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• Lagoudakis to run for Petersburg mayor

  03-08-2017 23:50 via ktoo.org
  Mayor Cindi Lagoudakis cuts the ribbon July 4, 2017, on the renovated municipal building. (KFSK file photo)
  Petersburg borough Mayor Cindi Lagoudakis has decided to try and continue on in that role beyond October.
  Lagoudakis has filed her paperwork with the borough to run for the mayoral seat in the October 3 election.
  As vice mayor she took over the mayor’s role in May following the resignation of Mark Jensen. Like Jensen last year, Lagoudakis said it was not an easy decision to run for m
  
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• Newscast – Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017

  03-08-2017 23:09 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/20170803newscast.mp3In this newscast:
  The Juneau park under construction around the life-sized bronze whale sculpture gets named after the late Mayor Bill Overstreet,
  U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke makes up with Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski after she bucked the Republican party with her no vote on the health care bill, and
  a new police training facility nears completion in Birchwood.
  
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• Forest Service could delay Wrangell contaminated soil move

  03-08-2017 22:08 via ktoo.org
  A backhoe digs up part of the old Byford Junkyard in Wrangell in 2014. After removing old cars, oil drums and other trash, the state is treating and moving contaminated soil to a rock quarry south of town. (Photo courtesy Department of Environmental Conservation)
  The U.S. Forest Service could put the brakes on a state plan to store contaminated soil near a Wrangell recreation area.
  The Department of Environmental Conservation plans to truck almost 20,000 cubic yards of lead-laced soil to a rock
  
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• Kodiak artist transforms junk metal into tentacled bracelets, nautical pendants

  03-08-2017 22:00 via ktoo.org
  Design by Nannette Foster. (Photo courtesy of Nannette Foster)
  On the First Friday Art Walk this week, the Alutiiq Museum will feature a local artist who uses the Kodiak environment as inspiration for crafting jewelry.
  One of Nannette Foster’s most recent items is an octopus pendant hanging from a chain and clinging onto green beach glass.
  Another is a cuff bracelet where tentacles appear to burst from distressed brass.
  Nannette Foster
  Both pieces are part of Foster’s Kodiak-themed B
  
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• Dillingham police arrest man allegedly dealing heroin from boat

  03-08-2017 19:53 via ktoo.org
  Police allege heroin was being trafficked from the Andy O, a Bristol Bay drifter tied up in the Dillingham Harbor. The vessel is pictured here Monday, after police boarded and arrested operator Andrew Olsen.
  (Photo by Avery Lill/KDLG)
  Dillingham police arrested a man Saturday night who was allegedly dealing heroin from a boat in the harbor.
  Andrew “Weebee” Olsen, 29, was charged with one count of felony drug possession and one count of felony drug trafficking.
  Police say they receive
  
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• Gray whale that swam up Kuskokwim could have been seeking food

  03-08-2017 19:42 via ktoo.org
  The gray whale killed in the Kuskokwim River on Thursday night may have been searching for new food sources, Oregon-based scientist Carrie Newell said. (Photo by Katie Basile/KYUK)
  Climate change may be responsible for pushing Alaska’s gray whales up into estuaries and rivers.
  Oregon-based whale biologist Dr. Carrie Newell said that gray whales spend six months of the year in Alaskan waters feeding.
  The whales dig into the muddy bottoms of the North Pacific, the Bering Sea, and the Arctic
  
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• Family friend of slain Alaska cruise ship passenger fundraises for victim’s daughters

  03-08-2017 04:53 via ktoo.org
  A family friend and neighbor of the Utah woman who was killed aboard a cruise ship off Alaska’s coast last week is raising money for her three daughters.
  Dana Nicholls said the family appeared happy, and that he’s trying to help the children with a GoFundMe campaign.
  His family lived across the street from the Manzanareses in Santa Clara, Utah. His six children, ages 12 to 22, grew up alongside Kenneth and Kristy Manzanares’ three daughters for a little more than eight years.
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• Juneau’s whale park named for Bill Overstreet

  03-08-2017 02:41 via ktoo.org
  Work continues on the Juneau’s Whale Park on May 16, 2017. (Photo by Jacob Resneck/KTOO)
  Juneau’s long-awaited whale park will be named Mayor Bill Overstreet Park. The former Juneau mayor passed away in 2013 at the age of 87.
  Jean Overstreet received an extended ovation at Monday’s Assembly meeting after the body voted unanimously to name the park in her husband’s honor.
  The former mayor and educator was a driving force behind the whale park committee, which has donated m
  
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• Following trooper loss, Haines looks at expanding police service

  03-08-2017 02:32 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The Haines Police service area does not include residents who live along the Haines Highway. (Photo by Abbey Collins/KHNS)
  Haines’ loss of state trooper may trigger a major change to the way local police service is funded and structured. The trooper loss might result in an expansion of Haines police jurisdiction – from just the townsite to borough-wide.http://khns.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/02PoliceServicewINTRO.mp3“I want to compel you that not doing something is not
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 8-3-17

  03-08-2017 02:00 via ktoo.org
  Thursday on A Juneau Afternoon, Joan Pardes hosts:Amanda Triplette will be here to highlight UAS classes and degree programs;We’ll talk with Lauren Anderson about activities at the Treadwell Ice Arena;Infection Preventativist Charlee Gribbon will be here to talk staying germ free;And Nancy DeCherney will be here with Arts Up!That, Writers Almanac, Bird Note, music and more,Thursday afternoon on A Juneau Afternoon, live at 3 on KTOO-NEWS, repeated at 4 on KRNN. And available on demand via
  
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• New judge, trial dates, same bail in van crash murder case

  03-08-2017 01:50 via ktoo.org
  Community members released sky lanterns July 4, 2016, following a fatal crash that led to the cancellation of Petersburg’s Independence Day celebration that year. (Photo by Orin Pierson/KFSK)
  Conditions of release have not changed for a man charged with murder in the July 4, 2016, van wreck in Petersburg. The judge in the case against him, however, has changed.
  The defendant requested the case be heard before a judge other than William Carey, and it was assigned to superior court judg
  
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