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The Taylor Hawks have placed seventh in the 3x3 Cup, with high school standout Jackson Ball being named to the competition All-Star 4. Held in Invercargill...

AUTHOR’S NOTE: “Jackson” Ball met a tragic end nearly 20 years after moving to Alaska from the East Coast. Before coming north, he served in the U.S. Army during World War II, and throughout his life he left unanswered questions in his wake: Where did he get his nickname? To whom had he been married while serving in the military? Why did he move to Alaska? What did his actions, both good and bad, reveal about the character of the man?

Rusty Lancashire hadn’t allowed her first impressions of Kenai in 1948 to deter her from making the central Kenai Peninsula her home

AUTHOR’S NOTE: In late 1948, after six months of homestead living on the central Kenai Peninsula, Rusty Lancashire wrote home to her folks in Illinois. She noted that some people who had arrived at about the same time they had were already pulling up stakes. She and husband Larry, however, were in it for the long haul: “Larry and I may be dopes to live like this,” she wrote, “but we love it.” They lived on their homestead for the next five decades.

Taking to the podium to officially launch this year’s Wexford Darkness Into Light in aid of Pieta, few will no better the toll that battles with mental health can take than Seán Kinsella. The well-known businessman was forced to battle his own demons, culminating in an attempt to take his own life a number of years back.