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Ketchikan: AMHS
Relocation Information Available - The Alaska Department
of Transportation has made documents available regarding the
Alaska Marine Highway System relocation. - More...
Wednesday - March 10, 2004 - 4:00 pm
Ketchikan:
NTFD
Services Expand - Lt. Jerry Kiffer, Program Manager for the
North Tongass Fire Department 's (NTFD) Emergency Medical Services,
said since February 1, 2004, the NTFD officially began providing
the North Tongass service area residents with fire and ambulance
services. Kiffer said since the 1st of February, they have responded
to three fire calls and six medical calls. Read
more & view photo gallery...
Wednesday - March 10, 2004 - 1:10 am
Ketchikan: House
Finance Committee Leaders Tour Southeast Infrastructure Needs
- Representatives Bill Williams (R-Saxman) and Representative
John Harris (R-Valdez), Co-Chairs of the House Finance Committee
announced Tuesday that they and other Committee members will
visit several southeast Alaskan communities to look at local
capital improvement needs. Both will be in Sitka on Wednesday
for a first-hand look at the deferred maintenance needs of the
Pioneers' Home and the Mount Edgecumbe High School renovation
project. - Read
more...
Wednesday - March 10, 2004 - 1:10 am
Ketchikan: Listen to this story... Faced with nearly
a million and a half dollar budget deficit, the Ketchikan Gateway
Borough Assembly Monday night took its first shot at the borough
budget for next fiscal year. As Deanna Garrison reports, the
Assembly looked at a wide range of cuts and revenue measures
that could help bring borough spending into line with its expenditures.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- linked Wednesday - March 10, 2004
POW: Listen to this story... A major expansion
of the Alicia Roberts Medical Center on Prince of Wales Island
is underway. As Jay Marble reports, when the construction is
over, the Alicia Roberts will have doubled its clinic space.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- linked Wednesday - March 10, 2004
Science: USGS
Research Links Long-Term Droughts in U.S. to Ocean Temperature
Variations in the North Pacific and North Atlantic - Large-scale,
long-lasting droughts in the United States - such as the present
one in the West -- tend to be linked to warmer than normal sea
surface temperatures in the North Atlantic Ocean, and not just
cooling in the tropical Pacific, according to a USGS study published
Tuesday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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more...
Wednesday - March 10, 2004 - 1:10 am
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Alaska: NOAA
Fisheries To Release Crab Rationalization Document - NOAA
Fisheries will release the Draft Environmental Impact Statement
(DEIS) for Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Crab Fisheries on
Friday, March 19, 2004. The document, which reveals environmental
impacts for the proposed crab rationalization plan in Bering
Sea and Aleutian Island crab fisheries, will have a 45-day public
comment period ending May 3, 2004. - Read
more...
Wednesday - March 10, 2004 - 1:10 am
Science:
Scientists
find more keys to the North Pacific Ocean's climate - Using
satellite and other data, scientists have discovered that sea
surface temperatures and sea level pressure in the North Pacific
have undergone unusual changes over the last five years. These
changes to the North Pacific Ocean climate system are different
from those that dominated for the past 50-80 years, which has
led scientists to conclude that there is more than one key to
the climate of that region than previously thought. -
Read more...
Wednesday - March 10, 2004 - 1:10 am
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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!-
Read the rest of this story by June Allen...
Wednesday - March 03, 2004 - 1:00 am
Ketchikan's
Creek Street Dance Hall; echoes of music from the past...
A
Story of an Unfriendly Arctic Island And the heroine who survived
it...
Ketchikan's
Volunteer Legacy; Buckets to hydrants to hi-tech...
Thanks,
Ladies, for the Library - From Bookcase to Building(s)...
KETCHIKAN
COLD STORAGE and colorful Mgr. Jim Pinkerton...
KETCHIKAN'S
NEW YORK HOTEL: Rich history in a small package...
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