...can't meet," she said. "I thought it would be a simple thing but then I was sick, and then sick again." Mark Farmer, the chairman of the city's Urban Bear Committee who has been tracking bears as part of an "Urban Bear Patrol," said kids...

...Juneau photographer Pat Costello. "The committee members bring many different perspectives to the problem," said Farmer, the chairman. Before bowing out of the mayor's race and throwing his support to Smith last fall, Farmer proposed a garbage-bear...