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February 25, 2004
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Front Page Photo by Sharon Roeber
Ketchikan: Ketchikan
artists plan Native wax museum - Ketchikan artists and retailers
want to establish a Southeast Alaska Native wax museum north
of Ketchikan to depict what life was like for the Haida, Tlingit
and Tsimshian people hundreds of years ago. - Read
this story.... POW: Prized
Lab found long after owner given up for dead; 'He was swimming
so fast there was a wake coming off of him,' rescuer says
- A Labrador retriever missing since its owner's boat sank in
6-foot seas northwest of Prince of Wales Island in late January
has been found alive on an isolated cove several miles from the
accident. - Read
this story... Ketchikan: "Alaskans
in Pink" photo exhibit opens at KGH
- "Alaskans in
Pink", a photography exhibit by Alaskan photographers honoring
individuals who have shown outstanding support to breast cancer
patients, opens Friday March 5, 5-7pm in the lobby of Ketchikan
General Hospital (KGH). -
Read more... NW: Oregon
Coast Salmon Listing Invalidated: Ninth Circuit Dismisses Appeal
of Landmark Alsea Case - Claiming victory for "good
science and common sense," Pacific Legal Foundation attorney
Russ Brooks on Tuesday hailed a decision from the Ninth Circuit
Court of Appeals that effectively invalidates, once again, the
listing of the Oregon Coast coho salmon as a "threatened
species" under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The case
is Alsea Valley Alliance v. Evans, the most ground-breaking environmental
decision of the last decade. - Read
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Ketchikan:
Alaska: Democrats
Offer Plan for School Funding - Alaska schools are facing
what some districts say are the worst budget cuts ever. Inflation
and higher overhead costs, combined with under-funded government
mandates, have proven to be a recipe for devastation in schools
from Barrow to Ketchikan, from Northway to North Pole. - Read
more... Alaska: Sen.
Murkowski Welcomes Education Secretary's Apology to NEA; Says
It's Time To Make Educatioin Reform Law Work - U.S. Sen.
Lisa Murkowski said Tuesday she welcomed an apology by U.S. Secretary
of Education Rod Paige after his remarks Monday about the National
Education Association. Murkowski called the comments disappointing,
but said what's important now is for everyone to concentrate
on making the No Child Left Behind education reform law work
for Alaska's students. - Read
more... Alaska: Administration
Bill Would Exclude Senior Management and Confidential Employees
from Collective Bargaining - The Murkowski administration
has introduced legislation that would exclude some high level,
senior management and confidential positions from collective
bargaining with union representation. The reason to exclude the
state employees is that allowing them to bargain creates a conflict
of interest that can benefit the employees personally, at the
public's expense. No other state allows confidential employees
to bargain, and very few allow managers to bargain. Private businesses
do not allow confidential or managerial employees to bargain.
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more... Alaska: Murkowski
Proposes Natural Gas Alliance - Speaking to a meeting of
his fellow governors in Washington, DC, Governor Frank Murkowski
on Tuesday announced he is forming an "Alaska Gas Support
Alliance" among gas-producing and gas-consuming states.
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More... Ketchikan: Ketchikan
General Hospital implements room service - On February 23,
2004, PeaceHealth Ketchikan General Hospital (KGH) implemented
a new room service menu, which is being piloted in the New Beginnings
Birthing Center. - Read
more... Wrangell and Ketchikan: New
$10 Day Use Permits Required At Anan Wildlife Observatory
- The Wrangell Ranger District will implement a new day-use permit
and $10 fee system at the Anan Wildlife Observatory starting
in July. People wishing to visit Anan between July 5 and Aug.
25 each year will need a permit, which can be purchased in advance.
During this period, visiting hours at the site will be from 8
a.m. to 6 p.m. - Read
more... Jan's Story: The
healing power of knowledge by Kevin Lamb - There must be
something she could do herself, Jan Lively thought when she learned
breast cancer had returned and spread to her liver and bones.
She had to learn everything she could do to fortify her body
and help her chemotherapy beat back the cancer. It was the only
chance she would have. - Read
this story... Dick Morris: Dubya's
Dilemma - THE most recent Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll,
the worst ever for George W. Bush, shows why he is in trouble
and what he must do to get out of danger. - Read
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echoes of music from the past By June Allen
Madison Lumber & Hardware, Inc. ~ Downtown Drugstore ~ Alaska Glass & Supply ~ Sourdough Bar Liquor Store ~ Davies-Barry Insurance ~ Sitnews... |
Visually,
not too much has changed along Creek Street over the past century.
Several of the vacant shacks once occupied by sporting women
of the past have managed to survive for decades, boarded off,
defying demolition. A few of today's remaining ramshackle houses
along the boardwalk are more valuable for atmosphere than occupancy.
But the Good Fortune restaurant at #4 now welcomes patrons where
shady lady Annie Watkins once welcomed her gentlemen callers.
Then of course at the other end of the street, at #24, there's
Dolly's House now a museum and gift shop. Dolly's House
today, crowded with cruise ship tourists, would surprise the
sporting woman who owned and occupied it for half a century.
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