Columns & Sections

Alaska Scapegoat Ranch
Oil Prophets, Straw Men, and Scapegoats: A Parable from the Alaska Scapegoat Ranch
by Wilkins Micawber, Prop.

Book Review
Lets Get It On!
Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
by Olivia Judson
book review
by David A. James

You, Too, Can Visit the Rasmuson Library's World of Books
public announcement

Second Soup and Stow
public announcement

Calendar of Events

Cartoons
Bonnie Williams on the Board of Fish & Game
by Dan Darrow

Dr. Alito's Second Opinion
by Mikhaela B. Reid

ANWR & the budget bill
by Jim Hunt

The K Chronicles: science editing
by Keith Knight

Editorial
The Unthinkable Will Sink Us

Letter to the Editor
Once Upon a Plastic Bag
John D. Lyle

poetry
Limerick Contest Results
with poems by Sonja Benson, Doreen Fitzgerald, John Haines, and Margaret Rogers

"They Go Missing"
by Birch Pavelsky

Postal News
public announcements
April & May at PhotoSynthesis

Sustainable Living Conference

ECA Spring General Meeting

Call for Artists

The Moving Wall

Victuals & Drink
Greener Groceries
Bagel Spoken Here
by LJ Evans

Zen and the Art of Spinach Lasagne
by Carla Helfferich

The Deft Palate
Big Al's Beats #1
by Mary Haley

Video Dreamland
Thumbsucker
Pride and Prejudice
Bride and Prejudice
The Weather Man
Capote
movie reviews by Thela Clayton

FEATURES

Book Bash Bounty
by Margaret Rogers & D. Helfferich

The second annual John Trigg Ester Library Lallapalooza & Book Bash was even better than the first!

Ester Kids in the Science Fair
by Margaret Rogers

Several young Esterites presented science fair projects this year, and a few won prizes at the district science fair.

Four Years Running
by D. Helfferich, proud publisher

Results from yet another year of entries in the Alaska Press Club Awards.

Of Land, Libraries, and Lallapaloozas
by D. Helfferich

The ECA held a special general meeting to determine whether to buy land for the library on Village Road.

Plastic Fantastic: A Garden Party for the Library
photos by Monique Musick, overview and captions by D. Helfferich

Visqueen: fabric of haute couture (or is that horticulture?)

Radio News
by D. Helfferich

An update on the KUAC Community Task Force results, and the organizing committee for a new community radio station.

Spring Lurch
a science note by Carla Helfferich

Ester, like most of the state, sits on a fault. Guess which harbinger of spring we got this month?

Travels in Sputnik II
by Alys Culhane

Traveling Alaska's highways in a cramped interplanetary vehicle with a couple of co-pilots (one of them canine) can make for interesting explorations...

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