WATCH: After falling over 200 feet down Mount Verstrovia in Sitka, the Coast Guard was able to rescue a 70-year-old hiker from the mountainside.
The chamber initially announced that Colony Days would be rebranded to the Braided River Festival in a press release on Thursday.
The Christmastime weekend schedule of events put on by the chamber — Colony Christmas — was also temporarily rebranded as Hometown Holidays. Public backlash ensued almost instantly. Residents in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough and businesses began voicing strong opposition on social media to the name change of the event that has taken place since 1936.
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