FORT KENT – He doesn’t wear a badge or ride a horse, but for this weekend at least, call him Marshal Shawn Graham. Race marshal, that is. And his word is the law of the trail. When the Moosehead Lake Area 100-Mile Sled Dog Race… Read More
    ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Four-time Iditarod champion Susan Butcher, who in 1986 became the race’s second female winner and brought increased national attention to its grueling competition, has died. She was 51. Butcher, who grew up in Cambridge, Mass., died Saturday in a Seattle hospital of… Read More
    NEWRY – Twenty-three Yukon huskies are frantically barking and jumping up and down and sideways, their born-to-run bodies eager to pull the dog sleds that are hitched behind them. But the barking comes to a halt – almost as if somebody turned a switch to… Read More