Bears aim to bounce back

Though scores aren’t available to publish for scrimmage matches, assistant coach and Juneau Racquet Club pro Garold LaRue said the Juneau-Douglas High School tennis team did even better than expected in Fairbanks last weekend.

JUNEAU – What Juneau-Douglas lacks in height this volleyball season, it plans to make up for with quickness and smart hitting up front, and a strong, full-court defensive effort.

Do we need any more evidence that out of control substance abuse addictions are literally killing our state when 12 of Anchorage’s citizens have died in the parks and on the streets of our largest community? This is a quiet crisis no longer.

Just enough snow was falling to track a deer during a gray, Southeast November day. The air was wet, cold and still. It wasn’t Southeast Alaska; it was the Yale Bowl in New Haven during the Yale versus Harvard football game of 1955. The Game was a significant social event in the Northeast. Special trains bringing partiers from Boston and New York pulled into New Haven. Back then, the Yale Bowl was one of the largest sports venues in the country with room for 60,000 spectators.

The urge to text while driving apparently strikes widely, affecting everyone from excessively social teens to BlackBerry-obsessed business people to the District of Columbia’s multitasking mayor. Wherever it hits, it can be dangerous.

Attorney General Eric Holder took a courageous step Monday when he appointed prosecutor John Durham to investigate CIA interrogations during the Bush administration.

JUNEAU – Rising fuel costs have been a thorn in the side of many vessel-based tour operators, but not for Captain John George of the Juneau Steamboat Co. He runs his operation on scrap wood and rainwater, making his tour one of Juneau’s most eco-friendly.

Former Juneau resident Cornelia F. “Bill” Wells died peacefully after a long illness on July 23, 2009, in Albany, Ore. She was 95.

Alaska legislators are unhappy with the short 90-day legislative session approved by voters in 2006, according to a new survey of members of the House of Representatives.