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Pollen accumulates along the water’s edge at Bal-
laine Lake as runners pass on the pedestrian
path along Farmers Loop on Wednesday. Fairbanks
is in the height of its allergy season as trees
release pollen into the air.
By SAM [email protected]
A Fairbanks man pleaded guilty Wednesday to strangling his girl-
friend to death last spring.Nyrobbie Chandler could
receive from 35 to 75 years in prison for killing Kaylynn Bishop. The sentence will be determined
at a hearing scheduled for Nov. 4 and 5.
As part of an agreement, Chan-dler, 36, pleaded guilty to sec-ond-degree murder and evidence tampering.
The evidence tampering charg-es came from allegations that
Chandler hid Bishop’s body in a wooded area near the intersection of Badger Road and the Richard-son Highway, impersonated her after her death with text mes-sages and poured motor oil into the trunk of her vehicle to hide evidence.
At the change of plea hear-ing Wednesday, Assistant District Attorney Corrine Vorenkamp described Chandler as a jealous boyfriend who had been banned from the Hideout Lounge, where
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The U.S. Air Force will host public meetings in Fairbanks later this month to review its draft study on the impacts of the possible relocation of Eielson’s F-16 jet squadron.
Open houses on the draft environ-mental impact statement will be held June 19 in Fairbanks and June 20 in North Pole to hear from the public about
the study’s findings. The study explored the impacts of
relocating the 1,500 military and civilian positions and the additional 1,600 jobs indirectly tied to the squadron.
The Fairbanks meeting will be held at the Westmark Hotel, and the North Pole meeting will be held at North Pole Elementary School.
Both meetings are scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.
Written comments can be directed to Mr. Allen Richmond, AFCEC/CZN, 2261 Hughes Ave., Suite 155, Lackland AFB, TX 78236-9853. Comments on the impact statement may be submitted elec-tronically at www.alaskaf-16eis.com.
By MATT [email protected]
After a monthlong hia-tus, the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly will resume meetings tonight with a work ses-sion to review several upcoming ordinances.
The agenda for the meeting is relatively bare-bones, with several ordi-nances sponsored by bor-ough Mayor Luke Hopkins concerning animal control and the sale of properties seized through tax fore-closures.
Two ordinances deal with animal control. One would eliminate tattoos as a form of tracking for dogs and cats in favor of injected microchips. The change of rule would affect all adopted animals and animals in protective cus-tody.
The ordinance states tattoos can be difficult to read after time and urg-es the assembly to limit tracking to microchips.
The other ordinance would create a penalty for failing to provide proof of immunization against rabies for dogs and cats. Owners would have up to seven days after a request by an animal control offi-cer to provide proof of immunization.
This follows a recent rabies scare in which wild wolves were found to be carrying the disease. The animal shelter held a busy immunization clinic that attracted hundreds of pet owners.
Other ordinances help ready dozens of properties taken through tax foreclo-sures for sale. The property owners, however, still can pay back taxes on many of the properties to avoid los-ing them to foreclosure
Another ordinance is a long-delayed one concern-ing standards for commu-nications towers.
Tonight’s meeting will be limited to ques-tions to the staff regard-ing the ordinances. Public testimony, discussion and action on the ordinances will be held at the next regular meeting.
Contact staff writer Matt Buxton at 459-7544 and fol-low him on Twitter: @FDNM politics.
By SAM ALLENNews-Miner Intern
Gusts of yellow wind.Puddles of yellow water.Itchy eyes.It must be pollen season.Dr. Timothy Foote, who
specializes in allergies at Tanana Valley Clinic, said birch pollen peaked at 1,400 grains per cubic meter of air last week. This contributed to the overall pollen concen-tration of 1,615.2 per cubic meter.
That’s rated as “very high” on the pollen advisory scale.
The peak is three weeks later than the average. Foote said that’s the latest peak recorded at TVC.
“To give you some per-spective, 150 to 200 per cubic meter is considered high in the Lower 48,” he said.
Recent rains are expected to cause pollen to taper off during the next few days.
We should have seen it coming.
“You could predict this at the end of last summer by looking at all the pollen buds and cones on the spruce,” said Glenn Juday, professor of for-est ecology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. “When the spruce are stressed, they produce pollen cones and sacs instead of branch shoots.”
It’s hot, clear, dry weather — like that experienced in the Fairbanks area before the rains of the past few days — that stresses the trees.
There’s something in the airArea sees high pollen concentration
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Sourdough Jack sez:
“Between the skeeters and the pollen, my nose
has been running like a faucet.”
Smoking Dumpster divers cause fire.Page B1
Smells like trash Air Force to host meetings on Eielson F-16 transfer studyOpen houses set for Fairbanks, North Pole
Animal issueson the agenda
Borough Assembly
Man pleads guilty in girlfriend’s deathFaces 35 to 75 years in prison
Please see DEATH, Page A6
IN STOCKFish & Game fills Interior lakes, ponds. Outdoors, C1
3 student-athletes named Academic All-Americans
Sports, Page D1
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