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
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Milnor, McGeorge to marry Oct. 15
Courtesy photo — Gary and Sandy McGeorge of Wasilla announce the upcoming marriage of their daughter, Dani Leigh, to Daniel Lucas
WHAT WIND?
By GREG JOHNSON Frontiersman WASILLA — Not much could keep Hunter Anderson from his hot dog. The Wasilla 4-year-old
FINAL TRIBUTE
By VICKI NAEGELE For the Frontiersman MAT-SU — Billy L. Fikes always loved white Cadillacs. The Big Lake man drove
Fikes clan wants to preserve more local history
With the 1954 Cadillac hearse project finished, the Fikes family is eyeing other needs in the Museum of Alaska Transportation
Russian Hounds
By Vicki Naegele For the Frontiersman A hundred years ago, a Sutton woman’s five borzois could only have been
A-peeling hobby
By Vicki Naegele For the Frontiersman Apples won’t grow in Alaska. Someone should tell Dan Elliott that. In the
Flying in style
By Heather A. Resz Frontiersman Everywhere Fred Keller and Judy Foster drive their red scale-model “Radio Flyer” wagon these
IN TRACTORS HE TRUSTS
BY ANDREW WELLNER Frontiersman WASILLA — Dick Wilson said it was probably his grandkids who got him into collecting miniature pedal-
PEAK PICKS
Photo Editor Robert DeBerry views Saturday's Harvest Festival at Pyrah's Pioneer Peak Farm in the Butte
PEEK AT THE PAST: Sept. 20, 1989
Here’s what made news in the Mat-Su 21 years ago, from the Sept. 20, 1989, issues of The
VPA scores hit with first play of season
By SEAN TALBOT Review Twice in three days I saw Kelly Larson’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Pride and
PLAY IS THE THING
By GREG JOHNSON Frontiersman WASILLA — An appreciative audience cheered as Larry Bottjen kicked the Mat-Su Borough manager. “Oh, yeah,