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Ask anyone in town, Bill Overstreet was beloved and admired by all, even those he argued with. The Empire once named him one of 25 people who had the most impact...
Former Juneau mayor and advocate for keeping the Capitol in Juneau Bill Overstreet died Monday at around 4 p.m., six weeks after suffering a stroke, Laraine Derr told the Empire Monday evening. Born in 1926...
Mayor Bill Overstreet was always on the lookout for ways...donation. The first donors were Bill Overstreet and Jeff Wilson, publisher of the...soon followed. This is but one of Bill Overstreet's contributions to his community...
In August of 2012 I spent hours listening to Bill Overstreet tell his life story, from birth in a small Oklahoma town to current projects - the man was 86 and still had current projects...
...our industry is worth about 20 million."The original idea for the waterfront whale began with former Juneau Mayor Bill Overstreet, who approached Wallen with the idea back in 1993. Though a proposal was written around that time, it was subsequently...
...spot on the city's waterfront. A large and expensive endeavor that was apparently the dream of our past Mayor, Bill Overstreet. The artist's model represents an anatomically true, half-whale to be cast in bronze. A huge, whale's-blow-hole-fountain...
...colored glass and beads, her piece was sponsored by North Pacific Erectors. Board Members for the whale project are Bill Overstreet, Kathy Kolkhorst Ruddy, Laraine Derr, Kay Diebels, Sharon Kelly, Nancy DeCherney and Jim ClarkTickets for the...
...Juneau's sinking approaching next month, Wanamaker and several other members of the community, including former Mayor Bill Overstreet and Port Director Carl Uchytil, are working toward a fitting remembrance for the ship and its crew in the city for...
...even longer. In fact, its original proposal sat in a drawer for than a decade.The seed of the idea began with Bill Overstreet, now dubbed the official "visionary" of the whale committee. He served as Juneau's mayor from 1976 to 1983...
...rescue teams recovered them more than a week later. None of the five Sullivan brothers were among those who lived.Bill Overstreet was sworn into the Navy that same day, he told members of a planning committee for the U.S.S. Juneau memorial...