Wednesday
May 05, 2004
'Tour
Season Kicks Off; First Cruise Ship Arrives'
Charles and Marie Obrul of Montreal,
Canada...
The 2004 tour season kicked off Tuesday morning in Ketchikan
with the arrival of the first cruise ship of the season - the
Norwegian Sun. - More...
Front Page Photo by Carl Thompson
Ketchikan: Listen to this story... School funding would
be cut, grants to non-profit organizations eliminated and taxes
increased, under a proposed budget presented to the Ketchikan
Gateway Borough Assembly Monday night. As Deanna Garrison reports,
residents seeking full funding for schools packed the meeting
as the Assembly got its first glimpse of the fiscal year 2005
draft budget.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- linked Wednesday, May 05, 2004
Alaska: Governor
Appeals to Senate to Pass Permanent Fund Endowment, Avoid 1980s-Like
Economic Disaster - Governor Frank Murkowski addressed the
Alaska State Senate Tuesday, asking members to pass a Permanent
Fund endowment plan in order to avert a potential economic crisis.
Without a long-term fiscal plan, a statewide economic disaster
would likely result if the budget reserve is depleted and oil
prices drop. - Read
more...
Wednesday - May 05, 2004
Ketchikan: Alaska
House Passes $143 Million Education Bond Package; Bonds would
fund major maintenance projects - A bill that would allow
the state to issue more than $143 million in revenue bonds to
pay for a variety of construction projects at schools and university
campuses around the state was passed late Tuesday evening by
the Alaska State House. ... Representative Bill Williams (R-Saxman),
co-chair of the House Finance Committee, said the bonds will
provide badly needed help for the state's educational institutions.
- Read
more...
Wednesday - May 05, 2004
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Workers haul the portside
main diesel engine aboard the 110-foot Seward-based cutter Mustang.
Official U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Jarrod Kushla,
Cutter Mustang
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Ketchikan: Cutter
Mustang in dry-dock facility in Ketchikan for major overhaul
- Coast Guard cutter Mustang departed Seward, Alaska on April
10th and transited to Ketchikan for a 15-week dry-dock maintenance
availability at the Coast Guard Integrated Support Command base,
making it the longest maintenance period to date for the 18-year-old
patrol boat. - Read
more & view photos...
Wednesday - May 05, 2004
Ketchikan: Williams
Adds Incentive for Development of Ethanol made from Wood and
Seafood Waste - Representative Bill Williams (R-Saxman),
co-chair of the Alaska State House Finance Committee, Tuesday
introduced an amendment to an Alaska Senate Bill aimed at encouraging
the production of ethanol made from wood and seafood waste. The
amendment adopted by the Finance Committee adds language to Senate
Bill 337, a bill that allows the Alaska Energy Authority
to make loans to communities and utilities to encourage alternative
energy production. -
Read more...
Wednesday - May 05, 2004
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'Surprise Downpour'
Local resident, Rick Lystad, was
caught in the sudden cloud-burst downtown Tuesday evening.
Photo by Carl Thompson
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Alaska: Enbridge
Applies To Negotiate Contract Terms for Gas Pipeline Under Stranded
Gas Development Act - The Murkowski administration has received
an application under the state's Stranded Gas Development Act
from Enbridge Inc. to negotiate fiscal terms for a contract to
build a natural gas pipeline from Alaska's North Slope to the
Yukon border. Enbridge is a major Canadian oil and gas transportation
company, operating more than 9,000 miles of natural gas pipelines
in the US and Canada. - Read
more...
Wednesday - May 05, 2004
Ketchikan: Alaska House Passes $93 Million General
Obligation Bond Package; Voters will decide on funding
for needed transportation projects - The Alaska State House on Tuesday passed a
bill that would ask voters to approve the issuance of $93,280,000
million in general obligation bonds to accelerate the completion
of many statewide transportation projects. - Read
more...
Wednesday - May 05, 2004
Ketchikan: National
Nurses Week to Be Celebrated May 6-12 - The work of America's
2.7 million registered nurses to save lives and to maintain the
health of millions of individuals is the focus of this year's
National Nurses Week, celebrated annually May 6-12 throughout
the United States. - Read
more...
Wednesday - May 05, 2004
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May 3, 2004 Looking
west from Russell Fiord. The gap is about 640 feet at its narrowest
point. Photo courtesy U.S. Forest Service
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Alaska: Hubbard
Glacier Is On The Move Again - Hubbard Glacier is on the
move and Forest Service officials are concerned it could once
again block the entrance to Russell Fiord, near Yakutat, if it
continues progressing at its current rate.
"Hubbard has been advancing
for the past few months and is currently about 640 feet from
closing off Gilbert Point," said Yakutat District Ranger
Tricia O'Connor. "It has advanced about 1000 feet in the
past two to three months."
In 1986 and 2002, Hubbard Glacier
closed the entrance to Russell Fiord, blocking the flow of the
fiord into Disenchantment Bay. The water level in the newly formed
Russell Lake rose to 83 feet above sea level in 1986 and 61 feet
in 2002. Both times, the ice and moraine dam broke. - Read
more...
Wednesday - May 05, 2004
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Ketchikan's
Cruise Ship Industry; A light-hearted look at its origins - Tourists
are nothing new to Ketchikan. These seasonal visitors have been
spilling out onto the downtown docks for more than a century
now. They share certain traits: They're thrilled to find themselves
in distant, exotic Alaska; they find Ketchikan quaint and charming;
and, they are wide-eyed and excited as they board charter fishing
boats, or climb into sightseeing coaches to rumble off over the
city's trestle streets. The basic awe most people feel when seeing
our little town remains constant, even after a century. The things
that have changed over the years are the much larger numbers
of ships and visitors visiting each summer and the numbers of
attractions available to them.
At the turn of the 20th century,
brand new Ketchikan was even then being visited by tourists and
journalists. In The Ladies World Magazine of March 1905, travel
writer Myra Drake Moore described the Ketchikan she visited the
summer of 1904: "[Ketchikan] is the port of entry into Alaska
it and its sister towns of Juneau and Skagway are all very much
alike in architecture, and seem to be 'happen-so's'. Ketchikan,"
she archly wrote, "has accumulated itself."
- Read
the rest of this story by June Allen...
Saturday - April 17, 2004
Ketchikan's
First City Players; Did you hear that applause?
A
biography of Alaska's herring: A little fish of huge importance...
Read more stories by June Allen...
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