On Friday night in Bethel, the Kuskokwim 300 celebrated its 40th annual sled dog race. Over four decades the race has attracted Alaska’s best mushers, while offering a growing purse and serving as a cornerstone of local mushing. The founders say they could not have predicted how well known and respected that the race would become, or the local champion it would shape.
Sports
Juneau students pick Huskies as combined high school team mascot
The Huskies were also the Douglas High School mascot back before the Douglas and Juneau high schools merged.
Kenai Peninsula schools could soon form esports teams
ASAA Executive Director Billy Strickland said there are club-level esports teams currently in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley and Dillingham that could help start a statewide video game league.
Iditarod clears Dallas Seavey in 2017 doping controversy
The Iditarod Trail Committee says it does not believe Seavey “had any involvement with, or knowledge of, the events that led to the positive (drug) test in his team.”
Alaska musher banned from 2019 Iditarod sled race
Officials have banned longtime musher Hugh Neff from competing in Alaska’s Iditarod sled dog race next year, citing concerns about his care of dogs.
It was quite a week for Marko Cheseto, who became a marathoner and an American in a 3-day span
The former University of Alaska Anchorage runner from Kenya lost both of his feet to frostbite in 2011. Racing on carbon-fiber running blades, Cheseto ran his first marathon last Sunday. Two days later, he became an American citizen.