Chevak News

The most powerful message in Sunday's Daily News story about wind turbines and other renewable power projects in Alaska is simply that they exist.

Dan Fruits paints his landscapes in the same way that they are intended to be appreciated: on a gut level.

The tundra of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta is studded with botanical gifts: plump, dark crowberries, hot-pink fireweed, wormwood plants and blackberries found in the region have all been used for kitchen-made balms and salves by the Native people who have inhabited the area for thousands of years.

University of Alaska Anchorage Professor Herb Schroeder speaks with Nicole Pingayak, of Chevak and a student from Mount Edgecombe High School, during a summer program that aims to entice young students from rural Alaska communities to take more of an interest in engineering, science and math.

Sculptor/carver/artist Franklin Matchian, originally from Chevak, now living in Anchorage, made the news some years ago when he discovered an ivory point incongruously embedded in a piece of ancient whalebone that he was carving.

Sculptor/carver/artist Franklin Matchian, originally from Chevak, now living in Anchorage, made the news some years ago when he discovered an ivory point incongruously embedded in a piece of ancient whalebone that he was carving.

Sculptor/carver/artist Franklin Matchian, originally from Chevak, now living in Anchorage, made the news some years ago when he discovered an ivory point incongruously embedded in a piece of ancient whalebone that he was carving.

As required by state law, the Mora School Board has passed a preliminary budget for the coming 2009-10 school year.