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“And the whole Earth,” chimed in his 6-year-old brother, Jared. Saturday was Clean-Up Day, and the Alvarez family, including mom, Johanna, and sister, 4-year-old Lidia, decided to spruce up the neighborhood near their church. They found cigars, napkins, cardboard, shopping bags and face masks. The children’s father, Ken, carried the telltale yellow Clean-Up Day bag. With the blue sky, warm temperatures and passersby honking their horns in support, it made for happy work for dozens of people around Fairbanks. The annual collective action results in tons of litter removed from ne...

Demolition of the old University Avenue Bridge over the Chena River has begun, with a plan to open a new one in the fall of 2021, according to the announcement from the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities. “When you hear “bridge demolition,” you probably think of a BIG BOOM and lots happening at once,” Danielle Tessen, a publications specialist for the department, wrote in an email to the News-Miner. “Well, the University Avenue bridge demo won’t involve dropping the structure into the frozen river with a big explosion.” She wrote that ...