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• Algo Nuevo: September 20, 2015

  21-09-2015 23:15
  Here’s the Sunday, September 20, 2015 edition of Algo Nuevo con Dave Luera — Something New with Dave Luera. If you have questions, comments or music requests for host Dave Luera, send email to algonuevo [at] alaskapublic [dot] org or post your comment at the bottom of this post. All tracks played are listed below in the following format:
  Song Title
  Artist Name
  Album Title
  CD Label
  Duration
  EuropaSantanaThe Best of SantanaColumbia506
  Cumbia MixSolidoClub MixFreddie1118
  SiempreAl Hurri
  
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• Oldest Find of Salmon Remains in North America

  21-09-2015 22:36 via nytimes.com
  The 11,500-year-old remains were found in Alaska, a study says, confirming that salmon fishing in North America dates from the end of the last ice age.
  
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• 2015 Permanent Fund Dividend is $2,072

  21-09-2015 20:27
  A record-breaking Permanent Fund Dividend was announced Monday morning, not from the Governor, but instead from 12-year-old student, because, according to Governor Bill Walker, the fund is really about the next generation.
  Palmer Jr. Middle School 7th grader, Shania Sommer, 12, announced the amount of the 2015 Permanent Fund Dividend. (Photo by Josh Edge, APRN – Anchorage)
  “The amount is, $2,072,” Shania Sommer said. She is a 7th grader at Palmer Junior Middle School
  
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• In My Family: Sun

  21-09-2015 20:13
  
  Sage Worl teaches Raven how to say “sun” in his native language.
  
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• Canadian company considers Ketchikan ferry service

  21-09-2015 17:26
  A tour boat company based in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, is considering running a weekly ferry service to Ketchikan next summer.
  The Ketchikan Daily News reports that the owners of West Coast Launch and its subsidiary, Prince Rupert Adventure Tours, say they are interested in making trips to Alaska next year, especially as the Alaska Marine Highway Service reduces service.
  Owners Debbie and Doug Davis said at the Southeast Conference on Wednesday that as the Alaska Ferry system drops from t
  
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• Anchorage man arrested for stabbing sleeping girlfriend

  21-09-2015 17:26
  
  A 22-year-old Anchorage man has been charged with assault for stabbing his girlfriend in the head as she slept.
  Court records say the man said he went two days without sleep and heard screaming voices that “told him to kill his girlfriend” Thursday night.
  The 18-year-old girlfriend called 911. Anchorage police found her bleeding from a wound on her head and say she was awoken from sleep by her boyfriend stabbing her.
  She was taken to the hospital and police say her injuries are not l
  
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• No trauma on body of Juneau man found in wetlands

  21-09-2015 17:02
  
  The Alaska State Medical Examiner says there was no obvious trauma on the body of a Juneau man found in the Mendenhall Wetlands.
  KTUU-TV reports that the medical examiner identified the dead man as 56-year-old John Ross Knudson of Juneau. Two duck hunters found his body when hunting in the wetlands Wednesday morning.
  Juneau Police spokesman Lt. David Campbell says the body was exposed to the elements for a minimum of several days, making identification difficult.
  
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• Juneau Empire to lay off 5 employees, consolidate with other newspapers

  21-09-2015 17:01
  The Juneau Empire on Channel Drive. (Photo by Heather Bryant/KTOO)
  The Juneau Empire and Capital City Weekly recently told five of its employees they were being laid off. Three people in the business office and two graphic designers are losing their jobs by the end of the year. Those duties will be done either in Anchorage or outsourced to another country.
  The Juneau Empire’s parent company is Georgia-based Morris Communications. In Alaska, the media company also owns the daily Kenai Penin
  
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• 3 passers-by, officer stop woman from jumping off overpass

  21-09-2015 17:01
  
  The Anchorage Police Department says a police officer and three passers-by stopped an apparently suicidal woman from jumping off a pedestrian overpass Saturday afternoon.
  Police say in a statement that it received several calls saying a woman was on top of the overpass on the city’s east side. The woman seemed distraught and it looked like she was going to jump.
  Police say Officer Tyler Sutcliffe and two passers-by – Daniel Mullins, 28, and Duane Hunte, 51 – tried to talk her d
  
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• As Fires Grow, a New Landscape Appears in the West

  21-09-2015 13:28 via nytimes.com
  Governments’ interference in the natural cycle of fires, along with climate change, has created more brush on forest floors and hotter, drier seasons.
  
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