Friday Focus: Spring, hope and delayed gratification

Here at UAF, you know that spring is here when your eyes water and you see green. Traditionally that has been tied to pollen counts soaring along with the geese coming back and then, pop! Green-up! That day when the trees have gone miraculously from brown to green, seemingly overnight. Spring is here! This spring I noticed another way to view the same phenomenon by spending a week watching freshly graduated college students achieve their dreams, walk across a stage, and transition into a new career. For the record, I have never made it through commencement with dry eyes and when students successfully transition the green starts flowing into their banks. Watery eyes, check. Green, check. Spring is so inspiring and renews my faith in the education process, every single year.

When river breakup came to Eagle

EAGLE -- As the late evening sunshine poured in from the northwest, a dozen residents of 乐虎直播's farthest upstream town on the Yukon River watched their winter race past. Floating chunks of ice spun by in lazy turns, like memories of January.

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