• State puts famous Fairbanks watering hole up for sale - Alaska Dispatch News

    State puts famous Fairbanks watering hole up for sale - Alaska Dispatch News
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    State puts famous Fairbanks watering hole up for sale
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    Valdez resident Loren Kendall fills up water jugs at the Fox spring, a public use well on the Elliot Highway north of Fairbanks, on September 8, 2015. Kendall was on his way to a moose hunt. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch News). FAIRBANKS — The state ...
  • Ohio teen fulfills wish of halibut fishing in Alaska - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

    Ohio teen fulfills wish of halibut fishing in Alaska - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
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    Ohio teen fulfills wish of halibut fishing in Alaska
    Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
    In this undated photo, Robin, left to right, David, April and Doug Stammen pose for a photo outside the Garden Cottage where they stayed at Bear Canyon Cottages in Homer, Alaska. The Stammens were sent to Homer by A Special Wish Foundation to fulfill ...and more »
  • The bumpy road between Alaska's all-Republican congressional delegation and Donald Trump - Alaska Dispatch News

    The bumpy road between Alaska's all-Republican congressional delegation and Donald Trump - Alaska Dispatch News
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    The bumpy road between Alaska's all-Republican congressional delegation and Donald Trump
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    WASHINGTON — Alaska's all-Republican congressional delegation agrees that GOP candidate Donald Trump is preferable to Democrat Hillary Clinton, but they have struggled to fully embrace his often controversial ways. So how exactly does it stack up?
    Sullivan: No interest in veep slotJuneau Empire (subscription)all 3 news articles »
  • UAF, Alaska officials seek input on tsunami guidelines - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

    UAF, Alaska officials seek input on tsunami guidelines - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
    UAF, Alaska officials seek input on tsunami guidelines
    Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
    KODIAK, Alaska (AP) - The University of Alaska Fairbanks and state officials are seeking public input on new guidelines for how coastal communities should respond to tsunamis. New modeling shows the potential for extreme currents and flooding if a ...
    Researchers are trying to improve tsunami response in coastal AlaskaKTOOall 3 news articles »
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  • 4.8-magnitude quake shakes Seward Peninsula - Alaska Dispatch News

    4.8-magnitude quake shakes Seward Peninsula - Alaska Dispatch News
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    4.8-magnitude quake shakes Seward Peninsula
    Alaska Dispatch News
    A 4.8-magnitude earthquake hit Western Alaska just after 12:30 a.m. Saturday, gently shaking communities on and around the Seward Peninsula, according state seismologist Michael West. By late Saturday morning, West had received no reports of damage ...
  • How Can Alaska Air Successfully Integrate Virgin America? - Fox Business

    How Can Alaska Air Successfully Integrate Virgin America? - Fox Business
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    How Can Alaska Air Successfully Integrate Virgin America?
    Fox Business
    It's been more than three months since West Coast airline Alaska Air announced plans to buy its smaller rival Virgin America. However, there is less clarity than ever about Alaska's plans for the popular Virgin America brand. Continue Reading Below ...
  • School, Alaska officials seek input on tsunami guidelines - KSL.com

    School, Alaska officials seek input on tsunami guidelines
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    KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — The University of Alaska Fairbanks and state officials are seeking public input on new guidelines for how coastal communities should respond to tsunamis. New modeling shows the potential for extreme currents and flooding if a ...and more »
  • VIDEO: A recent college grad lands a job but worries about the future

    VIDEO: A recent college grad lands a job but worries about the future
    The last decade saw a remarkable run-up in oil and gas employment as high oil prices led to record numbers of energy industry jobs in Alaska. That meant young people had an easier time getting started in oil and gas.
    Hannah Vuppula was lucky enough to land an engineering job last year at an Anchorage firm that works on the Trans Alaska Pipeline. She had just graduated from college in Texas.
    But now that Alaska is in its first real recession in nearly three decades, Vuppula doesn’t know wha
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  • Offshore Alaska Hit With More Drilling Regulations - OilPrice.com

    Offshore Alaska Hit With More Drilling Regulations - OilPrice.com
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    Offshore Alaska Hit With More Drilling Regulations
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    Today, the United States Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management released 348 pages of new Requirements for Exploratory Drilling on the Arctic Outer Continental Shelf. Today's rule addresses certain key factors associated ...
    Obama Pretty Much Shuts Down Offshore Drilling In AlaskaDaily Caller
    Obama Administration announces new Arctic drilling rulesAlaska Public Radio Ne
  • Ohio teen fulfills wish of halibut fishing in Alaska - Washington Times

    Ohio teen fulfills wish of halibut fishing in Alaska - Washington Times
    Ohio teen fulfills wish of halibut fishing in Alaska
    Washington Times
    HOMER, Alaska (AP) - David Stammen of Sidney, Ohio, reeled in his first halibut aboard a Homer Ocean Charter boat - followed by 12 more over the course of his fishing trip in June. “It was amazing, other than the fact that you're just about falling off ...and more »
  • Ohio teen fulfills wish of halibut fishing in Alaska - Bristol Herald Courier (press release) (blog)

    Ohio teen fulfills wish of halibut fishing in Alaska - Bristol Herald Courier (press release) (blog)
    Bristol Herald Courier (press release) (blog)
    Ohio teen fulfills wish of halibut fishing in Alaska
    Bristol Herald Courier (press release) (blog)
    In this undated photo, Robin, left to right, David, April and Doug Stammen pose for a photo outside the Garden Cottage where they stayed at Bear Canyon Cottages in Homer, Alaska. The Stammens were sent to Homer by A Special Wish Foundation to fulfill ...and more »
  • Anchorage #BlackLivesMatter event draws hundreds of supporters

    Anchorage #BlackLivesMatter event draws hundreds of supporters
    Demonstrators wave signs in midtown Anchorage in support of Black Lives Matter. (Hillman/Alaska Public Media)More than 300 people gathered in midtown Anchorage on Friday evening to remind the community that Black Lives Matter. The event came in the wake of two more police shootings of black men and sniper attacks on police in Dallas that killed five officers.
    The diverse crowd waved signs reading “Justice for All” and “You don’t have to be black to be outraged” as c
  • PnB Rock - Alaska [New Song] - HotNewHipHop

    PnB Rock - Alaska [New Song] - HotNewHipHop
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    PnB Rock - Alaska [New Song]
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    PnB Rock drops off a new remix to Lil Yachty's "Minnesota," which he calls "Alaska." PnB Rock continues to keep the freestyles coming. Just days after taking on Kanye's “Father Stretch My Hands,” the Philly native decides to come through and share ...and more »
  • 'Permanent Fund only' fiscal plan is unfair to Alaskans - Alaska Dispatch News

    'Permanent Fund only' fiscal plan is unfair to Alaskans - Alaska Dispatch News
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    'Permanent Fund only' fiscal plan is unfair to Alaskans
    Alaska Dispatch News
    The members of the 29th Alaska Legislature will face some very big decisions when the unprecedented fifth special session gets underway on Monday. Never before in Alaska's history has a Legislature needed five special sessions to get its work done, but ...
    Walker's raid on fiscal plan will hurt rural AlaskaThe Arctic Sounderall 6 news articles »
  • Brexit likely to affect Alaska seafood industry - Bristol Bay Times

    Brexit likely to affect Alaska seafood industry - Bristol Bay Times
    Brexit likely to affect Alaska seafood industry
    Bristol Bay Times
    The United Kingdom's recent exit from the European Union — dubbed Brexit — has turned seafood trading on its head. For 43 years, the U.K. has been a major part of the 28 countries comprising the E.U. What the pullout means for long-standing business ...and more »
  • Slain Dallas police officer had Alaska family ties - KTUU.com

    Slain Dallas police officer had Alaska family ties - KTUU.com
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    Slain Dallas police officer had Alaska family ties
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    One of the slain police officers in Dallas, Texas has family ties here in Alaska. The father of Officer Lorne Ahrens lives in Eagle River. William Ahrens told the CBS TV station in Los Angeles that his son Lorne died doing what he loved. The officer's ...and more »
  • Alaska's bear stands tall in national plate poll - Alaska Dispatch News

    Alaska's bear stands tall in national plate poll - Alaska Dispatch News
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    Alaska's bear stands tall in national plate poll
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    Alaska's standing bear license plate has won the 2015 Best Plate Award from the Automobile License Plate Collectors Association. Members commenting on the plate at the group's website praised it as "Beautiful, legible, retro and modern all at the same ...
  • Salmon season is in full swing, and dungeness is going strong - Alaska Dispatch News

    Salmon season is in full swing, and dungeness is going strong - Alaska Dispatch News
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    Salmon season is in full swing, and dungeness is going strong
    Alaska Dispatch News
    Salmon takes center stage each summer but many other fisheries also are in full swing from Ketchikan to Kotzebue. For salmon, total catches by Friday were nearing 28 million fish, of which 10 million were sockeyes, primarily from Bristol Bay. Last week ...
  • Ketchikan's Updike 12th in steeplechase at US Olympic Trials - Alaska Dispatch News

    Ketchikan's Updike 12th in steeplechase at US Olympic Trials - Alaska Dispatch News
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    Ketchikan's Updike 12th in steeplechase at US Olympic Trials
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    Isaac Updike, third from left, follows Tabor Stevens, left, and Travis Mahoney over the water jump en route to a 12th-place finish in the steeplechase finals at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials Friday at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. (Erik ...and more »
  • How a cardboard box could help keep Alaska infants alive - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska

    How a cardboard box could help keep Alaska infants alive - KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
    How a cardboard box could help keep Alaska infants alive
    KTVA.com - Anchorage, Alaska
    Being a parent is wonderful, according to new mother Amy Weaver, but at times difficult and stressful, too. “There's so much parenting books and information that gets thrown at you,” Amy Weaver said. She and her husband Eric are about to bring home ...
  • Report: Alaska publisher freed herself from sinking airplane - The Seattle Times

    Report: Alaska publisher freed herself from sinking airplane - The Seattle Times
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    Report: Alaska publisher freed herself from sinking airplane
    The Seattle Times
    Rescuers reached Alaska Dispatch News publisher and owner Alice Rogoff, 64, within moments of the July 3 accident in Halibut Cove. Share story. By. MARK THIESSEN. Associated Press. ANCHORAGE — The publisher of Alaska's largest newspaper was ...
    NTSB: Alaska Dispatch News owner's plane crashed near tour boat in Halibut CoveAlaska Dispatch News
    Report: ADN publisher freed herself from si
  • Alaska Lowers Flags For Slain Texas Police Officers - webcenter11

    Alaska Lowers Flags For Slain Texas Police Officers - webcenter11
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    Alaska Lowers Flags For Slain Texas Police Officers
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    Governor Bill Walker ordered all Alaska flags to be lowered today in honor of the five police officers slain in Dallas, Texas. This order followed a directive from the White House to lower all United States flags to honor the victims of the Thursday ...and more »
  • State fights Seward Highway passing pain with slower right lanes - Alaska Dispatch News

    State fights Seward Highway passing pain with slower right lanes - Alaska Dispatch News
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    State fights Seward Highway passing pain with slower right lanes
    Alaska Dispatch News
    State transportation officials are reducing speed limits in the right lane of passing areas near Turnagain Pass to 55 mph this month. (Courtesy Alaska DOTPF). If you drive the Seward Highway near Turnagain Pass later this month, you'll see some ...
  • Anchorage Nordstrom Rack dispute pits mall owners against tenants - Alaska Dispatch News

    Anchorage Nordstrom Rack dispute pits mall owners against tenants - Alaska Dispatch News
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    Anchorage Nordstrom Rack dispute pits mall owners against tenants
    Alaska Dispatch News
    Shoppers enter the Nordstrom Rack next to Sears on Thursday, July 7, 2016. (Bill Roth / Alaska Dispatch News). When Nordstrom Rack announced plans to move into The Mall at Sears in Midtown Anchorage, it was hailed as a big business boon for an aging ...and more »
  • Building cultural ties through spray paint


    Spray paint is often associated with illegal scrawling on underpasses and alleyways. But the Anchorage Museum is using it as a tool to connect kids to culture.
    Artist Dwayne “Dwayno Insano” Manuel painting at the Anchorage Museum. (Hillman/Alaska Public Media)Download Audio.
    Artist Dwayne Manuel stands before his seven-foot painting of a raven outside of the Anchorage Museum, traffic streaming by. The dark blue of the plywood structure he’s transforming shines through the black
  • Alaska News Nightly: Friday, July 8, 2016


    Stories are posted on the APRN news page. You can subscribe to APRN’s newsfeeds via email, podcast and RSS. Follow us on Facebook at alaskapublic.org and on Twitter @aprn
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    Fort Wainwright soldier pleads guilty in fuel-theft case
    Associated Press
    Federal prosecutors say a 36-year-old Fort Wainwright soldier has pleaded guilty to receiving bribes in a plot to steal fuel at a base in Afghanistan.
    Murkowski: GMO labeling bill ina
  • Murkowski: GMO labeling bill inadequate for salmon buyers - Alaska Public Radio Network

    Murkowski: GMO labeling bill inadequate for salmon buyers - Alaska Public Radio Network
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    Murkowski: GMO labeling bill inadequate for salmon buyers
    Alaska Public Radio Network
    The U.S. Senate Thursday passed a bill that is said to require consumer labeling of genetically modified foods, but opponents say it is too weak to be called a requirement. Alaska U.S Sen. Lisa Murkowski said the legislation would not obligate the ...and more »
  • CIRI eyes land in refuges, NPR-A to fulfill promise

    CIRI eyes land in refuges, NPR-A to fulfill promise
    Map:DNRAlaska’s delegation to Congress writes bills every year to transfer or sell federal land to local governments and Native corporations. In late May, Sen. Lisa Murkowski sponsored one public land bill for Native corporations that’s particularly far-reaching — apparently more expansive than the senator intended.
    Congress, in 1971 promised Cook Inlet Region Inc. more than a million acres of land. CIRI Senior Vice President for Land Ethan Schutt says the corporation
  • Murkowski: GMO labeling bill inadequate for salmon buyers


    The U.S. Senate Thursday passed a bill that is said to require consumer labeling of genetically modified foods, but opponents say it is too weak to be called a requirement. Alaska U.S Sen. Lisa Murkowski said the legislation would not obligate the makers of genetically engineered salmon to clearly distinguish their product from a natural salmon.
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    “The reality is we will not see the labeling that I, as an Alaskan, who is putting fish on the
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  • Murkowski: GMO labeling bill doesn’t go far enough

    Murkowski: GMO labeling bill doesn’t go far enough
    The U.S. Senate Thursday passed a bill that is said to require consumer labeling of genetically modified foods, but opponents say it is too weak to be called a requirement. Alaska U.S Sen. Lisa Murkowski said the legislation would not obligate the makers of genetically engineered salmon to clearly distinguish their product from a natural salmon.
     Photo: Office of Senator Lisa Murkowski.“The reality is we will not see the labeling that I, as an Alaskan, who is putting fish on the
  • Soldotna track star Allie Ostrander shines at Olympic 5K trials

    Soldotna track star Allie Ostrander shines at Olympic 5K trials
    Soldotna’s Allie Ostrander has advanced to the finals in the U.S. Olympic Trials this week. If Ostrander places in the top three on Sunday, she’ll be off to Rio this summer. Even if she doesn’t, she’ll still consider the race a win.
    Allie Ostrander (Photo courtesy of the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame)In less time than it takes to grill a steak, Soldotna’s Allie Ostrander crossed the finish line in the women’s 5,000-meter semifinals at the U.S. Olympic Trials on T
  • Omnibus crime bill makes it safer for sex workers to report crimes

    Omnibus crime bill makes it safer for sex workers to report crimes
    Late last month a woman who had been brutally murdered was found in the vehicle of 34-year-old Benjamin Wilkins of Anchorage. The deceased, 30-year-old Jacqueline Goodwin, was laid to rest beside her mother in Kotzebue. Police are still investigating the relationship between Wilkins and Goodwin, but court records show in the past she was charged with prostitution.
    Under current law, if a sex worker witnesses or is the victim of a crime, the person cannot report the crime without fear of being ch
  • Akiachak prepares to inventory land for trust status

    Alaska tribes can start asking the federal government to take their lands into trust. Essentially they can ask the federal government to take lands out of state jurisdiction like lower-48 Indian Country. The change comes after a federal appeals court last week dismissed Alaska’s challenge that had stopped land trust applications. Now four Alaska tribes that sued the Interior Department can proceed. That includes Akiachak and Tuluksak.Akiachak Screenshot
    (Image courtesy of Google Maps)Phill
  • Few clues in ongoing mystery of Alaska whale die-off - Alaska Public Radio Network

    Few clues in ongoing mystery of Alaska whale die-off - Alaska Public Radio Network
    Few clues in ongoing mystery of Alaska whale die-off
    Alaska Public Radio Network
    A humpback whale found dead on a beach near Hope on June 28, 2016. (Photo by Katie Aho). Marine researchers were hoping that 2016 was going to be a better year for whales in Alaska. “We were kind of thinking it was over and just these last couple of ...
  • Few clues in ongoing mystery of Alaska whale die-off

    A humpback whale found dead on a beach near Hope on June 28, 2016. (Photo by Katie Aho)Marine researchers were hoping that 2016 was going to be a better year for whales in Alaska.
    “We were kind of thinking it was over and just these last couple of weeks things have really picked up,” said Kathy Burek, a veterinary pathologist who does post-mortems on dead whales. She’s been very busy this past year. In 2015, 45 large whales were found dead in the Gulf of Alaska alone—more
  • Fort Wainwright soldier pleads guilty in fuel-theft case

    Federal prosecutors say a 36-year-old Fort Wainwright soldier has pleaded guilty to receiving bribes in a plot to steal fuel at a base in Afghanistan.
    Sgt. Sheldon Morgan entered the guilty plea in Fairbanks Friday to a count of conspiring to receive bribes. The Army says Morgan was assigned to Kentucky-based Fort Campbell at the time he was deployed at the Forward Operating Base Fenty between May 2010 and May 2011.
    His sentencing is scheduled for October.
    Prosecutors say Morgan was an Army spec
  • Invasive elodea species intrigues economist

    Invasive elodea species intrigues economist
    Efforts to eradicate the invasive aquatic plant “Elodea” have had mixed results. Herbicides are being considered in Fairbanks, after mechanical means proved unsuccessful there, while on the Kenai Peninsula, the plant is all but gone. To date, the effects of the plant on Alaska’s environment have been measured in terms of its impact on fresh water resources, but now an economist at ISER [Institute of Social and Economic Research] is working to analyze the risk , and the economic
  • Summer flight deals out of Alaska; Anchorage airport gets some new upgrades - Alaska Dispatch News

    Summer flight deals out of Alaska; Anchorage airport gets some new upgrades - Alaska Dispatch News
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    Summer flight deals out of Alaska; Anchorage airport gets some new upgrades
    Alaska Dispatch News
    As a certifiable aviation geek, or avgeek, one of my favorite hobbies is plane-watching at the airport. In the summertime, the tail art at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport is impressive: JetBlue, American, Air Canada, Sun Country, Icelandair ...and more »
  • AK: The Dena’ina culture camp of Kijik

    On the north shore of Lake Clark, there’s a place called Kijik. It’s the historic homeland of the Dena’ina Athabascans of the area, and also the site of a culture camp where youth and elders from the village of Nondalton came together last week. Dozens of abandoned house sites dot the area, and KDLG’s Hannah Colton joined as the kids got their hands dirty learning about one of them.
    Archaeologist Randy Tedor shows kids how to sift through dirt at the “Quk Taz’
  • Judge’s decision halts Valley mine project

    A federal judge’s ruling in a long-standing court action against a Palmer coal mine is being hailed as a win for environmental groups.
    Late Thursday, US district court judge Sharon Gleason sided with Castle Mountain Coalition, Cook Inletkeeper and other groups in a case that could determine the validity of Usibelli Coal’s Wishbone Hill mine permits. Gleason’s ruling reverses a decision by the federal Office of Surface Mining which had validated Usibelli’s Wishbone Hill pe
  • Revisiting Endurance Athletes

    Jennifer Pharr DavisThis week we’re revisiting a great show about some incredible athletes. Jennifer Pharr Davis hiked the Appalachian Trail in 46 days, averaging 47 miles a day. David Johnston finished the 350-mile Iditarod Invitational in four days, running on snow. They’ll both join us as we try to understand what makes ultra-endurance athletes tick. Their accomplishments are almost super human. How do they get that way, and what makes them go?
     
    HOST: Charles Wohlforth
  • US Senate bill introduced that would prevent export of Native cultural and religious items

    US Senate bill introduced that would prevent export of Native cultural and religious items
    Tribes across the country would have new opportunities to reclaim lost artifacts under a new Senate bill. The Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony , or STOP Act, would prevent the export of cultural and religious items.
    Martin Heinrich, junior senator from New Mexico speaking in Washington D.C. about the STOP Act. (Screenshot courtesy of Office of Martin Heinrich)Martin Heinrich is the junior senator from New Mexico who introduced the STOP Act to the Senate.
    “It’s time to make sure
  • 49 Voices: Karen Paul of Kwigillingok

    This week we’re hearing from Karen Paul in Kwigillingok. Paul is a dual language teacher who teaches in English and Yupik.
    PAUL: I went to college and started working here. And she was my colleague, the same teacher who taught me when I was a second or third grader. It felt so great. She inspired me. She was still teaching like a all-star. I enjoyed school so much. I would come every day. I loved that. When I taught them, knowing they learned something. That made me happy.
    When w

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