Points North celebrates 20 years
Just a 10-minute drive from Cordova’s city center, Points North Heli-Adventures provides a landscape for adventure, highlighted by a summer camp vibe; an environment Kevin and Jessica Quinn have nurtured and grown for the past 20 years.Points North provides remote guiding in the Chugach mountains via helicopters, allowing guests to ski and snowboard remote slopes of the 1,500 square...
Tanner crab devoured during celebration dinner
Local fishermen, cannery employees and government officials celebrated Cordova’s first Tanner crab fishery in 30 years with plates of fresh crab, shared with friends, family and coworkers.A celebration dinner was held for the “parties responsible for advocating for and executing the fishery” said Mayor Clay Koplin of the private event.The warm sun, now shinning bright well past 6 p.m.,...
Sloughgrass reunites after 17 years
Banjo tones moved rapidly near the microphone, eventually giving way to the mandolin in a seamless transition, like tides moving effortlessly in and out.Four musicians stood around the microphones, shifting in, out and around each other, highlighting each instrument in the small corner of the Powder House.Children bounced up and down, weaving their way between couples dancing to the...
Iceworm Festival brings new energy to town
The 2018 Iceworm Festival is off to an energetic and boisterous start.The celebration began on Saturday morning, Jan. 27, with Iceworm’s Beer Mile, followed by the Food Fair, with volleyball and basketball games throughout the day.“It’s been pretty busy, but everything’s going pretty well so far,” said Kelsey Appleton, vice president of the Iceworm Board. “It’s such a weird...
Christmas holiday season ushers into town
The first weekend of December is historically the official start of the holiday season in Cordova, beginning with the annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony on Dec. 1 in front of the Cordova Chamber of Commerce.The festivities were led by Santa Claus, who arrived via a sleigh pulled by a fire engine, and escorted by the local volunteer fire department....
Iceworm festival goes out with a splash
The 2017 Cordova Iceworm Festival was laid to rest Feb. 5, becoming another Ghost of Iceworm Past – which was the theme of the 56th annual winter festival.The last day of the festival, packed with competitive events and the Iceworm Festival parade, dawned with clear blue skies and temperatures in the low 30s.By 10:30 a.m. some 300 onlookers crowded...
Ghosts of Iceworm Past festival may be best yet
This year’s Iceworm Festival got off to a busy start, with basketball, dodgeball and volleyball games rocking the courts and continuing through this weekend at Bidarki Recreation Center and Mt. Eccles Elementary School.Some 200 hungry Cordovans turned out for the annual food fair on Jan. 28, looking for respite from cooking at home, and the recent weather extremes here.The...
Love, peace and seal grease: NVE’s 23rd Annual Sobriety Celebration and Memorial Potlatch
For more than two decades, the Native Village of Eyak has called for Alaska’s people to come together against the use of drugs and alcohol in the land we call home.Nov. 11-13 marked the 23rd year of NVE’s Annual Sobriety Celebration and Memorial Potlatch.Each year the Sobriety Celebration is harder to top, “but then we do,” emcee Robert Henrichs...
Cordova’s funky fungus festival is always an autumn favorite
There’s fungus among us – several varieties of fungi, that is, in the forests and through the trees all around Cordova.Last weekend was full of all things related to mushrooms during Cordova’s tenth annual Fungus Festival, thanks to the Cordova Chamber of Commerce, The Copper River Prince William Sound Marketing Association, the U.S. Forest Service Cordova Ranger District, the...
