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• Newscast – Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017

  15-08-2017 22:35 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/20170815NEWSCAST.mp3In this newscast:
  The filing deadline closes for Juneau Assembly candidates and all three incumbents will be challenged,
  Alaska’s U.S. senators get an online earful after expressing disgust at the hate and racism out of Charlottesville,
  Ketchikan beaches get flagged for high levels of wastewater and sewage pathogen, and
  a tent camper in Sitka gets a rude awakening from a bear.
  
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• Village of Newtok finds rebirth at Mertarvik

  15-08-2017 22:06 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Over the last month and a half, a decade-long project to move the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta village of Newtok is finally beginning to take shape.
  The new village site held a ribbon in Mertarvik, which means “a place for water.”
  The new community is safely above the rising water, which threatens the village of Newtok.
  https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kyuk/audio/2017/08/170814_mertarvik_ribbon_cutting_web.mp3A small group of Newtok residents gathered high up on the bluffs at the new site of the vil
  
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• Seiner loses 70,000 pounds of pink salmon in Neva Strait grounding

  15-08-2017 21:18 via ktoo.org
  The seiner Confidence is high and dry on Highwater Island in Neva Strait Sunday, August 6. The 70,000-pound cargo of pink salmon spoiled, and were disposed of in federal waters offshore. (Photo by Maxwell K. Johnson/KCAW)
  A seiner lost an estimated 70,000 pounds of pink salmon when his boat ran aground on August 6 near Sitka.
  Although none of the fish were contaminated by fuel, the load had spoiled by the time the vessel was refloated.The Confidence was returning to Sitka via Neva Strait at abou
  
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• Can sea stars make a comeback in Kachemak Bay?

  15-08-2017 20:29 via ktoo.org
  
  
  A researcher examines an ochre star with whitened arms — a symptom of sea star wasting syndrome. So far, about 20 different species along the Pacific Coast appear to be vulnerable to the disease. (Photo courtesy Greg Davis)
  Sea star wasting syndrome, or disease as it has become known, hit Kachemak Bay hard in 2016, killing about 90 percent of sunflower and true star populations.
  Researchers eagerly waited for spring to roll around in hopes their numbers would rebound.
  As the days got
  
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• F/V Akutan’s sad, failed season in Bristol Bay

  15-08-2017 20:07 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The 180-foot Akutan anchored is anchored August 5, 2017, in the Nushagak Bay not far from the Dillingham dock. (Photo by Dave Bendinger/KDLG)
  Fiasco. Disaster. Nightmare.
  These are words used by those involved with the floating processor Akutan to describe a fishing season gone terribly wrong.
  The Akutan, owned by Klawock Oceanside, Inc., was supposed to custom process up to 100,000 pounds of Bristol Bay salmon a day for a small fleet of fishermen under the banner Bristol Bay Seafoods.
  Afte
  
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• Toksook Bay fire destroyes family’s belongings, kills 5-year-old

  15-08-2017 19:46 via ktoo.org
  A child is dead and a family’s belongings destroyed Saturday after a house fire in Toksook Bay.
  Six people lived in the home. All but one, Kendrick Julius, 5, were able to make it out of the building after the fire started sometime before midnight.
  City Administrator Paul Chimiugak provided the child’s identity; Kendrick was his nephew.
  The cause of the fire is still undetermined.
  Chimiugak said that there was a rush to respond to the blaze, with people stretching hoses to
  
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• Skagway resident sentenced to prison for tax charges is running for Assembly again

  15-08-2017 19:39 via ktoo.org
  A Skagway resident who was sentenced to a year in prison on federal tax charges has filed to run for borough Assembly.
  Dan Henry (Photo courtesy The Skagway News)
  Dan Henry resigned from the Assembly last fall in order to report to federal prison. Henry was convicted of willful failure to file income taxes. Now, he is back in Skagway and running for election again.
  Henry is the only Assembly candidate to file by Monday’s 5 p.m. deadline. There are two Assembly seats opening this October. T
  
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• North Korea says it won’t fire missiles at Guam after all

  15-08-2017 19:32 via ktoo.org
  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reviewed his military’s plans to rain “an enveloping fire” around the U.S. territory of Guam — but opted not to fire missiles at this time, according to state media. Despite the stand-down, some Guamanians were alarmed after two radio stations aired an erroneous emergency alert Tuesday.
  Kim visited the Korean People’s Army as the self-imposed mid-August deadline for a missile demonstration approached, the Korean Central News Agency re
  
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• ADN declares bankruptcy, announces new owners

  15-08-2017 10:13 via ktoo.org
  The sidewalk near the corner of Front and Seward streets has one of the few Alaska Dispatch News vending machines in Juneau. (Photo by Jeremy Hsieh/KTOO)
  The state’s largest newspaper is filing for bankruptcy protection, and may soon have new owners. The Alaska Dispatch News announced a deal this weekend that could turn the paper over to a publishing group made up of lifelong Alaskans.
  In an article on its front page Sunday, the Dispatch reported its owner, Alice Rogoff, is stepping down,
  
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• Challengers file for three Juneau Assembly seats

  15-08-2017 10:06 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Carole Triem updates her voter registration with Deputy City Clerk Beth McEwen as she files her candidacy paperwork for a seat on the Juneau Assembly on Monday in Juneau. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
  The three Juneau Assembly incumbents whose terms expire this year are seeking re-election and each race will be contested. Election day is Tuesday, Oct. 3.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/170815ELECTION.mp3An iPhone alarm in the city clerk’s office signa
  
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• After WWII internment apology, a new generation of Aleuts seek out history

  15-08-2017 04:30 via ktoo.org
  A memorial overlooks downtown Unalaska. It’s dedicated to the Unangax who were forcibly evacuated during World War II and the Aleutian villages that were never resettled. (Photo by Laura Kraegel/KUCB)
  Before a small crowd at the St. George community center, Wes Kuhns said the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was ready to take responsibility for its actions.
  “I’m here to deliver a long overdue apology for the tragedies that befell the Aleut people on our watch,” said Kuhns,
  
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• Sen. Sullivan calls out neo-Nazis and critics abound

  15-08-2017 03:50 via ktoo.org
  Television crews roll with a memorial to Heather Heyer as a backdrop in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 14, 2017. Heyer was killed counterprotesting a white nationalist rally. (Creative Commons photo by Bob Mical)
  After violence broke out in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend, both of Alaska’s U.S. senators condemned the violent “Unite the Right” demonstrations.
  Sen. Dan Sullivan issued a strongly worded statement that singled out the alt-right and their allies
  
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• Three candidates to run for two Juneau School Board seats

  15-08-2017 03:24 via ktoo.org
  Who is going to decide class sizes and how much money your kids have for activities? You’ll decide in Juneau’s Oct. 3 municipal election.
  Two seats are open on the seven-member Juneau School Board. Three candidates had filed to run today by the 4:30 p.m. cutoff. The board president, Brian Holst is running for re-election according to the City and Borough of Juneau, and Jeff Short and Kevin Allen have their eyes on the two seats.
  Sean O’Brien, a school board member who has
  
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• Federal government stalling construction of new Alaska ferry

  15-08-2017 03:15 via ktoo.org
  Vigor Alaska crew confer before moving the forward half of the Alaska Class Ferry Tazlina out of the assembly hall at the Ketchikan shipyard in 2016. (Photo by Leila Kheiry/KRBD)
  The design and funding for a new Alaska ferry are ready to go, but the federal government is not.The Juneau Empire reports Alaska Department of Transportation Commissioner Marc Luiken Friday warned members of the state Marine Transportation Advisory Board that an effort to build a new oceangoing ferry may run into troub
  
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• Kasilof man charged with making false 911 calls to divert pursuit

  15-08-2017 03:13 via ktoo.org
  Alaska State Troopers say a 23-year-old Kenai Peninsula man made fake 911 calls to divert officers as they pursued and tried to arrest him.Clayton Nelson of Kasilof is charged with felony eluding, reckless driving, assault and terroristic threatening. He’s also charged with driving with a revoked license and violating conditions of his release.
  Troopers say they spotted Nelson on Saturday afternoon and tried to conduct a traffic stop on his pickup for an outstanding felony warrant from an
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 8-14-17

  15-08-2017 02:40 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/JuneauPM-8-14-17.mp3Monday on A Juneau Afternoon, Laury Scandling hosts.
  We’ll hear the third episode of the Midnight Oil podcast from Alaska’s Energy Desk – about the Trans Alaska Pipeline and how it shaped the state.
  And we’ll talk with the King of Alaskan Seafood.
   
   
   
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 8-15-17

  15-08-2017 02:00 via ktoo.org
  Tuesday on A Juneau Afternoon, Laury Scandling hosts.
  We’ll get the details about an overnight Writing Workshop;
  Hear Part 6 of Midnight Oil, which traces the effect of the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline on out state;
  Steve Kocsis will be here with yet more information about the coming eclipse;
   
  At 4, tune in to KTOO for All Things Considered, followed at 6, it’s Alaska News Nightly.
   
  At 9, Democracy Now; news from a Canadian perspective follows at 10 on As It Happens, and BB
  
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• Update: Seaplane passenger recounts emergency water landing in Juneau area

  15-08-2017 01:13 via ktoo.org
  An Alaska Seaplanes aircraft makes its way to Juneau in June 2017. (Photo by Abbey Collins/KHNS)
  A plane on its way from Skagway to Juneau made an emergency water landing Monday morning. Everyone on board the aircraft swam safely to shore.
  Haines resident Luck Dunbar was one of them.
  “Well there you are, you’re sitting there thinking ‘This is it.  This is it. Here we go,’” Luck Dunbar recounted.
  Dunbar boarded the Alaska Seaplanes flight around 5:30 a.m. Monday
  
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• Commuter flight makes emergency water landing in Juneau area, occupants unharmed

  15-08-2017 01:13 via ktoo.org
  An Alaska Seaplanes aircraft makes its way to Juneau in June 2017. (Photo by Abbey Collins/KHNS)
  Four passengers and a pilot are unharmed after an Alaska Seaplanes aircraft made an emergency landing in the water in the Juneau area this morning.
  The flight originated in Haines around 5:30 a.m. It made a routine stop in Skagway to pick up additional passengers before continuing on to Juneau.
  Just outside Juneau, the pilot declared an emergency following an engine failure. That’s according to
  
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• Longtime Juneau painter Herb Bonnett dies at 87

  15-08-2017 01:01 via ktoo.org
  Longtime Juneau resident and painter Herb Bonnett attends the Juneau Pioneer Home’s senior prom on June 22, 2017. He died Monday, Aug. 14, 2017. (Photo by Philip Loseby/Juneau Pioneer Home)
  Longtime Juneau resident and painter Herb Bonnett died this morning at the age of 87.
  Bonnett’s paintings of boats, planes and iconic local landmarks are all over Juneau, including a very large painting on the back wall of the Juneau Assembly’s chambers at City Hall.
  Daughter Michelle Bonnet
  
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