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• ‘The Stars We Are’ singing competition to hold open auditions in Anchorage

  19-10-2016 23:54
  
  Calling all Alaskan singers — here’s your chance to be seen and heard on stage!
  The first-ever “Stars We Are” singing competition will hold open auditions on Saturday, Oct. 22 at Williwaw in Downtown Anchorage from 1 to 4 p.m. (All performers must be 18 or older to participate in the contest.)
  The contest will last for seven weeks with competitions taking place at Williwaw every Thursday from Nov. 3 through Dec. 15., excluding Thanksgiving. Contestants will be judged
  
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• Recipe Box: Family Pizza Night

  19-10-2016 23:23
  
  Pizza night is sometimes a go-to for busy parents, and for good reason! It’s quick, easy and there’s really no clean-up involved.
  But if it’s becoming more of a daily routine, it could be argued that quality is being compromised for convenience.
  In this week’s Recipe Box, Amanda Cash, Anchorage mom and owner of The Magpie food truck, revamps the sacred pizza night tradition into a fun family affair.
  Cash says the best part about ditching delivery is the ability to make am
  
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• Poll workers are hoping for calm but preparing for the worst

  19-10-2016 23:00 via ktoo.org
  
  At a hearing last month on the possible hacking of voting machines, Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler said he was more worried about something else. The real threat on Election Day, said Schedler, is violence at the polls.
  Poll workers across the country are on high alert after the recent firebombing of a Republican Party headquarters in North Carolina and reports that two armed men lingered for hours outside a Democratic campaign office in Virginia. Some feel that Donald Trump’s c
  
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• Workforce Wednesday: Becoming an ultrasound technician

  19-10-2016 21:55
  
  Looking for a career in the health industry? Do you love working with technology? If you answered yes, then becoming an ultrasound technician might be your match.
  The University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) ultrasound program takes about two years to complete. According to the Ryan Parnell, Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program Director at UAA, the pay is “excellent.”
  Students who graduate could be making around $60,000 a year to start.
  The post Workforce Wednesday: Becoming a
  
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• Alaska’s largest Native organization endorses Clinton for president

  19-10-2016 21:54 via ktoo.org
  
  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaking with supporters at a “Get Out the Caucus” rally at Valley Southwoods Freshman High School in West Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 24, 2016. (Creative Commons photo by Gage Skidmore)
  For the first time in its 50-year history, the Alaska Federation of Natives has endorsed a candidate for president — Hillary Clinton.
  The organization laid out the contrast between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in its news release:
  “With only 2
  
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• Group working to bring remains of 15 Alaska Natives home from Pennsylvania

  19-10-2016 21:48 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/10/18carlislepkg.mp3Henry Phillips, originally “Ka-Ka-Ish,” was 12 years old in 1887 when he arrived at the Carlisle Industrial Indian School in Pennsylvania. His student file says he arrived from the Presbyterian Mission in Sitka, though both of his parents were still living. He returned to Skagway to work as a printer at the Daily Alaskan newspaper. (Public Domain image from National Archives and Records Administration)
  The remains 
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 10-19-16

  19-10-2016 21:13 via ktoo.org
  
  Wednesday at 3 on A Juneau Afternoon,
  We’ll find out about Saturday Morning at the Movies fundraiser for the Juneau Co-Op Pre-School;
  Bill Merk will be here with details about the upcoming Grand Poetry Slam;
  We’ll get a preview of this weekend’s Juneau World Affairs Council Forum on Human Migration and Refugees;
  And we’ll talk about Emmanual Jal and his upcoming presentation.
  That, Writer’s Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, today on A Juneau Afternoon, l
  
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• Principal apologizes for school phone message on marijuana

  19-10-2016 21:00 via ktoo.org
  
  ANCHORAGE — The principal of an Anchorage elementary school has apologized after the school sent a message urging action against proposed marijuana businesses.
  The information sent through the school’s automated phone message system urged parents to attend an Anchorage Assembly meeting Tuesday.
  The message called for parents to testify against cannabis businesses applying to open near Campbell Elementary School.
  Alaska voters in 2014 approved legalizing the recreational use of mariju
  
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• New rules would require airlines to refund baggage fees for delayed luggage

  19-10-2016 21:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Many travelers have resigned themselves to paying $25 or more to check a bag when flying. But that fee becomes especially onerous when the bag doesn’t show up on the carousel at baggage claim.
  The White House is proposing a new rule that would require airlines to refund the checked baggage fee if luggage is “substantially delayed,” though it does not define “substantially.”
  NPR aviation reporter David Schaper says airlines are already required to compensate passenge
  
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• The Hungry Chum: Fresh new flavors meet old school soul at City Diner

  19-10-2016 20:28
  
  A three-part harmony, a good burger and a cold milkshake are part of what made America great. Not so common anymore, diners call us back to a time of bobby socks, a good jukebox and leather-topped stools where one could belly up for some grub.
  My grandfather used to tell me that as a bachelor, he would go to a diner every Thanksgiving to get a turkey dinner. The image has had a Norman Rockwell-esque staying power in my mind since I was small.That, along with a hangover, drew me to City Diner in
  
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• Trash proving costly to burn at Dillingham landfill

  19-10-2016 20:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Dillingham began operating this incinerator in the spring of 2015. A year of data shows it’s been costlier than anticipated. (Photo by KDLG)
  The incinerator at the Dillingham landfill has been clean-burning trash for a little over a year now.
  While it’s doing a good job of cutting down the volume of material that gets buried in limited cell space, it’s not proving as cost efficient to operate as hoped.
  The Pennram incinerator needs diesel fuel to operate, mainly to get up to te
  
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• New details emerge in Homer homicide case

  19-10-2016 20:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
  More details are emerging in a three-year-old homicide case that lead to charges against a 55-year-old Homer man.
  Homer police arrested Lee John Henry, 55, of Homer on Oct. 16 in the 2013 death of Mark Matthews. He was taken into custody at an address on Pioneer Avenue, near the Grog Shop.http://cpa.ds.npr.org/kbbi/audio/2016/10/161018_homermurder_pkg.mp3Because it was an active investigation, Homer police have released only limited information about the case until recently.
  
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• Dillingham police search for man wanted on theft, forgery warrants

  19-10-2016 19:31 via ktoo.org
  
  Dillingham police are asking the public for help in locating Michael Kohler, 28, who is wanted on numerous warrants, mainly for theft and forgery.
  DPD asking for the public’s help to find Michael Kohler, age 28, wanted in connection with numerous thefts. (Photo by Dillingham Police Department)
  Kohler was released from jail to Jake’s Place on Oct. 7 for drug abuse treatment, Dillingham Police Department said.
  On Oct. 12, during a field trip to the Alano Club, Kohler walked o
  
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• Researchers look for more evidence of dinosaurs in Denali

  19-10-2016 19:17
  
  Researchers say the discovery of dinosaur bones in Denali National Park for the first time this summer has opened the door for more remains to be found.
  The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports that paleontologists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the National Park Service uncovered the bones during a July expedition. The trip also turned up new dinosaur trackways, fossilized impressions the animals left by walking through mud that later hardened into stone.
  The researchers only found f
  
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• Marco Rubio warns GOP on WikiLeaks: ‘Tomorrow, it could be us’

  19-10-2016 19:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Live by the leak, and you may die by the leak.
  That’s the message Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is sending to his fellow Republicans, as he swears off using campaign material that originates with WikiLeaks.
  “Today it is the Democrats. Tomorrow, it could be us,” Rubio said in a statement.
  “I will not discuss any issue that has become public solely on the basis of WikiLeaks,” added Rubio, who is up for re-election. “As our intelligence agencies have said, these leak
  
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• Juneau police seeking tips in apparent shooting in Auke Bay

  19-10-2016 19:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Police are soliciting the public’s help investigating an apparent shooting last month in Juneau.
  According to a police news release, someone fired several shotgun rounds into a residence in the Auke Bay area the morning of Sept. 24. Two people were inside at the time. No one was injured.
  Police officers found several 12-gauge shotgun rounds that were shot into a residence in the 13000 block of Glacier Highway.
  A witness told police a person in a red&
  
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• Kodiak police seek new body cameras

  19-10-2016 18:12
  
  The Kodiak Police Department is looking to reinstate its use of body cameras, months after officers stopped wearing the devices because of concerns with equipment functionality.
  Officers wore body cameras from February through December 2015. Police Chief Ronda Wallace told The Kodiak Daily Mirror in an email Monday the department has been looking into other types of cameras following the program’s suspension and determined the Taser Axon Flex model would be the best fit.
  The department pre
  
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• Anchorage Assembly approves 3 more marijuana licenses

  19-10-2016 09:26
  
  At Tuesday’s Anchorage Assembly meeting, just two people spoke out against a midtown marijuana business that a Campbell Elementary School employee protested in a school message to parents on Monday.
  The employee, who has not be identified, sent out an audio message to all parents at the school, urging them to attend the meeting and oppose the business, Raspberry Roots. The Anchorage School District said the message was not approved by the principal of the school, and was not an approp
  
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• In Alaska, last year’s winter was warm, this one may be wet

  19-10-2016 07:39
  
  Winter ice floe on the Nushagak River. photo by Jason Sear
  After last year’s warmer winter and over 218 days of above average temperatures, western Alaska could be in store for above average precipitation this winter, says climate science expert Rick Thoman. At this point, Thoman says, odds slightly favor significantly above-normal snowfall.
  Last year’s warmer winter is partially a result of El Niño, a mass of warm water that bounces back from Australia and spreads along
  
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• AFL caps another season, now looking to expand

  19-10-2016 07:28
  
  The Alaska Football League just completed its season Sunday as the Greatland Packers dropped the Anchorage Cowboys for the title. Next season, they and the other four teams in the league may have company. The AFL is considering expanding.
  “We’re going to be talking to some people on the [Kenai] Peninsula at the end of this month, the end of October, about next season.” said Bob Lee, the AFL’s commissioner.
  The Valley is al
  
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• UAA’S fate hangs on the balance beam

  19-10-2016 07:23
  
  The balance beam is narrowing.
  As the University of Alaska Anchorage gymnastics team prepares for their season, an ominous questions looms: Will this team be here this time next year?
  Right now, no one knows the answer.
  What is known is that budget cuts are coming throughout the university and the athletic department will not be spared. Along with hockey and skiing, it’s been proposed that gymnastics be considered for elimination.
  It’s hav
  
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• Why your vote is worth more in Alaska than almost anywhere else in the nation

  19-10-2016 06:46
  
  Election day is just three weeks away, and if you’re thinking about sitting it out on Nov. 8, you may want to reconsider. A national report by Wallet Hub shows votes cast in Alaska are the third most powerful in the country.
  “We only have three electoral votes, but when you divide it by the population, we have more electoral votes per person than just about anywhere,” explained local pollster Ivan Moore, of Alaska Survey Research.
  Each Alaska vote holds weight in a race for the
  
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• Native rights attorneys brief tribal leaders on putting land into trust

  19-10-2016 06:42 via ktoo.org
  
  Placing lands into trust is a way for Alaska Native tribes to permanently protect them, but it’s not the only means of exercising control.
  That was the message during opening day discussions Monday at a Tribal Leaders Summit in Fairbanks. Washington, D.C., based Native American rights attorney, Lael Echo-Hawk said placing tribal lands into trust with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, an option that re-opened to Alaska tribes this summer following a lengthy court battle, carries definite advant
  
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• Man arrested for shooting of Fairbanks police officer

  19-10-2016 06:15 via ktoo.org
  
  A 29-year-old man has been arrested in the shooting of a Fairbanks police officer. Anthony George Jenkins-Alexie was taken into custody by Fairbanks police Tuesday morning in connection with the shooting of police Sgt. Allen Brandt.(Creative Commons photo by Dave Conner)
  Jenkins-Alexie has been charged with first degree attempted murder, first degree assault, vehicle theft and tampering with evidence.
  Fairbanks acting police chief Brad Johnson said the suspect has a “lengthy criminal
  
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• Really? Alaska in play in presidential race?

  19-10-2016 06:10 via ktoo.org
  
  The seal of the president of the United States of America hangs in the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum in Atlanta. Atlanta sculptor Charles Mitchell carved this mahogany presidential seal. (Creative Commons photo by Wally Gobetz)
  In the presidential race, Alaska has not voted for a Democrat since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. But national pundits say even red states like Alaska are in play now, as Republican Donald Trump’s path to victory is increasingly uncertain. One poll of Alaskans
  
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• Alaska Supreme Court hears first case testing Right to Farm Act

  19-10-2016 05:36 via ktoo.org
  
  A court case that pits farmers’ rights against neighbors’ rights has wafted its way up to the Alaska Supreme Court.
  (Creative Commons photo by Jack Berry)
  The court is hearing arguments Wednesday in a case between Robert Riddle, who hauls septic tank waste for a living that he stores and uses on Fairbanks-area farmland he owns, and Eric Lanser, a neighboring landowner and homebuilder.
  It’s the first case to test Alaska’s Right to Farm Act.
  While it sounds like a clas
  
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• NPR Battleground Map: Hillary Clinton Is Winning — And It’s Not Close

  19-10-2016 05:16 via ktoo.org
  
  Note: Maine and Nebraska award electoral votes by a mix of congressional district and popular vote, rather than winner-take-all. (Infographic by Alyson Hurt and Domenico Montanaro/NPR)
  Let’s make one thing clear: Three weeks out from this election, Hillary Clinton is winning — and it’s not close.
  Yes, people still have to vote, but if Democratic groups come out — and the Trump scorched-earth campaign is more like a white flag than an actual strategy — Hillary Clinto
  
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• 10-year-old inspires with Friday concerts in Ms. Harmon’s 5th grade class

  19-10-2016 05:14 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/10/filori_mixdown.mp3Kayla Harmon’s fifth grade class is just in from lunch-recess on a sunny Friday.
  With little prompting, the students move to the front of the classroom. Some sit in kid-size chairs and tables, others sit cross-legged on the ground or on pillows.
  Filori’s mini concerts have become a Friday routine after lunch recess. One student said it’s a nice way to transition back into the classroom. (Photo by Scott Burton/KTO
  
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• Alaska Zoo donates stuffed animals to kids at Providence

  19-10-2016 04:49
  
  The Alaska Zoo is bringing comfort to sick kids at the Children’s Hospital at Providence.
  On Tuesday, zoo staff members dropped off 60 polar bear and fox stuffed animals.
  Gift Shop Manager Sue Hedge said it was a project they saw at the Minnesota Zoo and decided to bring it to Anchorage.
  “We did this not knowing how it would work and it’s been a huge success,” Hedge said.
  For $10, people can “buy” a stuffed animal that actually gets donated to kids in need. Th
  
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• Government announces new steps to protect airline consumers

  19-10-2016 04:10
  
  The Transportation Department is proposing that airlines be required to refund fees when checked bags are substantially delayed.
  “Passengers should not be charged for services they do not receive. For example, if passengers are charged a fee by an airline for their checked baggage, they should expect to receive that baggage in a timely manner,” the Obama administration said in a statement about the proposal.
  Airlines in the U.S. have made more than $2 billion in baggage fee revenue&n
  
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• Final presidential debate is 5 p.m. Wednesday

  19-10-2016 04:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Hillary Clinton speaks at an event in Manchester, New Hampshire, Jan. 22, 2016, and Donald Trump speaks with supporters at a campaign rally at the South Point Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, Feb. 22, 2016. (Creative Commons photos by Gage Skidmore)
  KTOO is carrying live NPR coverage of Wednesday’s third and final presidential candidate debate. Coverage begins at 5 p.m.
  Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump are scheduled to debate for 90 minutes at the Univ
  
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• Squirmy sustainability: one man’s mission to fix a common problem

  19-10-2016 03:25 via ktoo.org
  
  Bob Deering at his home with his dog and compost bins. (Photo by Elizabeth Jenkins/KTOO)
  There’s nothing like taking a walk on Alaska’s pristine wilderness. Unless you step in something — unexpected along the way.For park goers, what dogs leave behind on the trail can be a sensitive topic. But one Juneau man has an unconventional solution he thinks could ease tensions and reduce waste, all at once.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/10/18WORMS.wavBob Deering has the Mid
  
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• Alaska veterans headed to Washington thanks to Last Frontier Honor Flight

  19-10-2016 03:13
  
  The annual Last Frontier Honor Flight took off from Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport Tuesday morning with 23 World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War veterans aboard. For many of them, it will be their first time seeing the monuments dedicated to their service.
  “People talked me into it,” joked Claude “Bud” File, who served in World War II.
  He went through basic training at Fort Richardson and was stationed on Adak Island for one year, but never saw combat.
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• Alaska veterans headed to Washington DC thanks to Last Frontier Honor Flight

  19-10-2016 03:13
  
  The annual Last Frontier Honor Flight took off from Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport Tuesday morning with 23 World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War veterans aboard. For many of them, it will be their first time seeing the monuments dedicated to their service.
  “People talked me into it,” joked Claude “Bud” File, who served in World War II.
  He went through basic training at Fort Richardson and was stationed on Adak Island for one year, but never saw combat.
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• Juneau police: Teen shooting victim still alive, no charges filed as investigation continues

  19-10-2016 02:45
  
  A 19-year-old woman who was shot in the head Friday is still alive and fighting for her life as Juneau police continue to investigate the circumstances leading up to the shooting.
  Juneau police said the woman’s injury was reported at 11:58 a.m. on Friday. Police and Capital City Fire and Rescue responded to the 3600 block of Amalga Street, where they found the victim inside a townhouse.
  “It was determined that she had been shot in the head, but she was still alive,” police
  
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• Sullivan plans Senate field hearing on ivory sales

  19-10-2016 02:30
  
  U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan is holding a field hearing this week focused on state laws that prohibit ivory sales.
  In a statement, Sullivan’s office says some of the bans extend to walrus and mammoth ivory used by Alaska Native artists. The release states that the hearing will focus on how the effects on Alaskans could be limited.
  Sullivan plans to hold the Senate subcommittee field hearing Thursday afternoon at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention in Fairbanks.
  Those scheduled to testify
  
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• Campbell Elementary apologizes for pushing anti-marijuana agenda

  19-10-2016 02:09
  
  
  Campbell Elementary School is in trouble for sending an automated phone message that Anchorage School District officials say should have never been released.
  ASD spokesperson Heidi Embley said the message went out Monday evening to the parents of every child at the school. In the message, a woman’s voice urges parents to attend the Tuesday night Anchorage Assembly meeting and speak out against a marijuana business hoping to open in the area.
  “It hits too close to home, it hits t
  
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• Police seek man charged in connection to 2015 homicide

  19-10-2016 01:53
  
  The scene of the November shootingBonney Bowman/KTVA The scene of the November shootingBonney Bowman/KTVA
  The Anchorage Police Department is asking for the public’s help in locating a man facing charges in connection to a 2015 death.
  Police said in a statement Tuesday that they are looking for 30-year-old Dominick Lozano. The charges against him include manslaughter, burglary and assault, according to police.
  Dominick Lozano. Courtesy Anchorage Police Department
  On the night of Nov. 23, 2
  
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• The state, Native corporations stake their positions as the push for indian country begins

  19-10-2016 00:49
  
  Tribal leaders gather in Fairbanks to gain a better understanding of the Federal Tribal Lands Trust process on Monday, October 17, 2016. At the center of the trust lands issue is the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Alaska Native corporations are divided by region as depicted in the map above.
  Credit Courtesy of www.ancsaregional.com
  This story originated from KYUK Public Media and was republished with permission.
  BETHEL — The idea of creating Indian Country in Alaska by putt
  
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