relocation package: Fairbanks Alaska Relocation - Fairbanks, Fort Wainwright & Eielson Air Force Base
- 03/02/08 11:33 PM
Welcome to Fairbanks, Alaska! We are happy to provide this Fairbanks Alaska Relocation Guide as a resource to help you discover the best of our fair city. We have been privileged to call Fairbanks and Interior Alaska home for almost 30 years and are proud to welcome you to The Golden Heart City. Fairbanks has come a long way since the day entrepreneur E.T. Barnette ran aground on the Chena River and established a trading post in the remote wilderness. In the more than 100 years since, Fairbanks has developed into a thriving community with some of the friendliest folks around. … (14 comments)
relocation package: 10 days - 1,200 miles - Do you have what it takes?
- 02/27/08 10:36 PM
It has been called the Last Great Race. It is long and arduous and is truly unlike any other journey in the world. Imagine, if you can, a two week odyssey through the heart of the frozen Alaskan wilderness. The endurance test of a lifetime will take you 1,200 miles through scantly touched forests, across frozen rivers, including the mighty Yukon, which at points stretches more than two miles from shore to shore and where overflow lies in wait for the unsuspecting, across dizzying mountain peaks that would humble ordinary men, through remote native villages few outsiders have seen to an … (10 comments)
The University of Alaska Fairbanks campus is the flagship of the Univeristy of Alaska Statewide System. UAF holds the honor of being one of the few, but certainly the northernmost, of America's Land, Sea and Space Grant institutions, offering 25 certificates and 161 degrees in 115 disciplines ranging from bachelors to Ph.Ds. Originally founded with a federal land grant in 1915 (44 years before Alaska Statehood) on what was a federal Agricultural Experiment Station, the University of Alaska, then known as the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, was … (7 comments)
relocation package: Developing the Minds of Future Leaders - Fairbanks Schools
- 02/26/08 04:58 PM
Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) U.S. journalist and writer. While not a complete antidote, a formal education will prevent us from spend our years stumbling down the path of un-elightened foolishness. The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District is comprised of 34 elementary, middle, junior, senior, career tech and charter schools as well as several alternative learning programs. A staff of 1,908 teachers, counselors, principals and district administration serve a student population of 14,103. Although varying from school to school, the district teacher to studen ratio … (5 comments)
relocation package: Fairbanks Health Care - Caring For Mind, Body & Spirit
- 02/25/08 08:52 PM
A vital part of any community is its medical and health care care centers. Fairbanks Memorial Hospital is the flagship of medical community in Fairbanks. A non-profit community hospital, Fairbanks Memorial is owned by the Greater Fairbanks Community Hospital Foundation with Banner Health Systems managing the day to day operations. While Banner Healthy Systems is paid an annual administrative fee, all other net operational revenues remain in Fairbanks and are reinvested in the hospital campus as well as used to provide community services for the citizens of Fairbanks and Interior Alaska. Services provided by Fairbanks Memorial include: * Banner Alzheimer's Institute … (6 comments)
relocation package: Fairbanks Alaska Condominium Directory
- 02/16/08 09:20 PM
Fairbanks Alaska Condominiums... All the benefits of home ownership without all the work. Sound good? If so, a Fairbanks condominium might be perfect. Fairbanks has a wide variety of condominium projects to choose from starting with a cozy 1 bedroom 1 bath flat for $88,000 to a stunning new condominium development on the Chena River for $350,000. Most Fairbanks condominium fees include heating oil/natural gas, water/sewer, lawn care, snow removal, refuse service, structural insurance and building maintenance. There are a handful of condominiums that include everything listed above except heating oil/natural gas. For those select developments the condominium fees are considerably … (9 comments)
relocation package: PCS Military Relocation - Ft. Wainright & Eielson BAH Rates
- 01/20/08 05:04 PM
2008 BAH Rates Fort Wainwright & Eielson Air Force Base Are you using your BAH benefits to your best advantage? If you're in base housing or renting off base, you should consider using your BAH to build equity while you're stationed in Alaska. The average price of a new/newer single family home in North Pole is $232,400. Factoring in local property taxes and hazard insurance would bring your mortgage payment to $1,680+/-. Why not let Uncle Sam make your mortgage payment for you? Assuming a modest growth of 3% per annum, at the end of your tour, your home would … (2 comments)
relocation package: Surviving Alaskan Winters
- 12/03/07 03:16 PM
Surviving an Alaskan Winter Well, it looks as though Old Man Winter has finally arrived in earnest. The temperatures are expected to dip to as low as -20; factoring in the wind chill and that number drops to -35. Brrr. It happens every year and every year we’re not ready for it. As the leaves turn a golden yellow and the fireweed makes its last appearance for the season, we all know winter is just around the corner. For those of us who have called Alaska home for a while we know that winter just isn’t the same as it used … (3 comments)
relocation package: Fairbanks; The Golden Heart of Alaska
- 11/03/07 07:35 PM
The city of Fairbanks is located in Interior Alaska near the confluence of the Chena and Tanana Rivers in the Tanana Valley. We are 360 miles north of Anchorage, 125 south of the Arctic Circle, 3,500 miles from Los Angeles and 4,200 miles from Washington, DC. Nicknamed "The Golden Heart City", Fairbanks is the largest city in the interior region and the second largest in Alaska. Founded in 1901 by Captain E.T. Barnette as a trading post on the Chena River, the community grew and was eventually named after Senator Charles Fairbanks. The discovery of Gold in the hills just north … (0 comments)
Welcome to Fairbanks, Alaska! We are happy to provide this Fairbanks Alaska Relocation Guide as a resource to help you discover the best of our fair city. We have been privileged to call Fairbanks and Interior Alaska home for almost 30 years and are proud to welcome you to The Golden Heart City. Fairbanks has come a long way since the day entrepreneur E.T. Barnette ran aground on the Chena River and established a trading post in the remote wilderness. In the more than 100 years since, Fairbanks has developed into a thriving community with some of the friendliest folks around. … (14 comments)
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