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Tim Ellis
reporter/producerTim has worked in the news business for over three decades as a newspaper reporter and editor and as a radio news reporter/producer. He grew up in a military family and lived in Utah, Hawaii and Kentucky before his family moved to Alaska in 1967, settling in Delta Junction. In 1977, Tim journeyed to the Lower 48 in 1977 to get a college education and see the world. He graduated from Seattle University in 1983 with a degree in journalism and relocated to southern Arizona, where he spent most of the next 25 years working as a print, broadcast and online journalist. He returned to Alaska in 2010 and joined the KUAC news staff, where he has since worked as a reporter and producer covering energy and the environment, agriculture/sustainability, transportation, military affairs and rural Interior communities. He lives in Delta Junction with his wife, Mary, and enjoys reading, hiking, fishing and carpentry.
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A woman accused of recklessly driving an SUV into Fort Wainwright’s main gate and fatally injuring a soldier who tried to stop her has been charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and driving under the influence.
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Alaska-based Air Force units hosted European flyers for training last week. Fighter-jet pilots based at Eielson and Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson were joined by counterparts from Germany, France and Spain for the first-of-its-kind exercise. Afterward, the allied pilots gave rave reviews of Alaska’s expansive training airspace.
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Fort Wainwright will temporarily relocate the Visitors Center at the Main Gate next week due to construction in that area.
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Fort Wainwright will hold its annual summer concert Friday at the Chena Bend Golf Course. The concert is free and open to the public, and this year’s show will feature a diverse mix of music.
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NewsTwo world records were set during the first two days of this year’s World Eskimo Indian Olympics happening this week at the Big Dipper arena in Fairbanks. It’s the 63rd annual celebration of Native culture known as WEIO.
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Archeologists excavating an ancient pit house near Delta Junction say the artifacts they’ve found have helped them understand more about the people who lived in the area over the past 14,000 years -- and their possible canine companions.