by Hank Nuwer | Jun 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
Well-known Alaska pilot, business leader and TV personality Jim Tweto, 68, died Friday in an airplane crash on the coast of remote western Alaska. Also killed in the crash was his longtime friend Shane Reynolds, 45, an Idaho fishing guide known for taking clients out... by Hank Nuwer | Jun 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Tanana Valley Farmers Market celebration this weekend made me curious about the first-ever event. I found the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner edition from July 20, 1973, with a short article buried on Page 3. The headline read: “Farmers market here Saturday.” The...
by Hank Nuwer | Jun 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
First published in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, June 20, 2023 My wife, Gosia, and I were petless until a mid-size toad came into our lives not long before we moved to Alaska. He excavated a home in the second step of our stoop. A chunk of concrete fell out and...