Craig Medred – A home for readers and thinkers
WEB1 day ago — Craig Medred is an independent Alaska journalist with over 35 years of professional experience as a reporter, writer & staff editor. This is his news site.
craigmedred – Craig Medred
WEBSep 23, 2024 — craigmedred.news is committed to Alaska-related news, commentary and entertainment. it is dedicated to the idea that if everyone is thinking alike, someone is not thinking. you can contact the editor directly at craigmedred@gmail.com.
Face of adventure – Craig Medred
WEBBy craigmedred on February 11, 2022 • ( 9 Comments ) Tim Hewitt’s face displaying the price of adventure. Battered, brutalized and in the end beaten by the cold and wind of Alaska’s Bering Sea coast, one of the toughest men ever to trod the Iditarod Trail was on a plane back to his Pennsylvania home Wednesday night lucky to be alive.
Commentary – Craig Medred
WEBSep 5, 2024 — Posts about Commentary written by craigmedred. Driver explains death of well-known Fairbanks cyclist The driver who killed 48-year-old Fairbanks cyclist Matt Glover on the Richardson Highway in October 2022 is now telling his version of what happened.
Stranger than fiction – Craig Medred
WEBSep 28, 2020 — Only in Alaska can reality prove stranger than reality TV, and when the two converge, the outcome is near unbelievable. Consider the case of 78-year-old Duane Ose who off and on for years lived underground far from anywhere in the foothills of the Alaska Range only to emerge, find a woman to marry, and proceed to build with her a beautiful, three-story log cabin over the hole in a hill far ...
About - Craig Medred
WEBAbout. Craig Medred is an independent Alaska journalist who has worked out of Fairbanks, Juneau and Anchorage. By car, truck, airplane, snowmachine, pack raft, sailboat, skis, snowshoes and foot, he has traveled much of the state from Ketchikan in the south to Barrow in the north and from Nome in the west to Eagle in the east.
News – Craig Medred
WEBSep 26, 2024 — Self-inflicted deaths. By craigmedred on September 5, 2024 • ( ) The troubling U.S. death rate Americans are dying at a record rate compared to residents of other Western nations, and the U.S. medical establishment can’t seem to …
Sadly lost - Craig Medred
WEBNov 4, 2020 — Sadly lost. Aged Alaska mountain man Duane Ose has been discharged from a Fairbanks hospital and is now on Facebook looking for help and railing against those who rescued him from deep in the wilderness of the frozen Interior. Old friends from Fairbanks say the behavior appears strangely out of character for the 78-year-old trapper and woodsman ...
Deadly attraction? - Craig Medred
WEBOct 28, 2020 — About 50 miles to the east, a young man named Chris McCandless moved into an abandoned and deserted bus along an abandoned and overgrown road in April 1992. The 24-year-old son of a comfortably well off East Coast family, McCandless fled into the wild for reasons that will never be known. Some …
Old becomes new - Craig Medred
WEBSep 25, 2021 — Old becomes new. PLACER RIVER – The wind blew hard and cold from the north on Tuesday, and the new normal urban Alaska has come to expect seemed a long time gone. The snow was creeping quickly down the Chugach and Kenai mountains bordering Turnagain Arm, and friends to the north in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley were already reporting the white ...
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