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...used to be only the 350-mile Iditarod Trail Invitational from Knik to McGrath and the Susitna 100, a 100-miler from Big Lake to Skwenta. Now the White Mountains and Homer Epic 100-km and Talkeetna 20 or 60-mile races are taking hold.Fat-tired...
...other mushers arrived, including Norwegian rookie Joar Leifseth Ulsom, French native Nicolas Petit, Jake Berkowitz of Big Lake, Alaska, Nome hometown hero Aaron Burmeister and Sonny Lindner of Two Rivers, Alaska, rounding out the first ten into...
...risk?" the posting by the party said, referring to the deadly Connecticut shooting last year.Rep. Mark Neuman, R-Big Lake, who chaired the subcommittee overseeing the Department of Health and Social Services' budget, said an additional...
...million of which would come out of unrestricted general funds.The subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Mark Neuman, R-Big Lake, pared the total request back by $9.9 million and dropped the department's UGF take to $281.2 million - slightly...
...Buser, who was the first out of the previous checkpoint at Eagle Island early Saturday. The 54-year-old veteran from Big Lake, Alaska, dropped two dogs at Eagle Island.Buser is hoping to be only the second musher to ever claim a fifth title...
...effectively gutted. "I just think it's been a very, very successful program."Wilson and Rep. Mark Neuman, R-Big Lake, opposed the amendment."I believe in vocational education training ? and I know that we need these courses," said...
...leaving the area - unless they are in their home, workplace or protecting a member of that person's household.The Big Lake Republican's bill would remove the duty to retreat for people who are in "any place where they have the right to be...
...the Chickaloon River bridge, Knik-Goose Bay Road, the Church and Pittman roads area, and the Parks Highway between Big Lake and Nancy Lake. Moose may be taken in these and other areas by hunters who have been issued hot-spot permits."We...
...allow for use of deadly force in self-defense, in any place the person has a right to be. Rep. Mark Neuman, R-Big Lake, has tried for years, without success, to get the bill passed. Debate over his proposal last year came amid controversy...
...gesture perpetrated by Iron Dog racers as they travel from Big Lake to Nome to Fairbanks - more than 2,000 miles - as fast...area - at least 100 miles per day is his goal - and in Big Lake a few weeks before the race with McKenna. He said he tries...