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Editorial
Midwinter Fish Frenzy

Firebreak
column by
J.D. Ragan

Letters to the Editor
Richard Seifert
Les Archer

Murder in the Malemute Saloon
Jim Beam Dreams
a mystery of many rumors
by
Hu Dun Niht

The Postal News
Children's Story Hour
public announcement

Ray's View from the Lump

Victuals & Drink
Comfort Food
by Lisa Kljaich Indigo

A Southern Treat for Northerners
by Melissa Stewart

Video Dreamland
Gladiator
Titan A.E.
Saving Grace
The Lion in Winter
movie reviews by Thela Clayton

Web Feet
www.grab.com
www.questionabledoctors.org
wwww.lunascan.com
www.fengshuisociety.com
website reviews by C.B. and Gromit

Beginning of the Millennium Issue
FEATURES

Blank Slate/Fire and Ice: Opposite Poles Come Together with Art
by A. Reed Geiger, et al.

Simultaneous art shows at the opposite ends of the world: Ester, Alaska and McMurdo, Antarctica.

Calypso: Community Agriculture for Ester
by Susan Willsrud

In 1997, we left Fairbanks for good, and headed south. It didn't take long for us to come back, and we found the perfect place for a small, diversified, organic farm, on a hill above Ester.

The History of Ester's Post Office Continues
by Matthew Reckard

Postmasters Elizabeth Pidge, J.C. Kinney, and Thomas Markuson, and Judge James Wickersham, Alaska's territorial delegate to Congress.

The Historical Society, Part 1
fiction by Jeffrey A. Rogers

How Perry Atteberry, through his own sheer stupidity, found himself transported from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Florence, Arizona.

The Last Word?
by Scott Allen

I am railing against the hysterical hype from the Floridian Hogwash Holocaust: candidates, the media, the Supreme Court, and Golden Eagle patrons.

Top Ten Reasons to Build the Rex-South Intertie Route NOW
by Ernst Stavro Blofeld

GVEA has ten points in its favor--maybe.

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