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Sunday, May 19, 2024
Story, photos and video courtesy of Valdez Schools Ten students took their instrumental skills to the Valley Jazz Festival over the weekend. While there, students participated in six clinics on instrumental and vocal jazz with music educators and professional musicians to hone their skills and experiment with new music ideas. […]
The longest running celebration of ice climbing in the world just added one more year to its history. The 36th annual Valdez Ice Climbing Festival attracted scores of climbers from around the country for a weekend of steep waterfalls, live music and winter weather. KCHU’s Shahmeer Azmat reports. Click on […]
You’ve heard us talk about it almost as much as we talk about the weather window and the big yellow building. So here’s how it’s done. Hat’s off to the City of Valdez crews!
link to AP slideshow ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Back-to-back earthquakes measuring 7.0 and 5.7 rocked buildings and shattered roads Friday morning in Anchorage, sending people running into the streets and briefly triggering a warning to residents in Kodiak to flee to higher ground for fear of a tsunami. The warning […]
The Valdez Ice Climbing Festival February 16th to 19th welcomes climbers to learn and explore the routes in iconic Keystone Canyon. Valdez Adventure Alliance brings outdoor fun indoors at the Civic Center. February 16th Telluride Mountainfilm. Beer garden opens at 6:30, film at 7:30. Admission $10.00 February 17th concert dance […]
On March 17th the Valdez Mayor’s Cup Snowmachine Race will be celebrating its 20th anniversary. Curt Wilson participated in the race from 1982 through 1984, traveling to Valdez to do so. He thinks the original event ran from around 1975 through 1985. When Wilson moved to Valdez in 1996, he […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans rammed a $1.5 trillion overhaul of business and personal income taxes through the House Thursday, edging toward the code’s biggest rewrite in three decades and the first major legislative triumph for President Donald Trump and the GOP after 10 bumpy months of controlling government. The mostly […]
Valdez Arts Council Presents…………….. Keola Beamer and Henry Kapono with Moanalani Beamer Tuesday, October 10th, 7pm Valdez Civic Center. Put on your favorite Hawaiian shirt or muumuu and come share some Aloha with friends and family! “Keola Beamer and Henry Kapono are two legends of Hawaiian music. Each became an […]
FROM LEVITATION 49 WEB SITE- LINK BELOW What is Confluence: The mission of Confluence is to connect and cultivate leaders in Alaska’s outdoor recreation industry in order to create a more unified and impactful voice promoting and expanding the state’s outdoor recreation industry and, in turn, improve state and local […]
We are committed to finding efficiencies in state government. Here’s a look at some of the things we’ve already done. In order for Alaska to solve our current fiscal crisis, we must discuss how we’ll bring in additional revenue. Some of the ways the State of Alaska has cut costs […]
