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• Summer camp students complete skeletal rearticulation of sea lion

  06-08-2016 19:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Students participating in Sitka Sound Science Center’s summer camp week, aptly named “Dem Bones,” recently finished assembling the skeleton of a California sea lion.
  The bones were cleaned and brought to Sitka by Shannon Atkinson of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
  A group of 12 students, ranging from sixth to 12th grade, spent the week learning about the bones and putting the skeleton back together.
  The California sea lion is slightly smaller but similar in appearance
  
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• How prison sentence will impact Skagway assemblyman’s term is unclear

  06-08-2016 17:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Dan Henry (Photo courtesy The Skagway News)
  Skagway Assemblyman Dan Henry was sentenced this week to just over a year in federal prison.
  Henry was convicted of failing to file his income tax returns over a four-year period. How Henry’s prison sentence will impact his service on the borough assembly remains to be seen.
  Henry has served in Skagway government for about 20 years.
  His current three-year term doesn’t end until 2017. However, he’s been ordered to report
  
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• Public workers receive similar compensation to those in private sector

  06-08-2016 03:19 via ktoo.org
  
  State and local government workers receive similar compensation to private-sector workers, according to an Institute of Social and Economic Research report. (Photo by Andrew Kitchenman/KTOO)
  State and local employees in Alaska are paid less than private-sector workers, but benefits make up the difference, according to a new study from the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Institute of Social and Economic Research.
  Public workers earned 8 percent less than those in the private sect
  
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• Trump names Wall Street and real estate titans as economic advisers

  06-08-2016 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Top row, left to right: David Malpass, Howard Lorber, Harold Hamm; Bottom row, left to right: Steve Mnuchin, Tom Barrack, John Paulson
  Donald Trump has released the names of his economic advisers, a list heavy with Wall Street and real estate industry figures, but short of actual economists.
  The names include several people from the world of hedge fund and private equity firms, including Steven Feinberg, chief executive and co-founder of Cerberus Capital Management; Thomas J. Barrack, chief exec
  
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• Governor to sign update to Alaska’s military justice code

  06-08-2016 03:00 via ktoo.org
  ANCHORAGE — The code of military justice for the Alaska National Guard is getting an update, two years after a scathing report into alleged misconduct found a lack of confidence in the guard command.
  Gov. Bill Walker is expected to sign the overhaul into law Saturday during a community event in Anchorage hosted by the Alaska Army National Guard.
  Alaska’s code was established in 1955 and remained largely untouched until the Legislature this spring approved changes to empower the guard
  
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• Shell returns to Unalaska

  06-08-2016 02:45 via ktoo.org
  
  The Aiviq in Unalaska. Photo: Sarah Hansen/KUCB
  Shell is back in Unalaska. Dutch Harbor was a staging area for Shell’s unsuccessful search for oil in the Arctic Ocean last year. This week, three ships — the Aiviq, the Dino Chouest, and the Ross Chouest — associated with Shell’s Arctic efforts arrived in Unalaska on a mission to remove the last signs of that effort.
  A Shell representative says the vessels are “tasked with retrieving more than 50 anchors from the Chuk
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 8-8-16

  06-08-2016 02:14 via ktoo.org
  Monday at 3 on A Juneau Afternoon,
  We’ll talk to Caitlin Warbelow about her concert Tuesday night at the Rockwell;
  We’ll get an update on the First Folio readings;
  We’ll learn about The Learning Center with guest, Jeffrey Smith.
  And we’ll get a preview of tonight’s concert by Trampled By Turtles.
  That, Writers Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, today on A Juneau Afternoon, live at 3 on KTOO-NEWS, repeated at 4 on KRNN, and available on line via ktoo.org.
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• Kodiak Airport runway extension example of compromise

  06-08-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  A recently completed runway extension at the Kodiak Airport originally prompted environmental concerns among local groups and a tribal organization, but some members of the community now say they’re satisfied with the compromise that was reached.
  Tom Lance, the natural resources director for the Sunaq Tribe of Kodiak, said the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities ended up extending one runway 600 feet into the ocean by the Buskin River.
  There was another exte
  
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• Anchorage summit kicks off ferry management study

  06-08-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The fast ferry Fairweather docks at Juneau’s Auke Bay Ferry Terminal in 2013. It’s one of several ships with an uncertain future as the marine highway system’s budget shrinks. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska News)
  An effort to restructure the Alaska Marine Highway System begins this month with a summit in Anchorage.
  The Aug. 20 event will be the first for a 12-member steering committee established to oversee the effort.
  Robert Venables will coordinate the sum
  
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• Sitka chef competes for national seafood crown

  06-08-2016 01:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Chef Colette Nelson is the owner and executive chef of the Mediterranean-inspired restaurant Ludvig’s Bistro in Sitka. On Saturday (08-06-16), she’ll compete in a national seafood cook-off in New Orleans. (Emily Kwong, KCAW, Sitka)
  A Sitka chef has been chosen to compete in the 2016 Great American Seafood Cook-Off. On Saturday, Collette Nelson will battle chefs from across the country in front of a live TV audience in New Orleans. She is the owner and executive chef of the Mediterran
  
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• X-rays reveal hidden portrait under painting by Edgar Degas

  06-08-2016 00:39 via ktoo.org
  
  False color reconstruction of Degas’ hidden portrait (detail). The image was created from the X-ray fluorescence elemental maps.(Scientific Reports)
  Using specialized X-ray imaging, a team of researchers in Australia has revealed a striking painting of a woman’s face hidden under French Impressionist Edgar Degas’ Portrait of a Woman.
  The researchers believe the auburn-haired woman in the hidden work — which they also attribute to Degas — is Emma Dobigny, who was rep
  
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