2022
  • By Guy Crockroft
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Thank you letter for the week of Oct.30

Thank you, merci, danke, gracias, gunalchéesh.

  • Oct 30, 2022
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"I have a close relationship with my computer. I’ll call her Betty, as long as when she calls me, she doesn’t call me Al," writes Peggy McKee Barnhill.(Peggy Mckee Barnhill / For the Juneau Empire)

Gimme a Smile: My computer—my BFF

Let me tell you about my best friend…

"I have a close relationship with my computer. I’ll call her Betty, as long as when she calls me, she doesn’t call me Al," writes Peggy McKee Barnhill.(Peggy Mckee Barnhill / For the Juneau Empire)
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Slack Tide: Halloween isn’t just the name of an overplayed movie franchise

Help bring the ratings up: celebrate Halloween 2022!

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An award-winning edition of the Gastineau Heritage News hangs in the newsroom of the Juneau Empire. The most recent edition of the biannual newsletter concerns the lurid history of newspapers— including The Boob — in the area. (Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire)

Historical society recognized with statewide honor

Gastineau Channel Historical Society extends invite to annual meeting, too.

  • Oct 21, 2022
  • Juneau Empire
An award-winning edition of the Gastineau Heritage News hangs in the newsroom of the Juneau Empire. The most recent edition of the biannual newsletter concerns the lurid history of newspapers— including The Boob — in the area. (Ben Hohenstatt / Juneau Empire)
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Recognitions for the week of Oct. 23

Local students earn academic honors and awards.

  • Oct 21, 2022
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Thank you letter for the week of Oct. 23

Thank you, merci, danke, gracias, gunalchéesh.

  • Oct 21, 2022
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Adam Bauer

Living & Growing: The Promise of world peace

Humanity can confront this supreme trial with confidence in its ultimate outcome.

  • Oct 20, 2022
  • By Adam Bauer
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Thank you letters for the week of Oct. 16

Thank you, merci, danke, gracias, gunalchéesh.

  • Oct 16, 2022
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Jane Hale

Coming Out: Like a Jane

I’m going to travel as myself, like a Jane, whatever a Jane might be.

  • Oct 14, 2022
  • By Jane Hale
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