Wednesday
March 03, 2004
'Matanuska
and Columbia'
Front Page Photo by Carl Thompson
 Ketchikan: Listen to this story... The Ketchikan Gateway
Borough Assembly Monday night voted unanimously to lease borough
office space in Ward Cove to the Alaska Marine Highway System.
As Deanna Garrison reports, the borough is lobbying the state
to relocate Marine Highway administrative offices from Juneau
to Ketchikan as early as next summer.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- linked Wednesday - March 03, 2004
Ketchikan: Ketchikan
approves proposal to move ferry system out of Juneau - The
Ketchikan Gateway Borough approved a proposal to the state on
Monday to move the administrative offices of the Alaska Marine
Highway System and about 40 jobs out of Juneau to Ketchikan.
- Read
this story...
Juneau Empire - linked
Wednesday - March 03, 2004
Craig: Listen to this story... The City of Craig
hopes to save about $80,000 over the next 10 years by refinancing
its swimming pool bond. As Jay Marble reports, the city hopes
to take advantage of lower interest rates.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- linked Wednesday - March 03, 2004
Ketchikan: City
To Unveil Museum Expansion Plan Wednesday - The public is
invited to view the exciting concept design for a new, expanded
community museum, proposed for the Centennial Building site in
downtown Ketchikan. Representatives of the architectural firm
of Livingston Slone will be in Ketchikan to present the plans
at an open house on Wednesday, March 3, from 5:00 until 7:00
PM at the Ted Ferry Civic Center. Refreshments will be served
and the public will have an opportunity to view the plans, visit
with Museum staff and the architects. A formal presentation of
the concept design is scheduled for 5:30 PM. - Read
more...
Wednesday - March 03, 2004 - 1:00 am
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Green Eggs & Ham
Photo by Mark O'Brien
 Ketchikan:
Houghtaling Principal Les McCormick stood in for Sam I Am as
he served green eggs and ham to over 500 students as they celebrated
Dr. Seuss' 100th birthday on Tuesday, March 2. - More...
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Alaska: Murkowski
Questions Effect on Alaska of Cuts to Forest Service Budget -
Saying she fears the Administration is being shortsighted by
underfunding programs to aid the nation's forest industry and
to promote forest health, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski Tuesday
urged a reprogramming of funds to forestry programs, specifically
programs that help the development of a timber industry in Alaska.
- Read
more...
Wednesday - March 03, 2004 - 1:00 am
Alaska: Gun
liability bill overloaded with provisions that would hurt
the rights of Alaska's hunters and sportsmen - Saying the
gun liability bill had become overloaded with provisions that
would have hurt the rights of Alaska's hunters and sportsmen,
Sen. Lisa Murkowski Tuesday voted to shelve gun liability legislation,
at least for the present. - Read
more...
Wednesday - March 03, 2004 - 1:00 am
Southeast: Tongass
Recognized For Environmental Stewardship - The Tongass National
Forest recently earned national recognition for outstanding environmental
stewardship.
The Sitka Ranger District garnered
the Forest Service's national 2003 Rise to the Future award in
the Collaborative Aquatic Resource Stewardship category for its
Redoubt Lake Restoration and Management Program. - Read
more...
Wednesday - March 03, 2004 - 1:00 am
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Wood chopper's station
with fuel for steamers on the Upper Yukon... [between ca. 1900
and ca. 1930]
Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library
of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951. Courtesy
Library of Congress
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June Allen Column
Nulato AK: a small village
but big in history
Nulato,
Alaska 99765 is little known beyond the state's Interior except
perhaps during the running of the world famous Iditarod dogsled
races. In even number years the race follows a northern route
to Nome and mushers pass through Nulato. The name of the Athabaskan
Indian village on the Yukon River means "dog salmon camp,"
modified to express "in the shelter of the bluff."
It is home today to a population of about 340, almost wholly
Athabaskan. For such a small town, Nulato has some fascinating
stories to tell!
Not only was Nulato an important
fish camp along that stretch of the Yukon River for centuries
before the arrival of Western explorers and traders, Nulato was
also an ancient trading center for commerce between Alaska's
Athabaskan Indians and the Inupiat Eskimos. So its location was
a natural for a Russian fur-trading post during the years that
the Tsar owned Alaska. It is also one of only two of Alaska's
villages - Kaltag being the other - that celebrates the ancient
Stick Dance, a ceremony also important among the tribes in the
Southwestern United States... -
Read the rest of this story by June Allen...
Wednesday - March 03, 2004 - 1:00 am
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