Kris Capps
Editor at Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Columnist/community editor Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, covering the Interior and the amazing people who live there!
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6 days ago |
newsminer.com | Kris Capps
The winning jackpot for the 2025 Nenana Ice Classic is $211,267 but the name or names of the winners are not yet known. It takes awhile for Ice Classic workers to comb through literally thousands of tickets to find the winning guesses. In 2024, there was one winner.
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6 days ago |
newsminer.com | Kris Capps
The journey of a team of Nenana student athletes to the 2025 Senior Native Youth Olympics (NYO) in Anchorage earlier this month began with one simple question. A 10th grade student walked up to his gym teacher, holding a wiffle ball on a string, and said, ”Hey, can I practice NYO?”“He started to practice and I kind of joined him,” said Nenana teacher/coach Jarrett Tucker, who was totally new to native games.
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1 week ago |
newsminer.com | Kris Capps
It was a long and tense slog to the winner’s circle at the 33rd annual BizBee, the annual spelling contest fundraiser for the Literacy Council of Alaska. The event opened Friday evening at the Westmark Hotel and Conference Center with 12 teams hoping to spell their way to victory. After Round 8, only two teams remained. They battled back and forth for about 30 minutes, stumbling over many, many words — some spellings were so close, others far afield.
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1 week ago |
newsminer.com | Kris Capps
When young orators presented their winning speeches for the Fairbanks area annual speech contest this past weekend, it was easy to imagine these young people as future leaders. That is how confident they were delivering their speeches to a large audience of friends and family and how compelling I found their deliveries. They didn’t read the speech from a piece of paper. They spoke from memory and looked at their audience directly. The inflection of their voices demanded attention.
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1 week ago |
newsminer.com | Kris Capps
The Spring Migration Celebration at Creamer’s Field hosted hundreds of visitors during Saturday’s special event. Some even flew in for the show. There were lots of booths with lots of hands-on activities for kids and families. But the real stars of the day were, of course, the migrating waterfowl who filled the field — swans, ducks, geese, cranes and more.
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