LAST POSTS

02/02/2017

By Gretchen Wehmhoff Published in The Echo News 2-2-2017 Eagle River residents had another chance to view the progress of the Eagle River Traffic Mitigation project last Thursday.  DOWL, along with Brooks & Associates, held a public information meeting in the Eagle River Town Center.  This is the sixth public meeting relaying the progress of the project. The Community room, filled with curious residents, business owners and cyclists, was lined with nearly a dozen maps and charts showing

02/02/2017

By Gretchen Wehmhoff Published in The Echo News 2-2-2017 The members of the Chugiak Community Council (CCC) gather every third Thursday in the basement of the Elsie Oberg Building on the Old Glenn Hwy.  Four new officers were elected at the Jan. 19 meeting. After Board members were selected, the officers were elected from the Board.  The new or re-elected officers for 2017 are President, Randy McCain; Vice-President, Jake Horazdovsky; Secretary, Darrel Parks; Treasurer, Burke Wonnell and

01/26/2017

By Gretchen Wehmhoff Published in The Echo News 1-26-2017 In a two-page letter, the Municipal Ombudsman concluded the Heritage Land Bank (HLB) and it’s contractor, Agnew::Beck, met and exceeded Anchorage Municipal Code (AMC)  of public notice actions relating to the Carol Creek Project near Fire Lake Drive.             Ombudsman Darrel Hess responded to complaints by two Chugiak residents,  Kim Donnelly and Sandra Quimby. Both women challenged the public input process and felt that

01/19/2017

By Gretchen Wehmhoff Published in The Echo News 1-19-2017 Jean Truscott has been spinning wool since the 80’s.  Once a month, she joins a group of spinners at the Eagle River Library for two hours of spinning and conversation as part of the library community programs. Truscott had been coming to the group the longest.  She sits in a stuffed chair with a double-treadle spinning wheel tilted towards her.  Truscott says the tilt gives a more natural feel as she guides the wool through the eye

01/19/2017

By Gretchen Wehmhoff Published in The ECHO News 1-19-2017    Residents of Aurora Borealis Road could loose local road maintenance unless the Chugiak Birchwood Eagle River Rural Road Service Area (CBERRRSA) Board of Supervisors and Eagle River Street Maintenance (ERSM) can generate solutions to problems facing a well-loved road near Peters Creek in Chugiak. These problems including municipal platting discrepancies, the road crossing private property and a guide fence of sorts that is made of

01/12/2017

Olivia Gatewood, age 8, popped her head out of the three-foot mound of packed snow. Her cheeks glowed red and snow caked the ruff of her blue parka. She grinned as she crawled through the entrance. Her sisters, Julia age 9, and Sophia age eight, garden spades in hand, encouraged her to keep moving. They wanted a turn at hollowing out the pile of snow.

01/08/2017

Playing sports outside and crafting with her mother inside kept Donna Pulliam and other local children busy in the Interior Alaska town of Tok. Generations lived without television or local radio. Inside, Pulliam made tassels for her mother’s beaded crafts and mukluks while the family listened to Air Force radio. Income was scarce in Tok and things were expensive.

12/29/2016

Three organizations have come together to build an addiction recovery facility on Eklutna, Inc land at the lower end of Eklutna Lake Road.

12/22/2016

The Heritage Land Bank (HLB) approved a plan Dec. 8, adding higher density housing provisions to the Carol Creek land use plan, amid opposition from the Chugiak Community Council(CCC) and Rep. Dan Sadler on their behalf. The new plan, an update from the original 2010 land use plan, would zone a parcel above and around the Harry McDonald Center as CE R3 and CE R2M with allowances for higher density developments than the prior 2010 plan. It was not, however, the plan that had been pre