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• Classic collection: Book provides detail, context to Fairbanks' automobile museum

  January 22nd, 2012
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner by Libbie Martin / Book Review A 1930s scene from the Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum. The book “Alaska's Fountainhead Collection: Vintage Treads and Thread,” by Nancy DeWitt, was published last year. Ronn Murray photo Photo courtesy of the ...

• Some rules in life are unwritten, others are clearly stated

  January 22nd, 2012
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner by Greg Hill / At the Library FAIRBANKS — Whose curiosity wouldn't be aroused by learning about the new Chinese “World Chocolate Wonderland?” Roald Dahl's immortal Willy Wonka was conjured by reading about “China's first theme park made entirely of ...

• Finance analyst says next budget plan 'critical to Alaska's future'

  January 22nd, 2012
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner by Dermot Cole/ cole@newsminer.com FAIRBANKS — As David Teal, the head of the legislative finance division, drafted his overview of the next proposed state budget, his Juneau staff members found it “pessimistic, even borderline depressing,” Teal told ...

• Nanooks' Karr working on organizing new WCHA

  January 22nd, 2012
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner by Danny Martin/dmartin@newsminer.com FAIRBANKS — The revamped Western Collegiate Hockey Association doesn't drop its first puck until October 2013. However, administrators from its nine members, including the Alaska Nanooks of the University of ...

• Funding gap halts drop-out program in Fairbanks schools

  January 23rd, 2012
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner by Reba Lean / rlean@newsminer.com FAIRBANKS — A program that paired guidance coaches with struggling students decreased high school dropout rates during the past five years, but the local school district ended the effort last year.

• Rick Hinkey revels in his new role at Big Brothers Big Sisters Alaska, Fairbanks

  January 23rd, 2012
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner by Reba Lean / rlean@newsminer.com FAIRBANKS — From the top floor of the Sadler's Building downtown, Rick Hinkey oversees hundreds of relationships that produce both educational and emotional results. Hinkey is the new program director at Big Brothers ...

• Journalism students launch University of Alaska salary database

  January 23rd, 2012
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner by Jeff Richardson / jrichardson@newsminer.com FAIRBANKS — Student journalists have launched a searchable database of University of Alaska employee salaries, a move they say is designed to add transparency to campus spending while student tuition ...

• Fairbanks militia leader, 2 others indicted on murder conspiracy charges

  January 23rd, 2012

• Compulsive buying can land you in debt, or worse

  January 23rd, 2012
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner by Roxie Dinstel / Pinching Pennies FAIRBANKS - Are you a compulsive shopper? Do you always find something at the store you just can't live without, yet the next week there is some other latest and greatest that commands your attention?

• Fairbanks teachers union responds to unfair labor charge

  January 23rd, 2012
  Fairbanks Daily News-Miner by Reba Lean / rlean@newsminer.com FAIRBANKS - The head of the Fairbanks Education Association has criticized an unfair labor charge filed last week by the school district and has said the union's negotiators will show up to a scheduled bargaining ...

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