Olympic champion Lea Ann Parsley returned to Ohio State yesterday for a reception held in her honor by the College of Nursing, where she plans to pursue her doctorate.

Twins Eliza (left) and Emma Doucet, 6, eat cookies and pose with their dolls at Shelburne Museum’s annual doll tea party on Sunday afternoon. / ELLIOT deBRUYN, for the Free Press

This winter on the lagoon ice behind Kotzebue and in the hills and mountains, local residents may have witnessed a bizarre sight: a white guy on snowshoes, dressed in bright orange bibs and a blue Goretex jacket, carrying a heavy pack and dragging a log lashed in an orange plastic kiddie sled. That was me. Training to climb Denali.