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May 16, 2013 Turn Back the Pages - May 6, 1982
May 6, 1982 The Tundra Drums Demantle found not guilty – A six person jury has acquitted Joe Demantle Fr. of Tuluksak of two charges of taking game without a license and transporting illegally taken game. The four men, two women jury needed only...
Features April 18, 2013 
Back When... Gardening on the Delta
A young girl and boy stand in a cabbage patch in McGrath sometime around 1914. Old Town McGrath was a meeting place for neighboring villagers and in 1904 Abraham Appel established a trading post at...
By The Tundra Drums Features April 18, 2013 Turn back the pages - April 15, 1982
Compiled by Julie Rosier Cold may delay start of herring fishing season — Strong north winds, below freezing temperatures and low clouds are the forecast for the rest of April. A late spring is expected and could delay the opening of herring...
By The Tundra Drums Features April 4, 2013 Turn back the pages - April 3, 1986
Compiled by Julie Rosier Council delays decision on retention of engineers – In spite of pressure from City Manager Ivan Widom for a decision on whether or not to retain the current engineering firm of Silides and Galliett, city council members at...
By The Tundra Drums Features March 21, 2013 Turn back the pages - March 19, 1987
Compiled by Julie Rosier Butcher wins the Iditarod – again – Susan Butcher outfoxed and outran Rick Swenson to reach the historic gold rush town Wednesday in record time to win her second consecutive Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Butcher who...
By The Tundra Drums Features March 7, 2013 Turn back the pages — March 5, 1987
Compiled by Julie Rosier Lone Wolf acquitted, then arrested – Charles Lone Wolf, 34, of Bethel, was found not guilty by a jury of two counts of misdemeanor bootlegging last Wednesday evening, and arrested about two hours later on charges of interfe...
By The Tundra Drums Features February 21, 2013 Turn back the pages — Feb. 18, 1988
Compiled by Julie Rosier Kuskokwim River salmon users’ ‘working group’ to form soon — All users of Kuskokwim River salmon have an unprecedented opportunity in these next few months to help shape the management of their fishery this 1988...
Features February 7, 2013 
Back When...
In 1914 the Kuskokwim Reconnaissance survey party, known as Party No. 11 of the Alaska Railroad Commission expedition, surveys the Kuskokwim area. James Lennox McPherson, a civil engineer, and his...
By The Tundra Drums Features December 27, 2012 Turn back the pages — Dec. 31, 1986
Compiled by Julie Rosier Iranians find refuge, religions freedom in Bethel — The frightening reality of government oppression in various, far-reaching parts of today’s shrinking world is as close as the nearest refugee. And while it is easy for...
Features December 13, 2012 
Back When...
Chief Nikolai allowed W.E. Priestly to take his photograph, along with his sled dogs, in 1909 along the Kuskokwim River. At the time dog sleds and boat were the primary transportation in Alaska....
Features December 13, 2012 Turn back the pages — Dec. 18, 1986
Compiled by Julie Rosier Avoiding False Pass, Fish Board decides not to decide — The longtime dispute between the False Pass interception fishery and commercial and subsistence fishery interests in Bristol Bay and the Kuskokwim and Yukon rivers...
By The Tundra Drums Features November 29, 2012 Turn back the pages — Nov. 19, 1977
Compiled by Julie Rosier AVCP convention passes 45 resolutions — The Association of Village Council Presidents meeting in Bethel on Nov. 7-9 turned out 46 resolutions and all passed but one asking for the prohibition of the sale of subsistence...
By The Tundra Drums Features November 1, 2012 Turn back the pages — Nov. 5, 1987
Compiled by Julie Rosier LKSD employees given option not to travel to Kipnuk — Those LKSD (Lower Kuskokwim School District) employees uncomfortable with ‘pat-down searches’ and body searches are not being required by district officials to go...
By The Tundra Drums Features October 18, 2012 Turn back the pages — Oct. 15, 1977
Compiled by Julie Rosier Tanana Chief Burns — Fire Chief John Sanchez commented today that “Once again Fire Prevention week started off with a big bang.” That big bang he was referring to was the burning of the Tanana Chief early Monday...
By The Tundra Drums Features October 4, 2012 Turn back the pages — Oct. 5, 1974
Compiled by Julie Rosier Dry Again — It almost seems anti-climactic. All the friendly (and unfriendly) debates are over, the bumper stickers already look years old, and there’s a certain air of calm finality in the crisp October air. Bethel will...
By The Tundra Drums Features September 20, 2012 Turn back the pages — Sept. 25, 1986
Compiled by Julie Rosier Vaska calls for unity in reapportionment — The political power of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta was undermined and weakened by a 1981 state reapportionment board decision to divide the region into three separate house...
By John Active Features September 6, 2012 In the beginning
Editor’s note: John Active has again given the Drums permission to reprint “In the beginning” in The Drums. 1974 Editor’s note: The following Eskimo legend was recorded by John Active of the KYUK staff. It will appear as the introduction to...
Features August 23, 2012 
Back when...
Charles W. Loomis Collection, University of Alaska Fairbanks Lee Loomis stands on the ice with Bethel children in 1915. (Send your “Back when...” photo to the Drums for publication,...
By The Tundra Drums Features August 23, 2012 Turn back the pages — August 20, 1977
Compiled by Julie Rosier Erosion As Old As The Hills — Editor’s note: Each year the winding Kuskokwim River cuts into the river bank removing needed and sometimes used land. Since 1935, alarmed residents have asked for help stemming the erosion...
Features August 9, 2012 
Fireweed becomes a tasty treat
Roxie Rodgers Dinstel and Leslie Shallcross Fireweed is a tall perennial herb with numerous dense, narrow lance-shaped leaves. Bright reddish-purple flowers grow in long terminal clusters and are...
By The Tundra Drums Features August 9, 2012 Turn back the pages — Aug. 12, 1982
Compiled by Julie Rosier $1.5 million in state projects ready for Delta — Requests for proposals for eight projects totaling more than $1.5 million will soon be advertised in the Delta, according to Pat Poland, Deputy Director of the Division of...
By The Tundra Drums Features June 11, 2012 Turn back the pages — June 18, 1977
Compiled by Julie Rosier Weinberg Cleared By PTPC — A decision by the Alaska Professional Teaching Practices Commission cleared B.A. Weinberg, superintendent of schools for the LKREAA, of charges brought against him by five area teachers in 1976...
By Roxie Rodgers Dinstel Features January 23, 2012 Great meals from a well stocked pantry
Imagine you’re on your way home and you remember that you haven’t planned (or thawed) anything for supper. Many times the first thing that crosses the mind is to stop for pizza or fast food. But, take out meals can damage both your budget and...
By Roxie Rodgers Dinstel Features January 23, 2012 Simple tips for staying warm through the winter
It’s January and the temperatures are hovering in that 30 below region. Though we’d like to complain about the temperatures — and we do complain — this is pretty normal for us. It is Alaska and it is cold in the wintertime. However, we do...
