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Alaska Dispatch

In 2009, Alice Rogoff, former U.S. News & World Report chief financial officer and wife of Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein, bought a majority share in the website, and the organization moved into a hangar located along Anchorage's Merrill Field Airport, where Rogoff, a licensed pilot, also houses her Cessna 206.

Aleutian Range

The Aleutian Range is a major mountain range of southwest Alaska, extending from Chakachamna Lake (80 miles/130 km southwest of Anchorage) to Unimak Island, at the tip of the Alaska Peninsula.

Anchorage Alaska Temple

The west side of the Anchorage Alaska Temple features the seven stars of the Big Dipper pointing to the North Star, a symbol found on the Alaskan flag and on the Salt Lake Temple.

Anchorage Memorial Park

Angelus Memorial Park, a private cemetery near the Seward Highway in south Anchorage, of similar stature in the community to this cemetery

Autumn Tears

Influences include ancient chants, classical music, and contemporary artists (Dead Can Dance, Anchorage, Stoa, Enya).

Balto

The serum was transported by train from Anchorage to Nenana, where the first musher embarked as part of a relay aimed at delivering the needed serum to Nome.

Brandee McCoskey

Brandee Dawn McCoskey (born February 2, 1979) is a Miss Alaska Teen USA titleholder from Anchorage, Alaska, who competed at Miss Teen USA 1996.

Castner's Cutthroats

After spending a year as a vice-president of the fledgling Alaska Airlines, he founded a cold storage and wholesaling business in Anchorage, and was regarded as an up-and-coming leader of the local business community.

Chuck Henry

He began his career in broadcasting at KHVH-TV in Honolulu as news anchor-reporter from 1966 to 1971, with a short interval in Anchorage, Alaska, as a news anchor-reporter for KENI-TV from 1967 to 1968.

Clark Air Base

By 1980, the base had grown to such an extent that weekly Flying Tigers Boeing 747 service to St. Louis (via Kadena AB Japan; Anchorage; and Los Angeles) had begun.

Courtenay Boyle

Boyle observed that the Spanish vessels hauled into San Pedro, an anchorage to the eastward of Cape de Gata, under the protection of a fort and several schooners and mortar launches.

Craig Stowers

In 2004, he left Clapp, Peterson and Stowers when he was appointed a Superior Court Judge for the Third Judicial District in Anchorage by Governor Frank Murkowski.

Ethan Berkowitz

He was first elected to represent District 26 (Anchorage) in 1996, and then re-elected in 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2004.

Fort Manoel

It stands on Manoel Island in Marsamxett Harbour to the north west of Valletta and commands the entrance to Marsamxett Harbour and the anchorage of Sliema Creek.

Freedoms of the air

Anchorage is still used by some mainland Chinese and Taiwanese airlines for flights to the U.S. and Toronto until 2000s.

George Biddlecombe

As master of the Baltic fleet, 14 March 1854, he reconnoitered the southern parts of Åland, Hanko Bay, Baro Sund, and the anchorage of Suomenlinna, preparatory to taking the fleet to those places.

Hoquiam, Washington

Anton Anderson - chief engineer of Alaska Railroad; Mayor of Anchorage; worked as a surveyor in Hoquiam.

Japanese aircraft carrier Taihō

Taihō was then moved to Lingga Roads, a naval anchorage off Sumatra, where she joined veteran carriers Shokaku and Zuikaku in the First Carrier Division, First Mobile Force.

KABA

KNIK-LP, a low-power television station (channel 6) licensed to serve Anchorage, Alaska, United States, which held the call sign KABA-LP from June to September 2009

KATH-LD

On November 9, 2012, GCI, through subsidiary Denali Media Holdings, announced plans to purchase KATH and KSCT from Dan Etulain's North Star Television Network, along with KTVA in Anchorage from MediaNews Group.

KENI Radio Building

The reinforced concrete two story building was owned by Cap Lathrop, who had worked with Porreca on Lathrop's Fourth Avenue Theatre.

KXLJ-LD

The deal will make them sister stations to NBC affiliate KATH-LD in Juneau and its satellite KSCT-LP in Sitka, as well as fellow CBS affiliate KTVA in Anchorage, Alaska.

KYES

KYES-TV, a television station (channel 5) licensed to Anchorage, Alaska, United States

KYUR

The station brought Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and some other PBS programs to Anchorage in the early 1970s, before KAKM signed on in 1975.

MV Transportation

Anchorage School District Anchorage, AK MV took over Forsythe Transportation's contract for the ASD in December 2011.

Nenana River

The upper valley of the river furnishes approximately 100 mi (160 km) of the northern route of both the Alaska Railroad and the Parks Highway (Alaska State Highway 3) connecting Fairbanks and Anchorage.

No. 8 Squadron RCAF

In June 1942 in response to the Japanese attack on the Aleutians, it was moved to Alaska, operating from Elmendorf Army Airfield (Anchorage), with small detachments stationed at Naval Air Station Kodiak and Marks Air Force Base (Nome).

Northwest Airlines Flight 4422

The aircraft refueled at Anchorage (Merrill Field) and took off at 8:12 p.m. to continue on to its destination, New York City (LaGuardia Airport).

Palmer Road

The original alignment and name of the Glenn Highway between Anchorage and Palmer, Alaska; extant segments parallel today's highway

Password Plus and Super Password

However, a viewer in Anchorage, Alaska called the United States Secret Service and reported that "Quinn" was really Kerry Lee Ketchum, who was wanted on state fraud charges in Alaska and Indiana as well as federal mail fraud charges in California.

Patricia Dobler

She moved, as the spouse of a writer and professor, to Iowa City; Exeter, New Hampshire; Putney, Vermont; Anchorage, Alaska; Tucson, Arizona; El Paso, Texas; and finally Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Perryville, Maryland

Perryville is home to the largest linwood tree in Maryland, located at 50 Millcreek Road on an estate known formerly as the Anchorage.

Princess Tours

Princess Tours runs ten cars a day (five north, five south) from Anchorage to Fairbanks on the Alaska Railroad, stopping at Talkeetna, Denali, and occasionally Whittier.

Rachael Scdoris

On March 5 she started the 2005 Iditarod in Anchorage, Alaska, with "visual interpreter" Paul Ellering, who warned her of trail conditions by radio or shouting.

Reeve Aleutian Airways

Reeve, along with Merritt Boyle and Bill Borland began flying between Seattle and Anchorage, with stops at Juneau, Yakutat or Annette Island.

Robert Rozier

Robert Earnest Rozier (born July 28, 1955, in Anchorage, Alaska) is an African-American former professional football player for the St. Louis Cardinals of the NFL.

Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.

Buckner Gymnasium (also Fieldhouse and Physical Fitness Center) at Fort Richardson (now part of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson) in Anchorage, Alaska, a post which the general established during World War II.

Soldotna Sports Center

Currently, high school teams from Soldotna and Kenai share the ice, and the facility also hosts the Peninsula Ice Classic tournament (also referred to for a short time as the Peninsula Ice Challenge) – showcasing all 4A (large school) teams from the Central Peninsula area, as well as one team from the Anchorage (Cook Inlet Conference) and Fairbanks (Mid-Alaska Conference) areas.

Spring Creek Correctional Center

Robert Hansen, a serial killer convicted of killing numerous women in or near Anchorage, Alaska.

Susan Cohen

Open Your Eyes was the winner of the 2008 American Film Institute Jean Picker Firstenberg Award for Excellence, Best Short Film at the Anchorage International Film Festival 2008, Best Drama, Best Film, and Best Actress for Traci Dinwiddie at the Beverly Hills Shorts Festival 2009.

Tony Knowles

Tony Knowles Coastal Trail, a bike trail in Anchorage, Alaska named for the American politician

Trapper Creek, Alaska

It is part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area and is known as the southern gateway to Denali State Park.

University of Alaska Anchorage

Nestled among an extensive green belt, close to scenic Goose Lake Park, UAA has been recognized each of the past three years as a Tree Campus USA by the Arbor Day Foundation.

Walt Monegan

In February 2001, Monegan was appointed Chief of Police by Anchorage Mayor George Wuerch.

William Alex Stolt

Stolt Lane in Anchorage, which runs from the western end of West Eighth Avenue to the northern end of S Street in the Bootleggers Cove or Inlet View neighborhood just outside of downtown Anchorage, was named for Stolt.

William S. Stevens

A resident of Narberth, Pennsylvania, Stevens died at age 60 on December 8, 2008 of a heart attack while working in Anchorage, Alaska.

Winter City

The Livable Winter Cities Association was formed in 1982 by a group of people from across North America and once had chapters in Minneapolis, Ottawa and Anchorage.

Zachariah J. Loussac

In 1907, Loussac fled Czarist Russia for Alaska, living in Nome, Unalakleet, Iditarod and Juneau before settling down in Anchorage in 1916 to open a drugstore at Fourth Avenue and E Street.


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