The Chugiak-Eagle River area used to be its own borough, after getting legislative approval to separate from the Greater Anchorage Borough in 1974. However, the newly-formed government was challenged in court.
“When they went to court, they actually won in the first court, but they lost in the Alaska Supreme Court, and they basically got drawn back into Anchorage,” said Catherine Margolin.
Now, more than 50 years later, Margolin and other Chugiak-Eagle River residents are trying to form their own government once again. Margolin chairs the Eaglexit movement, formed in 2018. She said many people in the area feel like they don’t have a voice in the wider Anchorage government…