Tom Hewitt

Dec 29, 2024 | newsminer.com | Tom Hewitt

To the editor: I’m a born-and-raised Fairbanks resident (and, at one point, the editor who was on the receiving end of these letters) who recently returned here after six and a half years in Anchorage. I wanted to write and thank the Fairbanks community for the kind welcome they’ve given me on my return home. Moves and the life changes that precipitate them are rarely easy, and this is especially the case when making the transition during an Alaska winter, when daylight and warmth are scarce.

Sep 10, 2024 | adn.com | Tom Hewitt

Do you have a letter to the editor or a commentary you’d like to deliver in person? A question or comment about local issues you’d like to share? ADN opinion editor Tom Hewitt will be at the SteamDot Coffee location in the Midtown Mall on Thursday, Sept. 12, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. if you’d like to stop by and say hi. He’ll have a sign on his table so you won’t have to guess who he might be.

May 2, 2024 | yahoo.com | Tom Hewitt

May 2—When my wife, Annie, came back down the Yukon River bank to our canoe, she looked shocked. "Well, there used to be a campground there," she said. "but it's gone.""How gone are we talking?" I asked.

May 2, 2024 | adn.com | Tom Hewitt

When my wife, Annie, came back down the Yukon River bank to our canoe, she looked shocked. “Well, there used to be a campground there,” she said. “but it’s gone.”“How gone are we talking?” I asked. It had been a 12-hour day paddling the 50 miles from Dawson City on June 30, 2023, battling headwinds and crosswinds nearly the entire time, and we had been counting on reaching the campground at Forty Mile — one of a handful of official campgrounds on our Yukon River trip from Whitehorse to Circle.

Mar 8, 2024 | adn.com | Tom Hewitt

As regular readers and letter authors may be aware, the ADN generally doesn’t print poems submitted as letters to the editor. But on one day each year, we make a one-day exception to our usual policy, in the name of good fun. In past years, ADN readers have stepped up to the challenge, flooding us with poems of surprising quality, humor and heart. Therefore, April 1 will once again be Poem Day in the ADN’s letters space.