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• Voters won’t get say in boundary between South and Central Peninsula hospitals

  10-08-2016 23:00 via ktoo.org
  The boundary between South and Central Peninsula hospitals will stay the same.
  Clam Gulch and Ninilchik residents have voiced complaints about paying mill rate taxes to support the South Peninsula Hospital Service Area, when they live much closer to Central Peninsula Hospital, Soldotna.
  Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly voted at its July 26 meeting whether to ask voters in the October municipal election if the boundary line should be moved south. That vote was a tie, so the measure failed.
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• Texas town’s fortunes rise and fall with pump jacks and oil prices

  10-08-2016 23:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Out on the wide open plains of West Texas, you can see the horizon for 360 degrees, interrupted only by the nodding up and down of pump jacks pulling oil up out of the earth.
  There lies the aptly named town of Midland.
  To get the hang of the place, you need to start downtown, on a corner near the Chase Bank, where an electric billboard displays the essentials: the temperature, a message — “God Bless Midland” — and a number. On this day, it’s 45.94.
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• What $5 million? Murkowski’s GOP rivals disregard long odds

  10-08-2016 22:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Thomas Lamb, left, is running against Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the Republican Primary. Bob Lochner, of Wasilla, is a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate. (Photos Liz Ruskin, APRN)
  U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has raised more than $5 million for her re-election effort.
  She’s got big signs and TV ads across the state.
  Three men are running against her in next week’s Republican Primary.
  We found two undaunted optimists running shoestring campaigns, and a third candidate who rebuffed our inte
  
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• Sitka Assembly narrows city attorney selection

  10-08-2016 22:00 via ktoo.org
  During a special meeting Tuesday, Aug. 10,  City and Borough of Sitka Assembly members debated the merits of 12 applicants for Sitka’s city attorney position and voted on their top picks for follow-up interviews.
  The applicant pool includes a mix of local lawyers and attorneys outside Alaska, along with proposals to do the job through a private practice.
  Mark Danielson, the city’s director of Human Resources, began by asking the Assembly to list their top cho
  
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• Hunter drowns in Yukon River; 3 ejected when boat hits log

  10-08-2016 21:30 via ktoo.org
  PILOT STATION — The body of a Pitka’s Point moose hunter has been recovered from the Yukon River near Pilot Station.
  Alaska State Troopers say Thaddeus Riley, 25, drowned Monday.
  Riley and two other Pitka’s Point men, Derek Sipary, 20, and Noel Tinker, 25, were on a hunting trip when their boat hit a submerged log.
  All three were ejected from the boat. Sipary and Tinker swam to shore.
  Riley started swimming toward his boat but went under in the current and did not surface, Troo
  
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• Firefighting chemicals in U.S. drinking water sources, federal data shows

  10-08-2016 21:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Protesters in Hoosick Falls, N.Y., in June hold signs calling for hearings on contamination in their town’s drinking water by a chemical related to firefighting foam. (Mike Groll, Associated Press)
  A study of drinking water supplies throughout the U.S. shows that numerous sources are contaminated with firefighting chemicals.
  A team of scientists examined government data from thousands of public drinking water supplies. The water samples had been collected by the federal Environmental Prote
  
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• Alaska restaurant serving elk fined for calling it reindeer

  10-08-2016 21:00 via ktoo.org
  This might be an only-in-Alaska problem: A restaurant in Fairbanks that has told customers since 2013 it was serving reindeer tenderloin was actually giving them elk.
  The Pump House has been fined $50,000 by the state for mislabeling the meat.
  The parent company of the restaurant agreed to pay the criminal fine, donate $10,532 to three non-profit food groups and publically apologize.
  Restaurant co-owner Vivian Bubbel said an advertisement with the apology ran Saturday in the Fairbanks Daily
  
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• In Bethel House race, candidates question Democratic cred

  10-08-2016 19:58 via ktoo.org
  
  If you had to put the two Bethel House candidates somewhere on the political spectrum, they’d both be Democrats. But, maybe with a lowercase “d.”
  Each accuses the other of not being Democratic enough.
  House District 38 has one of the highest population of voters registered as Democrat. The district encompasses Bethel, the lower Kuskokwim River and several coastal villages.
  With no Republican challenger, the race will be decided in the Aug. 16 primary.
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• Southeast Alaska Native key figure, Marge Byrd, dies at 81

  10-08-2016 05:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Marge Byrd died on July 24. Byrd was deeply involved with Wrangell’s Native community. (Shady Grove Oliver, KSTK News)
  The Southeast Alaska Native community is mourning the loss of a key figure.
  Marge Byrd, 81, died on July 24. Services were held Saturday at St. Phillip’s Episcopal Church.
  Byrd was deeply involved in Wrangell’s Native community. Long-time friend, Tis Peterman, credits Byrd with helping to bring back Tlingit culture.
  “She celebrated her culture very proudl
  
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• Sockeye records set at the Chilkoot weir

  10-08-2016 04:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Commercial boats set nets at the mouth of the Chilkoot River on Monday. (Jillian Rogers, KHNS)
  Commercial fishermen in the Upper Lynn Canal are working overtime after a flood of sockeye salmon showed up last week.
  So far, this season is shaping up to be a good one, with decent returns, healthy harvests and larger fish.
  Last week saw a couple of escapement records set for the number of reds through the weir on the Chilkoot River.
  “It’s a phenomenal push of fish all at once,” sai
  
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• Trending: #FirstSevenJobs started with Juneau musician Marian Call

  10-08-2016 03:03 via ktoo.org
  
  Marian Call performs at Wanderer’s Refuge in Chicago on Oct. 23, 2014. (Creative Commons photo by Jamie Bernstein)
  Juneau singer-songwriter Marian Call has gone internet-famous again, this time with the Twitter hashtag #FirstSevenJobs.
  #firstsevenjobs TweetsOn Monday, Call explained where the idea came from on Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal.RYSSDAL: You get this idea about first seven jobs. Tell me how you got there.
  CALL: I’m writing a song about work. It might sound funny, but I
  
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• After four days, power returns to village of Aniak

  10-08-2016 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The village of Aniak lost power Saturday, and electricity was restored for about half the village within hours, but the other half of the town scrambled to move meat into working freezers. Power for the rest of Aniak has been restored. (Adrian Wagner, KYUK)
  After four days without power to half the town, the village of Aniak’s electricity was restored Saturday afternoon.
  Power back within hours of the initial outage for half of the town, but the other half was left to deal w
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 8-10-16

  10-08-2016 02:26 via ktoo.org
  Wednesday at 3 on A Juneau Afternoon,
  We’ll get a preview of David Woodie’s Thursday presentation about his art, currently on display at the City Museum;
  We’ll get the details on how to help with the Annual Panhandlers’ Toy Run;
  We’ll get a preview of Friday’s Kindred Post Concert;
  And we’ll talk with author Steven Levi about his new book, The Matter of the Vanishing Greyhound.
  That, Writer’s Almanac, Bird Note, music and more; live at 3 on KTOO-NE
  
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• DEC changes strategy to motivate cleanup of Skagway ore basin

  10-08-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  representatives from Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, Skagway and other organizations met to discuss decades-old lead contamination at Skagway Ore Terminal. (AIDEA photo)
  The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation is done watching from the sidelines as Skagway struggles with how to go about cleaning up decades-old contamination in the ore basin.
  The lead contamination poses risks to the environment and human health, but cleanup plans are stalled because of
  
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• Justice Department to issue critical report on Baltimore Police Department

  10-08-2016 01:14 via ktoo.org
  People walk by a mural depicting Freddie Gray in Baltimore on June 23, at the intersection where Gray was arrested in 2015. (Patrick Semansky, Associated Press)
  The Baltimore Police Department has disproportionately targeted African Americans for stops and arrests, a Justice Department investigation has found.
  The Justice Department launched a civil rights investigation in May 2015, after the city was beset by protests and riots over the death of Freddie Gray.
  Justice is set to release the full
  
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• Trump appears to suggest ‘Second Amendment people’ could stop Clinton

  10-08-2016 01:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the audience during a campaign event at Trask Coliseum in Wilmington, N.C., on Tuesday. (Sara D. Davis, Getty Images)
  Donald Trump has been saying for months that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton wants to “abolish the Second Amendment,” but now the Republican presidential nominee has gone even further.
  At a rally in Wilmington, N.C., on Tuesday afternoon, Trump repeated that charge and then appeared to many observers to sugge
  
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• Shooting at beach bonfire party in Chignik Bay lands man in custody

  10-08-2016 01:00 via ktoo.org
  A man who allegedly fired a shotgun at party-goers during a beach bonfire in late July is scheduled to return to court later this week.
  Harry Leland Halsey, 40, who said he lives in Chignik Bay but keeps a Fairbanks mailing address, faces charges on four felony counts of third-degree assault, according to court records. He also faces misdemeanor charges including five counts of reckless endangerment and misconduct involving a weapon.
  Halsey is scheduled in cour
  
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• Kodiak mayor seeks answers to police body-cam policy change

  10-08-2016 00:56 via ktoo.org
  The move by Kodiak Police Department to discontinue the use of video cameras attached to officers’ uniforms was a surprise to Kodiak Mayor Pat Branson and the city council.
  The discontinuance of using body cameras was confirmed in an e-mail from Police Chief Ronda Wallace.
  “Well, it’s an administrative and police policy,” said Branson, who was out of state last week. “The council doesn’t get into that. And we are being presented with that i
  
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• Ketchikan School Board to discuss goals, vote on resignation

  10-08-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The Ketchikan School Board will vote on board president Michelle O’Brien’s resignation and discuss goals at its meeting Wednesday. Among the action items Wednesday’s agenda is a motion to buy $80,000 worth of Chromebook laptops to replace Apple laptops used by students at Schoenbar Middle School, pictured. (KRBD file photo)
  In its last meeting before the start of the 2016-2017 school year, the Ketchikan School Board will discuss goals on Wednesday, and will vote on the resignat
  
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