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Much of a creek that once ran through Anchorage is now in underground pipes. A group wants to return it to the daylight.
Water collects in a ditch south of Chugach Way on April 20 in Anchorage. The area is within the historic Fish Creek watershed. (Loren Holmes / ADN) An Anchorage group wants the city to take a closer look at reviving a creek that once flowed through town by “daylighting” the waterway. During decades of development in Midtown Anchorage, Fish Creek was partially routed into underground drainage pipes. Now, a group called Friends of Fish Creek is advocating for the upstream section to flow again at the surface. Everyone seems to acknowledge that bringing the creek into the open won’t be easy. But advocates say such a move will transform the…
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This once-criticized Anchorage road landscaping project has really paid off
Spruce trees line Worldwide Airport Street near the south terminal of Ted Stevens Anchorage Intercontinental Airport on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. (Loren Holmes / ADN) For the first time in many years I have not obtained a solitary problem about Xmas trees. How could this be? It is difficult to fathom that no one particular wishes to know what I feel is the very best tree or that no one is nervous about needle fall. Is it just also early? No concerns right here is wonderful by me, but I am demanded to create one particular Christmas tree column even so. There is no way all-around it. I suppose I…