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Brooksville Elementary Students Raise Money for Trip to Alaska
Students at Brooksville Elementary School want to head north to Alaska and are counting on food to help get them there. The 7th and 8th graders are hosting a breakfast to raise money for their trip. It's at the school Saturday morning from 7 to 10. It's just six bucks per person or 15 dolla . . .
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Alaska, off the beaten path
Most take in America's last frontier from the deck of a cruise ship, but there are many other ways to enjoy the Frozen North up close and personal Sarah Palin may have put Alaska on the political map, but to many of her fellow citizens, the 49th state remains a formidable frontier.
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Princess Family Cruisetours to Alaska Return for Second Season
Specially Designed Tours Add a Variety of Included Extras Especially for Families
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Glendale libraries' Big Read focuses on 'Call of the Wild'
Jack London's ''Call of the Wild'' will be the focus of the Big Read Sept. 25-Oct. 31 at Glendale libraries.
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Horse-rider partnership endures through grueling 24-hour race
On July 24, Paschal and Deb Karl saddled up to attempt the 55thAnnual Tevis Cup Western States 100-mile, one-day endurance ride.In one of the most challenging and technically difficult endurancerides in the world, horse-and-rider teams are tested throughgrueling terrain through the Sierra Nevada Mountains in hot, Julytemperatures.
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Phil Bronstein: Are Bikini Baristas 'Bad Feminists?'
Flickr I won't Iditarod my way into the spectacle of Sarah Palin appropriating feminism as her very own dogma. But it's just one recent example...
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Fur Rondy sled dog race will kick out a record purse again
The world's richest sprint dog race confirmed on Monday that February's purse will match the record $80,000 paid out in February -- with at least $1,000 of day money purses thrown in.
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Scene and Heard: Oregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation, The Grotto
Benefits are held to help support programs that help prevent blindness and deafness and the Grotto National Sanctuary and Shrine.
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2 found dead in plane wreckage near Mount Susitna
A small plane headed from Anchorage to an Iditarod Trail hunting lodge crashed nose-first into a Susitna River sandbar Tuesday night, killing the pilot and passenger, safety investigators said Wednesday.
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Explaining the Alaska Republican showdown
Pundits seem confused about the Alaska senate race but they just don't understand the state. Alaska - Republican - Joe Miller - Lisa Murkowski - United States
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