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• Perseverance presents To Kill a Mockingbird

  27-04-2017 21:45
  
  To Kill a MockingbirdThough a child may be taught the concept of what is right and what is wrong, it is only through life’s specific experiences that she starts to understand what those concepts really mean and how they can affect her and loved ones around her. Such is the story of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird as adapted to the stage by Christopher Sergel and presented by Perseverance Theatre in the Discovery Theatre. Actors Keith McCoy (“Tom Robbins”), Theo Houck (
  
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• Southeast Alaska tribal government moves into defense contracts - KTOO

  27-04-2017 19:45
  
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  Southeast Alaska tribal government moves into defense contracts
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  Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska President Richard Peterson, right, poses with delegates during this month's Tribal Assembly in Juneau. (Photo courtesy Tlingit-Haida Central Council). Southeast Alaska's regional tribal ...
  
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• Medicaid helps Alaska fight opioid addiction - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-04-2017 05:11
  
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  Medicaid helps Alaska fight opioid addiction
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  About 100 people gathered at Nunley Park in Wasilla on Tuesday, January 10, 2017, to honor people lost to heroin and opioid addiction and the families they left behind. John Green helped organize the event to fall on the one-year anniversary of the ...
  
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• It's a dirty time of year in urban Alaska. Here's how you can help clean up. - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-04-2017 04:21
  
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  It's a dirty time of year in urban Alaska. Here's how you can help clean up.
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  The trees are trying hard to open their leaves. Little bits of green grass are starting to poke up on brown lawns all across Southcentral Alaska. But on top of that? Garbage and dog poop, all around the city of Anchorage. Welcome to springtime in ...
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Wednesday, April 26, 2017

  27-04-2017 04:05
  
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  Anchorage police determine one man responsible for 5 killings last summer
  Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage
  Police in Anchorage say they’ve determined that a single person was responsible for a wave of killings over the summer.
  Alaska governor tries to force lawmakers to weigh nomine
  
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• Wrangell’s Happy Cannabis given go-ahead, but its doors will remain closed

  27-04-2017 03:42
  
  Wrangell’s only proposed pot business has been given the go-ahead, pending the approval of a local building permit.
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  The Wrangell Borough Assembly approved Happy Cannabis for both cultivation and retail Tuesday. The Marijuana Control Board approved owner Kelsey Martinsen’s plan earlier this month, but there is some uncertainty whether local residents will be able buy marijuana.
  Martinsen is weighing the burden of a new excise tax implemented by the borough.
  Earlier this mon
  
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• With loss of leader, Alaska Commons faces uncertain future

  27-04-2017 03:32
  
  John Aronno, former managing editor for Alaska Commons (Photo courtesy of Alaska Commons)An influential web-site in Alaska lost its driving force earlier this week. For several years, Alaska Commons has brought news and commentary with a left-leaning perspective to tens of thousands of readers. With the departure of its managing editor, the group’s future remains unclear.
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  John Aronno started writing online about Anchorage politics more than a decade ago. After a stint working fo
  
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• Anchor Point woman allegedly strips naked and fights an Alaska ... - Alaska Dispatch News

  27-04-2017 01:50
  
  Anchor Point woman allegedly strips naked and fights an Alaska ...
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  A 30-year-old Anchor Point woman faces an array of criminal charges for allegedly stripping naked, fighting an Alaska State Trooper and commanding her dogs ...and more »
  
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• Anchorage police determine one man responsible for 5 killings last summer

  27-04-2017 01:26
  
  Mugshot of 40-year-old James Dale Ritchie. Ritchie was posthumously determined by police to be responsible for five killings over the course of last summer.  (Photo courtesy of Anchorage Police Department)Police in Anchorage say they’ve determined that a single person was responsible for a wave of killings over the summer.
  In a statement today, the department said homicide detectives have “sufficient probable cause” to conclude James Dale Ritchie murdered five people picke
  
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• Mariculture poised to come of age in Alaska - Alaska Public Radio Network

  27-04-2017 01:20
  
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  Mariculture poised to come of age in Alaska
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  NOAA Researcher Mike Murphy holding Laminaria saccharina sugar kelp algae. Kelp grows over the winter months in Southeast Alaska, and is not difficult to farm. According to Markos Scheer, it's a $20 billion industry worldwide. (NOAA photo/David Csepp).
  
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• Mariculture poised to come of age in Alaska

  27-04-2017 01:19
  
  NOAA Researcher Mike Murphy holding Laminaria saccharina sugar kelp algae. Kelp grows over the winter months in Southeast Alaska, and is not difficult to farm. According to Markos Scheer, it’s a $20 billion industry worldwide. (NOAA photo/David Csepp)Alaska’s mariculture industry is in its infancy, compared to other regions of the world, but it has the potential to be much larger — maybe worth as much as $1 billion within three decades.
  Markos (“Mark”) Scheer is a b
  
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• State’s biggest military training exercise takes off next week

  27-04-2017 01:11
  
  Northern Edge military exercise in the Gulf of Alaska. (2016 file photo: U.S. Navy)The skies above the Interior and Southcentral Alaska will get a lot busier starting next week, when Northern Edge 2017 gets under way. It’ll be the biggest military-training exercise to be held this year in Alaska.
  The tempo of operations around Eielson Air Force, Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson and the state’s training ranges, will pick up beginning Monday and last through May 12. But Alaskan Command
  
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• Government shutdown would close Skagway’s national park at the start of cruise ship season

  27-04-2017 01:04
  
  Park ranger Charlotte Henson leads a group of visitors on a walking tour of Skagway in summer of 2016. (Photo: Emily Files)In less than a week, the first cruise ship of the season will dock in Skagway, bringing thousands of visitors to the busy Northern Lynn Canal port.
  But if lawmakers in Washington haven’t agreed on a spending plan by then, a government shutdown would close one popular visitor attraction – Skagway’s national park.
  Congress has until midnight Friday to agree o
  
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• Remote controlled kayaks ready for research at LeConte Glacier

  27-04-2017 00:49
  
  Mechanical engineer, June Marion, works on the kayak’s engine assisted by her dad, Bobby Brown. Working on the rear kayak is robotics science students, Nick McComb and Corwin Perren. (Photo/Angela Denning)LeConte Glacier near Petersburg has been the focus of a lot of research lately. It’s the southern-most tide water glacier in the northern hemisphere and scientists have been studying it to give them a better idea of glacial retreat and sea level rise around the world. There is a lot
  
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