Retiring teacher, coach urges Colony grads to ‘find their 68’
By Jeremiah Bartz Frontiersman.com A football coach using a hockey reference as the centerpiece for his keynote address may
Coming Home
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Berries: The Valley's blue bounty
By Pete LaFrance MAT-SU – There is no finer taste in the world than an Alaska blueberry picked and eaten
This is a happy place
Pete LaFrance Coming Home There are some memories that occasionally float to the surface of my mind that are as
It’s easy to take potable water for granted
By Pete LaFrance Coming Home It’s a strange bit of chemistry when you think about it. Although, I suppose
Any time you go into avalanche country, you play a game of probability
By Pete LaFrance Coming Home Fortunately, the avalanche wasn’t very large. I had just pushed off to start the
Grateful to Boreas for keeping out the weak and the craven
By Pete LaFrance Coming Home The house trembled and rattled as the air slammed against it, and like many people
The origins of ‘Matanuska’
Coming Home By Pete LaFrance Orbiting the sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is an oblong, asphalt
Cartoons cannot be trusted
Coming Home By Pete LaFrance The trees always looked a bit troubled, like they needed a few more years of
An old friendship taken for granted
By Pete LaFrance Coming Home “The problem is that we are all getting old.” She leaned forward in her chair
In search of my inner-1970s Alaskan
By Pete LaFrance Coming Home I was indiscriminately rooting through the stacks of yellowed books that are tucked in a
Political signs spark fond childhood memories
By Pete LaFrance Coming Home When I was a kid I once found an old Dorothy Jones campaign sign in
Mother Nature doesn’t disappoint in Alaska
By Pete LaFrance Coming Home Summer is over, at least according to most Alaskans I speak with recently. Done. Gone.
We are family
By Pete LaFrance Coming Home When we were living in Luxembourg, my wife and I made a trip to the