Dancing (and everything else) in the dark Dept: An estimated 350 homes in the North Kenai area remained without power early today after strong winds Tuesday damaged power poles and lines and left more than 7,000 customers without power at one point.
Unchanging scenery Dept: Anyone who ever dreamed of hopping into their favorite musher's sled at the start of the Iditarod can start bidding in the Idita-rider musher auction at www.iditarodauction.com.
You never know what you'll find Dept: The recent discovery of a Chinese coin more than 300 years old in south-central Yukon is more evidence of extensive pre-Gold Rush trading links among the Chinese, Russian traders and Interior Natives...
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The third one proving that you should know firearm laws when you cross borders. Or, if you know you are breaking the law, do a better job of concealment. And if you don't understand those two statements, you are too dumb to own a firearm...
The 300 yr old coin is really cool, although it is a reminder of the mocking of the comment that Sarah Palin never actually made about being able to see Russia from her house. Not from her house perhaps, but certainly from Alaska. And that proximity to Asia led to the invasion of the Aleutians by Japan in WWII - a brutal, hard fought battle.
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