Serving Alaska's Prince William Sound & Copper River Valley
Saturday, February 22, 2025
Valdez Rock Climbing Festival 2015 will be Friday, May 22 through Monday, May 25 and will include, climbing, climbing clinics, climbing competitionss, climbing camaraderie, climbing irony, climbing chatter. All ages and skills welcome to join us exploring the crags around Valdez. Lots of evening entertainment with music, dancing, spaghetti feed […]
By Sue Bergstrom for VCN – The Copper River Watershed began recognizing a community member who went above and beyond in caring for the watershed by providing leadership and inspiration in the fall of 2013. The first winner was Paul Swartzbart of Cordova, awarded at the combined Wild Food Feast […]
By Sue Bergstrom for VCN – Between five pm and seven pm on Friday, March 27th, one Valdez parking lot was not only full of vehicles but full of people scurrying back and forth through the rain between Valdez Museum and Historical Archives and Valdez Consortium Library to pore over […]
By Sue Bergstrom for VCN – In May 1985, Dr. Gordy Klatt walked and ran for 24 hours around a track in Tacoma and raised over twenty thousand dollars for the American Cancer Society. The following year 339 people in 19 teams joined him and raised thirty three thousand dollars. That […]
By Sue Bergstrom for VCN – Alaska has a unique history in aviation. Wikipedia defines ‘bush flying’ as aircraft operations carried out in remote, inhospitable regions of the world in rough terrain where there are often no prepared landing strips or runways. It doesn’t define bush pilots at all, somewhat […]
Robert King, the Alaska State Archeologist for the Bureau of Land Management will be speaking in Valdez on Thursday March 12th and 13th. The first speech, entitled Curious Tales, Stories of Dog Mushers with Connections to the Copper River Basin, will be at The Valdez Consortium Library from 7:00 to […]
If you live and vote in Valdez, here are the various precinct locations to cast your ballot. Precinct No. 1 – Valdez Teen Center Precinct No. 2 – Valdez City Council Chambers Precinct No. 3 – Robe River Fire Station Polls are open from 7 a.m to 8 p.m. please contact […]
