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In case you haven't heard, there is a parade in from the ferry tomorrow morning (Friday) for the victorious team. (Check to be sure it's on time, but the plan is to gather about 11:15 out there.)  Then there will be a pep rally in the gym, and everyone is encouraged...

 Kyle Fossman is the Gatorade Alaska Player of the Year. (!) (I'm trying to control the exclamation points, but the Glacier Bears  make that really hard.) His mother told me it is a big deal. I believe her. The team flies to Juneau tonight, and will be on the 7:00 am...

 I am procrastinating on a column, (okay, actually I'm waiting until 9:00am to call Ann Marie Fossman and ask her about the game. I figure the assistant coach -and wife of head coach Steve Fossman and mother of star player Kyle Fossman-- will be my best source for the...

 The Haines Glacier Bear boys are the new 3A state champions! They beat the Nome Nanooks 46-45. It is too much. Amazing and wonderful! (And I never use exclamation points. Well, never except in sports stories. This one, as announcer Doug Olerud would say, and...

 Here is a preview from the Anchorage Daily News columnist Beth Bragg on tonight's state championship game between Haines and Nome. Read this and you'll know a lot more about Nome. She doesn't write much about Haines. (Actually, nothing. But it was filed before the...

Spring is the time of year I start thinking more about weird accidents. No doubt since I was run over by a truck on an otherwise lovely April morning on a quiet street in town. When my sister told me about a man killed in Central Park when a tree limb fell on him...