This Month In The Chatter

April 1, 2009 Volume 2, Issue 4

Free Books for Meadow Lakes Pre-Schoolers

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Chatter Staff

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library is coming to the Meadow Lakes Community. This birth through age 5 reading program delivers free books to children each month. Books are quality hardbound and developmentally appropriate for the age of the child. Postage fees are raised by community volunteers and organizations. If you'd like to sponsor a child, the cost is $30 per year or $150 for the complete program from birth to age 5. More information is available on how the Mat-Su Valley Reading Association is supporting the program in the Meadow Lakes community.Read more

What's Hot?

Meadow Lakes Collector Roads

Spring Clean-Up our 15th Year

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Submitted Stories

From the past to the present, check out the newest stories from our readers.

Life & Time of an Alaskan Woman - Part 2

Hatcher Pass Management Plan Revision

Public Scoping Meetings

Chatter Staff

Thursday, April 16, 2009

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mining, Land and Water (DMLW), has initiated a planning process to revise the Hatcher Pass Management Plan. The State would like your input throughout the planning process. To facilitate this, two scoping meetings have been scheduled to provide information and to obtain your comments and recommendations. You are welcome to come to all meetings that are held.Read more

Spring Clean-Up 2009

Our 15th year

Chatter Staff

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

It's that time of the year again, time to make our area of the world just a bit cleaner and more appealing to residents and visitors alike. The Chatter is hosting a website for the event this year, it can be found at: www.cleanup2009.meadowlakeschatter.comRead more

Meadow Lakes Community Council Election

Board Nominees

Chatter Staff

Sunday, April 19, 2009

At the last general membership meeting of the Meadow Lakes Community Council nominations were made for the upcoming annual election that will be held on May 13th. The following persons were nominated; either by the nominating committee or from the floor:Read more

Borough Owned Land Within ML

What are the best future uses?

Chatter Staff

Thursday, April 16, 2009

John Duffy, Mat-Su Borough Manager attended the MLCC General Membership meeting and asked for the communities input regarding Borough-owned parcels of land within the MLCC area and what would be the best designation for those parcels. There are few (if not just a couple) such parcels and it is highly likely that there are better uses than gravel extraction for them. The community will need to discuss the best way to classify those for future use (i.e., Schools, recreation, Fire Hall, etc.). Once the MLCC General Membership has settled on the best uses, it can forward a request to the Assembly and Planning Commission to so-designate those lands.Read more

Town Hall Meeting

with Mark Neuman and Charlie Huggins

Julia Normand - Houston Holler

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Get yourself on the mailing list for either or both of these gentlemen. I heard them speak at the Meadow Lakes Elementary School on Saturday, March 21st and left feeling I had a much better sense of the work they do in representing us Valley-ites in Juneau. Both Charlie and Mark listened carefully to everyone who spoke, giving each person their full attention and respect. Responses were informative and well thought out. I am sorry more people weren’t present, but as a result of the low attendance, the meeting assumed an informal, relaxed, and personal tone.Read more

Firewise Is Here

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Have you noticed during your clean up activites how the trash accumulates in all that dead grass and brush?Read more

Monthly Columns

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Spring Break-Up

Self-Esteem

A Business of Ferrets

More and more

Our Temps Are Rising

Meadow Lakes Collector Roads

A Parks Highway update

Chatter Staff

Tom Kluberton

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

The story below ran in the Meadow Lakes Press back in March 2007; Tom Kluberton's response to the public meetings held in regards to the Parks Highway.Read more