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• Goldbelt names new CEO

  10-07-2016 20:51 via ktoo.org
  
  Goldbelt Inc. CEO Elliot “Chuck” Wimberly on July 9, 2016. (Photo by Mary Uyanik)
  Elliot “Chuck” Wimberly will serve as Goldbelt’s new president and CEO.
  The announcement came during Goldbelt’s 42nd annual shareholders meeting Saturday. Goldbelt Board Member Ben Coronell confirmed the news.
  Wimberley was named interim CEO by Goldbelt in a January press release after Richard Irwin left the position at the end of last year.
  According to the press release, Wimber
  
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• Saxman gets grant to replace clan house roof

  10-07-2016 06:22 via ktoo.org
  
  The southeastern Alaska city of Saxman has been awarded a $60,000 grant to replace the roof of its clan house.
  The Ketchikan Daily News reports that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s rural development program in Alaska announced the Saxman grant Thursday.
  The clan house sits on the top of a hill that forms Saxman’s totem park and is the largest of its kind of Revillagigedo Island. Saxman officials say the tribal house roof is 25 years old and primarily made of cedar shakes.
  A $26,
  
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• Researchers are trying to improve tsunami response in coastal Alaska

  10-07-2016 06:22 via ktoo.org
  
  The University of Alaska Fairbanks and state officials are seeking public input on new guidelines for how coastal communities should respond to tsunamis.
  The Kodiak Daily Mirror reports that new modeling shows the potential for extreme currents and flooding if a large tsunami were to hit Alaska’s coastal communities.
  UAF researchers and representatives from the National Weather Service, Tsunami Warning Center and Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management discussed the n
  
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• Anchorage residents protest police shootings

  10-07-2016 06:22 via ktoo.org
  
  Hundreds of people rallied in Midtown Anchorage in the wake of two black men fatally shot by officers in Louisiana and Minnesota and the deadly ambush on officers in Dallas, Texas.
  People lined streets and gathered in the parking lot of the Mall at Sears during the Friday night demonstration organized by Annalisha Jacobs. The Alaska News Dispatch reports that Jacobs told the crowd she was troubled by the shootings and wanted to do something to bring people together as a show of unity.
  People hel
  
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• The Days After: A Nation Reacts To The Week’s Violence

  10-07-2016 06:12 via ktoo.org
  
  Worshipers participate in a “United To Heal Prayer Vigil” at Cathedral Guadalupe in Dallas on Friday, in honor of the police officers who were slain on Thursday.
  Gerald Herbert/AP
  People across the country joined protests and held vigils late this week, following two highly publicized police shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota. As those incidents dominated headlines and social media, a sniper targeted law enforcement at a peaceful protest in Dallas, killing five police officers and
  
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• Serena Williams Wins Wimbledon In Straight Sets For 22nd Grand Slam Title

  10-07-2016 06:12 via ktoo.org
  
  Serena Williams of The United States plays a forehand during The Ladies Singles Final against Angelique Kerber of Germany on day twelve of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 9, 2016 in London, England.
  Clive Brunskill/Getty Images
  If she wasn’t already one of the best tennis players ever, Serena Williams solidified her case Saturday by winning Wimbledon in straight sets for her 22nd Grand Slam title.
  Williams defeated Angelique K
  
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• State crime bill makes reporting crimes safer for sex workers

  10-07-2016 05:55 via ktoo.org
  
  (Creative Commons photo by Andreas Levers)
  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
  
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• Researchers are watching sockeye sizes

  10-07-2016 05:55 via ktoo.org
  
  Wood River sockeye are pictured in this June 2016 photo.
  (Photo by KDLG Staff)
  Alaska’s sockeye salmon came back shorter and lighter than usual last year. As sockeye runs return this summer, biologists have been keeping an eye on their size, tracking whether they’ll be like last year – shorter and lighter than average – or back to their normal weights.
  Longtime Bristol Bay fisherman John Bennett said that at least for the start of the Bristol Bay season, the sockeye in hi
  
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• Petersburg community joins discussion on local wilderness area

  10-07-2016 05:55 via ktoo.org
  
  A meeting in Petersburg about nearby land was met with skepticism on Thursday when community members gathered in the public library to talk about the Petersburg Creek-Duncan Salt Chuck wilderness area.
  There are nineteen wilderness areas in the Tongass National Forest and Adam Andis, a fellow with the Sitka Conservation Society, is focused on three of them.Andis is building character narratives, snapshots, of three wilderness areas in Southeast. The West Chichagof-Yakobi in Sitka, the Stiki
  
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