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September 12, 2013

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Likely one of the most photographed little cubs in Ketchikan, this little one appeared to take time to pose for the photographer while enjoying its fish snack
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Ketchikan: Andrew Washburn new Senior Curator of Collections for the Ketchikan Museums - Andrew Washburn has joined the Ketchikan Museums staff as  Senior Curator of Collections.  

Andrew Washburn new Senior Curator of Collections for the Ketchikan Museums

Andrew Washburn new Senior Curator of Collections for the Ketchikan Museums
Photo courtesy Ketchikan Museums

Until recently, he was Historical Projects Manager at the Center for Wooden Boats, in Seattle. 

Commenting on the appointment, Museum director Michael Naab said, "We're delighted that Andrew has joined the Museum staff.  He's a great fit for Ketchikan, and for the Museums." - More...
Thursday PM - September 12, 2013

Ketchiikan: UAS Ketchikan Hosting Marine Invasive Species Bioblitz - UAS Ketchikan is hosting a Marine Invasive Species Bioblitz for a day of learning and fun. The goal of the Bioblitz is to engage and educate the public about invasive species that threaten Alaskan coastal waters. Participants will learn about the targeted invasive species in the morning and then go out to look for these invasive species around Ketchikan.

Hosted by the University of Alaska Southeast, the Bioblitz is a collaboration of several local and federal agencies, including the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program, NOAA, Alaska Fish and Game, and San Francisco State University’s Romberg Tiburon Center.

Several invasive species will be targeted including: the solitary tunicates Ciona intestinalis and Ciona savignyi; the club tunicate Styela clava; the colonian tunicates Didemnum vexillum, Botryllus schlosseri and Botrylloides violaceous; the bryozoans Watersipora subtorquata and Bugula neritina; and the sea weed Undaria pinnatifida - all species that have recently invaded the West Coast. - More...
Thursday PM - September 12, 2013

Ketchikan: Ketchikan Man Arrested For Alleged Distribution & Possession of Child Pornography - Local Detectives were contacted yesterday by Investigator Shanigan with the Alaska Bureau of Investigation who was working with the Anchorage Police Department concerning a local man who was actively down-loading child pornography in Ketchikan.

Ketchikan Detectives working with the Alaska State Troopers, the U. S. Marshal Service and a member of Homeland Security executed a search warrant at a North Yorktown location.  At the time of contact by the Officers, Ryan Michael Thomas Brown, age 34 of Ketchikan, was reported to be actively downloading child pornography.  - More...
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Alaska: Native Leaders to Testify at First ANILCA Subsistence Hearing in DC Next Week - The United States Congress is holding its first Alaska National Interest Lands Act (ANILCA) oversight hearing on the critically important subsistence food security priority for Alaska Natives in nearly twenty years.  The hearing in the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee on September 19th in Washington, DC is the first major hearing to examine wildlife management authority within the State of Alaska under the ANILCA and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA).  

AFN Subsistence Committee Chairwoman Dr. Rosita Worl and Robert Anderson, a Professor at the University of Washington School of Law, will testify on behalf of Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN). Other witnesses include AFN Board members Jerry Issac and Ana Hoffman, as well as Anthony Christenson, mayor of Hydaburg. Dr. Worl explains, “Our ability to subsist on our traditional hunting and fishing grounds is critical to our cultural survival and also essential for our food security.” 

AFN witnesses plan to review the history and policy decisions that led to the adoption of Title VIII of ANILCA, and how Title VIII no longer fulfills Congress’ intent to protect Alaska Natives hunting and fishing way of life.  In addition, AFN will urge the Committee to include two demonstration projects in any legislation that moves during this Congress.  These demonstration projects will allow the Native community to show the value and efficiency of co-management in the context of the Yukon River fisheries and on Native-owned lands in the Ahtna region, paving the way for a statewide solution to the current system of dual management. - More...
Thursday PM - September 12, 2013

Alaska: Former AK Rep. Alan Dick Ordered to Repay State 18,000 for Ethics Violations - The Alaska House Subcommittee of the Select Committee on Legislative Ethics issued a public decision yesterday regarding a complaint (H 12-07) filed against former Representative Alan Dick, a one-term legislator defeated in the 2012 general election. Dick, a Republican, represented House District 6, in the Fairbanks area.

The complaint contained eight allegations.  The committee dismissed three allegations; two of these alleged campaign materials were stored, distributed or posted in Dick’s Fairbanks legislative office and one alleged he threatened to take legislative action based on a person’s decision to provide or not provide a political contribution or a thing of value.

The committee found Dick in violation of five of the allegations. - More...
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Thomas Basin Sunrise
Wednesday morning's sunrise presented a glorious display of colors.
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Alaska: Alaska Army National Guard promotes first female Brigadier General - The Alaska Army National Guard is promoting Col. Catherine F. Jorgensen to the rank of Brigadier General at a ceremony Friday. The historical significance of this promotion is that Jorgensen will become the first female to be promoted to the rank of General within the history of Alaska Army National Guard.

Alaska Army National Guard promotes first female Brigadier General

Col. Catherine F. Jorgensen to be promoted to the rank of Brigadier GeneraL
Photo courtesy Alaska Army National Guard

“This indicates and validates that any member of the Alaska Army National Guard can achieve anything that they set out to do if the organization and they do it as a team,” said Brig. Gen. Leon M. Bridges, the assistant adjutant general of the Alaska Army National Guard.

Achieving the rank of Brigadier General is no small feat, said Bridges.

“It is a huge accomplishment,” Bridges exclaimed. “If you take a corps of officers who commission in any given year, if you take 100 of them, by the time you add all the filters and funnels in an Army career, typically only one or two will ever pin on a star - More...
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letter In The Tongass, Every Job Counts By Governor Sean Parnell - The story of America includes starting a business and passing that entrepreneurial spirit on to your children. Whether it was a farm, a hardware store, or something else, America was built by these kinds of family enterprises, and family businesses still power Alaskan opportunity. - More...
Thursday PM - September 12, 2013

letter Vote yes! on KMC By Sheri Boehlert - As a school administrator, my days are spent planning and facilitating all that needs to happen to make sure our kids get the best education possible and how to best support our teachers in that goal. As a member of the Ketchikan Medical Center's Board of Governors, I've witnessed firsthand administrators and staff thoughtfully striving to meet another complex goal ensuring each person in our community has access to the widest array of high-quality health care possible, right here in Ketchikan. - More...
Thursday PM - September 12, 2013

letter Library Funding By Agnes Moran - At the September 5, 2013 Ketchikan City Council meeting, Matt Olsen made many assertions regarding Borough participation in the capital costs for the new library, that to use Mr. Olsen's own words "quite frankly were not true". - More...
Thursday PM - September 12, 2013

letter Re: The Myth Of Intact Watersheds By Duane Hill - When I first lived in the Stockton, CA area, there were no salmon in the rivers. The rivers were dry in late summer. This was normal as the rivers were not year round waterways, 100 years ago they only had water when there was run off from the Sierras. - More...
Wednesday AM - September 12, 2013

letter The Myth Of Intact Watersheds By Eric Muench - Heather Hardcastle's August 29 letter of advice to Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell was completely misleading on one important point. While the salmon resource is indeed a very important part of the Southeast economy, it definitely does not depend on "intact watersheds". - More...
Wednesday AM - September 11, 2013

letter Baffled by Parnell’s Recent Actions By Bill Walker - Recent decisions by the Parnell Administration have left many Alaskans, including myself, scratching our heads wondering if anyone is at the helm. - More...
Wednesday AM - September 11, 2013

letter Observation from the road & home By A.M. Johnson - Having returned to K-town from a vacation drive through British Columbia, observations are in order. We first departed Prince Rupert driving to Prince George. The first several miles, 20 or so, were through fields of "Tansy" road side coming and going. No concern by our contact with various Canadians asked about the drought of dead cows, moose, or other wild life as a result of this plant being allowed to run wild. Just the normal common shrug of the shoulders followed by the required heed to the bountiful industrial active that warrants the clapping of hands for "Job well Done". - More...
Wednesday AM - September 11, 2013

letter Ketchikan Performing Arts Center By Lallette Kistler - I addressed the Borough Assembly Tuesday night about the fact that the Legislative Lobbying committee ignored the Ketchikan Performing Arts Center project last week, and I thought the greater community might be interested in what I had to say.   It didn't make sense that we were their #1 and the community's #4 last year, but this year we weren't even going to be numbered at all. - More...
Saturday - September 07, 2013

letter Agree With Kiffer, No Nightmare By Keith Stump - Having been a passenger on the Millennium when it had to return to Ketchikan due to mechanical difficulties to one of its electric propulsion motors, it was interesting to hear and read about the trip cancellation and other passenger responses. My take is that much ado was made about not much by the news media. - More...
Saturday - September 07, 2013

letter Syria - Count The Cost By Glenn Mollette -  The President and Congress will make the decisions when it comes to Syria. They and military leadership have far more information than I. However, we will not go into Syria, throw our rocks and run back home unscathed. The scathing may occur immediately or weeks or months later. - More...
Saturday - September 07, 2013

letter Obama's war in Syria By Marvin Seibert - War on Syria, here we are going to use Guided Missiles, B52 and B1 bombers and up to 75,000 troops on the ground. Our Delusional Narcissistic President is trying to save face by putting our troops in harm's way. What arrogance, he now says he did not draw a red line -- video does not lie. What else do you need to know that our President is incapable of decisions and taking responsibility for anything! - More...
Saturday - September 07, 2013

letter RE: Let's prioritize wild Alaska salmon By Lois Morgan - Hooray, Heather. Your phrase 'the countries preeminent salmon forest' totally rang my bell. I've never heard or seen it, and it is just so apt I hooted out loud. I've been needing this phrase. - More...
Saturday - September 07, 2013

letter WHAT IS YOUR POINT? By David G. Hanger - Exactly what is your point, Laura Plenert? You refer to the murder of an Australian student athlete in Oklahoma, a case of which I am quite aware, as somehow racially motivated. All in fact you are doing when you do that is parrot the nonsensical and racist views of Rush Limbaugh and Matt Drudge, who are the only individuals stupid enough and corrupt enough to attempt to use this case as a racial counterpoint to the Trayvon Martin case. While you are doing a fine job of parroting the views of your lords and masters, the facts of the case are quite a bit more problematical in that regard. How exactly do you get racial motivations out of this crime when one of the suspects is black, one is half-black and half-white, and the third is all white? - More...
Saturday - September 07, 2013

letter Parrot whiner By Karl Shlaudeman - Well Mr. Hanger you might want to make sure that you are bleeding and hurt before you ever take appropriate action or defend yourself against a criminal. I truly wish all of you would wake up and realize there is no perfect world; white, black or whatever. - More...
Saturday - September 07, 2013

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