Culture Week engages, inspires Mt. Eccles students

On the final day of this year’s Indigenous People’s Culture Week at Mt. Eccles Elementary school, elder Bob Ladd told a story first shared with him by an uncle who grew up in the village of Nuchek on Hinchinbrook Island.In 1918, the flu epidemic forced the residents of Nuchek and many other neighboring villages to move to Cordova. Ladd...

Wind storm sends 100-foot boat adrift and marina building to the ground

A wind storm with gusts hitting nearly 100 miles an hour beat down on Cordova on Oct. 23, setting the anchored Polar Bear adrift, damaging structures and trees, and sending debris flying everywhere.In the height of it all, the Polar Bear, a roughly 100-foot long retired fish processor anchored outside of the breakwater broke loose and drifted quickly down...

Cordova Ikumat Dance Group performs at Quyana Alaska

The Cordova Ikumat Dance Group was in the spotlight in Anchorage on Oct. 18, as one of more than a dozen Native dance groups performing during two days of Quyana Alaska.Native dance groups from across the state gathered at the Dena’ina Center in Anchorage Oct. 18 and 19, to offer evening performances for thousands of visitors there for the...

Getting out the vote

Nick Carltikoff, of Nondalton, helped hand out dozens of small buckets at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention in Anchorage, urging the state’s Native population to vote in the general election on Nov. 6.Carltikoff said he helped to start the Spirit Camp in Cordova, as an employee of Chugach Alaska Corp., and worked at the Spirit Camp for 23...

USCG’s Haunted Sycamore attracts big crowd

As the sun began to set, fog billowed over rusty chains, smashed pumpkins and tombstones, and eventually made its way to the water’s edge where the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Sycamore rested in the blue haze.Props including the fog machine, fake body parts and blood-stained puddles were just a few of many that adorned the parking lot and cutter...

18 take part in 4th Girls on the Run

Eighteen girls decked out in their Halloween finest, ran the fourth annual 5K Girls on the Run on Saturday, Oct. 27, celebrating their fitness after three months of training, and cheered on by a crowd of supporters.“We ask the girls ‘What makes you happy?’” said Tania Carson, coordinator for GOTR, as she laced up her at shoes, dressed as...

First-time hunter draws tag, harvests moose

Steam rose from the chest cavity of Debra Ethier’s freshly killed cow moose, after the first few cuts, as she, J.J. and Jack Stevenson worked in the brisk autumn air to harvest the animal.With both hands, Ethier held back the front leg while J.J. Stevenson made sharp cuts along the moose’s rib cage, opening it up to remove the...
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