Alaska
Chugach Fat Bike Fest Thanks
It takes a village! Thanks for all the local support for the Inaugural Chugach Fat Bike Bash: Copper Valley Telecom, Best Western Valdez Harbor Inn, Mountain Sky Hotel, Pangaea Adventures, Vertical Solutions Helicopters, John Anderson, Sue Stade Bergstrom, Karen Ables, the awesome crew at Valdez Department of Streets and Shops […]
Valdez Ice Climbing Festival 2016
By Sue Bergstrom for Valdez City News – The Valdez Ice Climbing Festival was started in 1983 and it continues to grow. This year’s festival was the biggest ever. Participation in this year’s event doubled for the third year in a row. On Saturday approximately three hundred climbers took part, […]
Valdez Ice Fest 2016 – Feb 12th through 15th
Valdez Ice Fest 2016-February 12th through 15th. See flyer below. Advertisement
AKDOT & PF Meets with Community in Valdez
By Sue Bergstrom for Valdez City News – Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities Northern Region Director, David Miller met with members of the community at the Valdez Civic Center on Tuesday January Twelfth to discuss the impacts of proposed cuts in service. Attendees were given a handout with […]
How Valdez Steps Up When the Chips are Down
By Sue Bergstrom for Valdez City News – Advertisement When tragedy strikes in a small town, it touches everyone. In Valdez there’s seldom more than one degree of separation between any two people. Everyone steps up to offer assistance; donate funds or food or clothes, cook, watch children, foster pets […]
Valdez Town Hall Meeting with Marijuana Board Director
By Sue Bergstrom for Valdez City News – Friday evening a people gathered in the Valdez Civic Center auditorium for a Town Hall Meeting with State of Alaska Marijuana Control Board Director, Cynthia Franklin. She began the meeting with a presentation that not only clarified the statute itself but showed […]
Valdez Artist Jan Whalen
By Sue Bergstrom for Valdez City News – Although she makes, displays and sells beautiful things, Jan Whalen is above all a teacher and an advocate for making art. “Art is just as important as any other subject in school, and it should be part of EVERY person’s day, every […]
Assimilation and Healing
By Sue Bergstrom for Valdez City News – The World’s Boarding School history is brutal. But in this acclaimed play, Natives run the school and Whites are being assimilated. Quoted from the Assimilation Kickstarter campaign. Friday night’s performance of Assimilation was not a typical night at the theater. The play […]
Bob Reeve; Valdez Aviation Pioneer
By Sue Bergstrom for Valdez City News – Robert Campbell Reeve is best known as the founder of Reeve Aleutian Airways. He began his Alaska career flying out of Valdez in 1932. Before leaving Valdez in 1938, Reeve made over 2,000 glacier landings, hauling over one million pounds of freight. […]
