Sockeye fire trial postponed again

Updated: 4:00 p.m. Nov. 29, 2016
The Sockeye fire trial, which was scheduled to begin Tuesday, has been re-scheduled. At pre-trial hearing on Monday, Kevin Fitzgerald — attorney for defendant Greg Imig — asked the court to delay the trial until mid-January, due to an Imig family emergency.
Assistant Alaska district attorney Eric Senta opposed the motion, saying that numerous Willow area mushers had planned to attend the trial this week, and that a January date would interfere with th