The Crimson Bear seniors (left to right) Alex DeRocher, Kristen Dierick, Terrence Wheat, Annette Highley, Paul Tupou, Emily Johnson, Lawrence Fenumiai, Brittany Fenumiai, Eric Sele, Mahlet Tingley and Victor Wilson pose for a group picture prior to the start of the boys’ game Saturday night at Juneau-Douglas High School.

Juneau-Douglas won the overall Southeast Conference tournament No. 1 seed after pounding Thunder Mountain 75-16 Saturday for a sentimental senior night victory as every Crimson Bear broke into the scoring column.

Police are seeking information about two suspects who allegedly asked a juvenile girl if she needed a ride on two separate occasions.

Thank you, Glenn Beck. Thank you for putting into words what we have known in our gut all along.

Several lawmakers on Tuesday defended their mid-session trip (to the Energy Council meeting in Washington D.C.) as important to their work in Juneau, given the importance of oil and gas in the state.

President Obama, we voted for you to follow through with your promises and to lead the country. You only want to compromise and force a poor health care bill through the Senate. It is time for you to get out of the way. Congress needs to vote for reconciliation of the public option or single payer system.

I’m responding to the article Feb. 21 Empire article about drug use at Juneau’s high schools. Although I do believe that many students have stopped using O.C. (Oxycontin), I can’t help but laugh at how all these adults think they have made such a huge difference on the drug problem by putting up fliers and talking to kids in school about it.

As a supporter of high school athletics and a Juneau resident, I was excited to see Jaime Kissner selected as the head baseball coach for the Crimson Bears in 2008. A former Division 1 player out of Northwestern State University in Louisiana, Kissner seemed to be an individual who had something to offer the program in the wake of the very successful Jim Ayers.

The recent flurry of bills proposing different angles for building a so-called “bullet-line” signal the Legislature’s mounting concern with the AGIA process and the ill-fated Canadian gas line route.