Stacey Simmons is the director of operations at the Kodiak Brown Bear Center & Lodge, president of Discover Kodiak, and the senior director of shareholder services for Koniag, the Alaska Native regional corporation for the Kodiak region. She grew up in …
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Trooper Anne Sears was featured in the National Geographic Channel series "Alaska State Troopers" while posted in Nome. She graduated from Juneau-Douglas High School in 1984 and later became an officer at the Juneau Police Department… Type: Editorial
Ariel Tweto, one of the stars of Discovery Channel’s Flying Wild Alaska, is a TV personality and producer. Ariel was a contestant on the ABC game show Wipeout in 2008 and 2009. She became a frequent guest on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and on the Late Show with David Letterman. She plays herself in the IMAX movie, Into America’s Wild, which premiered in February 2020 and is…
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Bill Spear is a longtime Alaska resident and artist. His handcrafted enamel pins are sold all over the world and have been displayed in the Guggenheim Museum. Bill has also designed pins for the National Air and Space Society, The Nature Conservancy, and the Audubon Society.If you spend enough time in…
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Bob Stanford has been running charters to Kodiak’s remote locations for over 30 years. Stanford knows just about everyone on the island and where to go to find the best bear viewing, fishing, or whatever you are looking for. His experience and expertise in flying have resulted in hundreds of happy hunters and fishermen flying back with thousands of pounds of meat and fish every year.The…
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Four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race winner Dallas Seavey has been training for the race practically his entire life. His grandfather, Dan Seavey, is a veteran Iditarod musher who competed in the first Iditarod race in 1973 and… Type: Editorial
Dana Stabenow was born in Anchorage, raised on a 75-foot fish tender in the Gulf of Alaska, and now lives in … Type: Editorial
DeeDee Jonrowe has raced in the Iditarod, Copper Basin 300 - which she won in 2011, Kuskokwim 300, Tustemena 200, Kobuk 440, and John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon. She also worked the IditaProject, an internet forum for the Bering Sea School District. In 2013, DeeDee was inducted into the Mushers Hall of Fame in recognition of her long and heroic career as an Alaska dog musher.I…
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Dermot Cole is a longtime Alaska reporter, columnist, and author, based in Fairbanks. He has written extensively about Alaska and Alaska history for more than 35 years. A longtime columnist for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, his most… Type: Editorial
Geoff Larson has lived in Juneau since 1983. He followed a woman he was in love with here. She is now his wife and partner. Geoff founded the Alaskan Brewing Co. in 1986. It was the first brewery in Juneau since Prohibition. Today,… Type: Editorial
