Thursday
September 16, 2004
Ribbon
Cutting Ceremony Officially Opens "Golden Mile"
Mike Barton cutting the ribbon;
Governor Frank Murkowski; Bob Weinstein...
Photo by Dick Kauffman
Ketchikan: Ribbon
Cutting Ceremony Officially Opens "Golden Mile"
- It's
open! Governor Frank Murkowski dedicated the approximately mile-long
3rd Avenue extension in Ketchikan on Wednesday morning with a
ribbon-cutting ceremony officially opening the $16.6 million
road connecting 3rd Avenue between Washington Street and Schoenbar
Road in Bear Valley.
Cutting the ribbon was the
Alaska Commissioner of Transportation & Public Facilities
Mike Barton. The Governor, Mike Barton, the Ketchikan City Mayor
Bob Weinstein, Gary Paxton the Southeast Director of the Department
of Transportation, and Bill Williams spoke briefly at the dedication
ceremony. In attendance were numerous school children and members
of the public.
The new Third Avenue Extension
traverses a rugged, southwest-facing mountainside above the City
of Ketchikan and was built to relieve traffic congestion along
Tongass Avenue in downtown Ketchikan. The new road, at times
referred to as the Golden Mile, is nearly one mile in length.
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more & view photos...
Thursday - September 16, 2004
Alaska: Excellent
King Salmon Escapements Reported Throughout Southeast Alaska
- Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) escapement
surveys show king salmon escapements throughout Southeast Alaska
meeting or exceeding goals. Preliminary region-wide escapement
estimates indicate 180,000 kings have returned to spawn in 11
key systems, the second highest count on record. The Stikine
River greatly influenced numbers with a record high estimate
of over 84,000 kings, three times the upper end of the escapement
range. -
More...
Thursday - September 16, 2004
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 Ketchikan:
Coast Guard suspends search of missing person - The Coast
Guard suspended its search at 12:30 p.m. today for
a person reported missing and in the water in Tongass Narrows
Wednesday afternoon. - More...
Thursday pm - September 16, 2004
Ketchikan: USCG
and Ketchikan volunteers searching for missing person - Coast
Guard Station Ketchikan received a report at 5:42 p.m. Wednesday
of a distressed person in the water in Tongass Narrows.
The recreational boater, who
contacted the Coast Guard, said the person appeared to be a man
wearing a black wet suit and waving his arms in the water near
Rock Point. He disappeared from view shortly after. The reporting
source, about 50 feet from the man at the time, searched the
area thoroughly before notifying Station Ketchikan, who immediately
launched a 47-foot motor life boat and rescue crew to begin the
search. - More...
Thursday am - September 16, 2004
Alaska: Health
of world's sea lions the focus of Wakefield Symposium - More
than 100 scientists who study the world's sea lions, including
dozens who study the decline of Alaska's Steller sea lions, will
gather in Anchorage, Alaska, from September 30 to October 3,
2004, for the 22nd Lowell Wakefield Fisheries Symposium.- More...
Thursday - September 16, 2004
Ketchikan: Alexander
Baranov: Evolution in Leadership -- Lecture and Book Signing
- Alexander Baranov was a great leader in Alaska's history. For
twenty-eight years, from 1790 to 1818, he was Chief Manager of
the Russian American Company. He planned and oversaw the Company's
operations over a vast expanse of the North American coast, ranging
from the far Aleutians to Fort Ross, in Northern California.
Though he did not officially represent the Russian government,
he conducted affairs of state on an international level. Americans
referred to him as the "Governor of Alaska." - More...
Thursday - September 16, 2004
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Columnists
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 Bob Ciminel - Fish or Cut Bait: Hitting
Bill Gates Where It Hurts - It was a tough decision, turning
my back on Bill Gates. In the end though, I really didn't have
a choice. I had to dump Microsoft Network.
MSN has been my Internet service
provider for three years. I switched to MSN after I bought some
Microsoft stock. I tend to buy from companies whose stock I own.
And MSN was cheap at $5.95 per month. They only gave me five
hours of free connect time, but that was okay; I had a T-1 line
at work with instant Internet access that could transfer a bazillion
bits a second.- More...
Thursday - September 16, 2004
 Michael
Reagan: Big
Media Get Smaller - It's been happening right under their
noses but it took Dan Rather's Memogate disaster to alert the
TV network bosses that their days of dominating the news are
over.
And they brought it on themselves.
After decades of peddling all
the news that fits their extreme liberal bias, while being the
sole source of news for tens of millions of Americans, the three
national networks are now in the process of rapid decline, with
such upstarts as Fox cable news running circles around them.
- More...
Thursday - September 16, 2004
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June Allen Column
 John
Koel, Baker to Banker; An eccentric philanthropist John Koel
was a well-known figure in Ketchikan from the day he arrived
in 1901 to the day he died in 1946. The eldest son of German
immigrants who settled in the Midwest, Koel was a 38-year-old
confirmed bachelor, a slight man with high cheekbones, a small
mustache and a tidy bankroll he had saved to finance his adventure
in Alaska. A baker by trade and already a canny businessman when
he alighted on the steamship dock, he quickly toured the new
city of Ketchikan and almost immediately opened the OK Bakery
on Dock Street, near the intersection with Main Street. - Read
the rest of this story by June Allen...
Tuesday - September 07, 2004
 Harold
Gillam: A Tragic Final Flight; Ketchikan remembers the search
Ketchikan's
'Fish House Tessie'; She was proud of the nickname
Fairbanks:
Golden Heart City; A story of its founding
Remembering
'Swede' Risland (1915-1991);The town's most memorable logger
Alaska's
Deepwater Highway; A part of Alaska history
Ketchikan's
American Legionnaires; Here's to 'the boys' of Post #3 -
Ketchikan's
Cruise Ship Industry; A light-hearted look at its origins
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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