...recycled telephone pole. Surrounding the pole are globes woven from recycled wire. The globes support an array of plain white Christmas lights that shine off the waves of Shahafka Cove below."I've seen something using these kind of globes before...

...though we had a few more periods of high winds and waves I never had any more bouts of seasickness. In the movie "White Christmas," Bing Crosby sings that "when you are worried and cannot sleep, count your blessings instead of sheep...

Pedestrians walk Tuesday across the rain-soaked Front Street in downtown Juneau.

Though hundreds of Christmas songs are piped through stereo systems at retail stores this time of year, "Let it Snow" is the song of the season for some Juneau proprietors.

...A front page story in the Ketchikan Chronicle: "White Christmas? Sh-h-h; It's a Military Secret. Ordinary...peace on Earth. May God speed them home in 2004 for a white Christmas, which, thanks to them and their predecessors...

"Weather" or not we have a white Christmas in Juneau remains to be seen. But despite what Mother Nature has in store for us this holiday season, the annual Christmas Eve...

Scott Neal, 12, shovels sidewalks for a fee Monday on Front and Franklin streets. There may be a white Christmas: The National Weather Service is calling for a 60 percent chance of snow on Christmas Day. | | |

Wednesday's white Christmas didn't bring enough snow to open Eaglecrest. But managers of the city-owned ski area hope showers predicted for the next few...

...fund-raiser for the Juneau Soccer Club. Up to midnight they wandered between thumping music in the commons, lit by white Christmas lights, and a different kind of thumping - of basketballs - in the gym. The big difference between a middle school...

...the holidays." The project should cost about $900, about the same amount the city plans to spend on additional white Christmas lights downtown. Following the advice of the Downtown Business Association, the Juneau Assembly agreed Monday to...