Saturday
September 25, 2004
'Thomas
Basin'
Front Page Photo by Chris Wilhelm
Ketchikan: Governor
Says Ruling in NRDC Timber Case a Victory; Judge's final decision
could free up timber for struggling Southeast mills - Governor
Frank H. Murkowski today applauded U.S. District Court Judge
James K. Singleton's dismissal of the Natural Resources Defense
Council lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service. Singleton dismissed
the plaintiff's complaint
and denied its motion for a preliminary injunction that would
have prevented the Forest Service from beginning road construction
work for a timber sale. The decision releases approximately 200
million board feet of timber for sale to Southeast Alaska's sawmills
- one being the Pacific Log & Lumber sawmill in Ketchikan.
- More...
Saturday - September 25, 2004
Ketchikan: 2,203
Grams of Cocaine Seized, Three Arrested - As a result of
an investigation initiated September 9th by the Southeast Alaska
Narcotics Enforcement Team (SEANET) into the importation of cocaine
from Seattle, Washington to Juneau using the Alaska Marine Highway,
three have been arrested. - More...
Saturday - September 25, 2004
Ketchikan: Listen to this KRBD story... When the Ketchikan
Gateway Borough Assembly meets Monday, it will consider repealing
term limits for the Borough Mayor and Assembly Members. It will
also take up cost-of-living adjustments for borough employees
and will discuss how it would like to proceed with the management
of borough lands in Ward Cove. Deanna Garrison has this story.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- September 25, 2004
Ketchikan: Listen to this KRBD story.... The State of
Alaska has been given the go-ahead to proceed with permitting
applications for a bridge between Ketchikan and its airport.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- September 25, 2004
Ketchikan: Listen to this KRBD story... Ketchikan School
Board Candidates Dave Lieben and Keith Smith took on student
testing, the District's dropout rate and Superintendent Harry
Martin's contract during Thursday night's KRBD Candidate Call-in
Show. Deanna Garrison has this report.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- September 25, 2004
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Northern Fur Seal Pups
Photo taken by Rolf Ream, NMML
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Alaska: Scientists
Reveal Mixed Population Trends for Marine Mammals - National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries researchers
counting seals and sea lions in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands
of Alaska brought home mixed news this season: the northern fur
seal decline continues in the Pribilof Islands, while Steller
sea lion numbers have increased in western Alaska.
"Two counts in four years
doesn't scientifically establish a clear population trend for
endangered Steller sea lions in western Alaska," said Doug
DeMaster, Director of the Alaska Fisheries Science Center, "but
the numbers point towards stabilization or increase of that population."
- More...
Saturday - September 25, 2004
Alaska: Alaska
scientists find Arctic tundra yields surprising carbon loss;
Carbon loss from soils exceeds storage by plants - Institute
of Arctic Biology (IAB) ecologists Donie Bret-Harte and Terry
Chapin and colleagues working in northern Alaska discovered that
tundra plants and soils respond in surprisingly opposite ways
to conditions that simulate long-term climate warming. - More...
Saturday - September 25, 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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