Trapper Creek News

A plan to provide a scenic corridor leading into Denali State Park is in the works.

Tues pm -With temperatures hovering around the freezing mark, the Upper Susitna Valley received a dose of heavy wet snow early Tuesday.A At the Talkeetna airport, the flight service measured four and half inches of snowfall by 10 am.

The same storm making a slick, drippy mess of Anchorage and parts of Mat-Su is dumping heavy, wet snow up the Glenn and Parks highways, causing major problems on some roads.

The Sunshine and Trapper Creek Food Banks are looking at a record amount of Thanksgiving baskets this year.A As poverty numbers in the U.S. soar, the Upper Valley seems to be no different.

George Blodgett of Trapper Creek plea-bargained to felony assault charges in Palmer Court last week.

SPEED STACKINGa ' PE teacher Karen Mannix helps Vega Papasadora, left, and McKenzy Keller, right, to stack cups on the Battlestack station during the World Stack Up event held worldwide on November 12, 2009.

The vaccinations were not mandatory but most students had their parenta TMs consent to get either the nasal spray or shot to ward off the H1N1 virus.

The Mat Su Borough Assembly and Mayor Talis Colberg recognized Rodney Norwood Marsh posthumously Tuesday night at the Borough Assembly meeting.

Gusty winds in the Mat-Su area have knocked out power to between 700 and 1,000 customers in the Matanuska Electric Association service territory, MEA spokeswoman Lorali Carter said this afternoon.

Mat-Su public health officials are gearing up to organize their first large-scale H1N1 vaccination clinics.

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources , Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation , has initiated a planning process to create Denali State Park's first Trail Management Plan.

A series of drug busts in Trapper Creek on Tuesday uncovered five marijuana growing operations and led to three arrests, with charges pending against other suspects, according to Alaska State Troopers.

Oct. 6 -Mat Su Borough elections are today, as well as the Talkeetna Community Council election.

A A The Talkeetna Community Council has three new Directors for their Board. Meghaan A A Vaughan, the youngest director, took the most votes with 135 of 187 total voters casting A their ballot for her.

A 25 year old Anchorage man died at the Hurricane Bridge late Sunday. Multiple rescue teams responded to the call early Sunday evening at the Hurricane Bridge over the Chulitna River on the Parks Highway.

A Texas man who was run over and badly injured during a Trapper Creek music festival is back in Austin recovering and a local man is in jail, charged with drunk driving, felony assault and attempted murder.

Wasilla Farmers Market, 11 a.m.- 6 p.m., through September, behind Wasilla Public Library.

School officials say that fewer students than projected enrolled at two of the areaa TMs schools.

Alaska State Troopers have arrested a 48-year-old pickup driver suspected of seriously injuring a pedestrian at the Trapper Creek Bluegrass Festival and then driving off.

I 've always known that Alaskans throw the best music festivals, and I've been to quite a few.