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• Can Alaska Native villagers in the YK Delta get a fair trial?

  16-08-2017 22:51 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The Alaska courthouse in Bethel. (Photo by Anna Rose MacArthur/KYUK)
  A new court case argues that the way in which state juries are selected in Alaska discriminates against rural, Native communities.
  The case could significantly impact the Delta’s court system if it’s successful.http://media.aprn.org/2017/ann-20170815-04.mp3This story started about five years ago outside of Kiana, when Teddy Smith swore he saw an enukin – one of the legendary little people.
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• Newscast – Wednesday, August 16, 2017

  16-08-2017 22:25 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/noon081617.mp3In this newscast:
  Peter Pan Seafoods processing plant in Port Moller devastated by fire,
  Zachary Whisenhunt of Fairbanks convicted of murder in the death of Janessa Kempski,
  Ferry Tustamena back in service, and
  Haines Borough Assembly recall election is unsuccessful.
  
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• Clark’s Point drawing families back to the village by reopening its school

  16-08-2017 21:51 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Clark’s Point kids practice a traditional dance at summer culture camp. On August 21, they will be students at the village school. (Photo by Avery Lill/KDLG)
  When a school closes in rural Alaska, families who stay face tough choices.
  They can send their children away to school in another village or city, or they can home school their kids.
  Clark’s Point fought for a third option, to reopen their school. The school, which closed in 2012, will be back in session next week.
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• Peter Pan Seafoods Port Moller plant devastated in overnight fire

  16-08-2017 21:07 via ktoo.org
  The Peter Pan Seafoods processing plant in Port Moller has been devastated by a massive fire that burned through the night and into Wednesday morning.
  No one has been reported injured, but power, running water and most phone and internet connections are down in remote community.
  “The fire started kind of in the production end of things, kind of the freezing warehouse at Peter Pan Seafoods last night. And consumed most of the production facilities that we can tell,” said Bob Murphy, t
  
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• Science and culture merge as one at summer camp on the Kwethluk

  16-08-2017 20:50 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Orutsaramiut Native Council partner fisheries biologist Janessa Esquible helps campers identify juvenile salmon. (Photo by Christine Trudeau/KYUK)
  Orutsararmiut Native Council held its first Science and Culture camp in July for high school students.
  Campers collected juvenile fish, like baby king and red salmon, and participated in activities in avian biology, ethnobotany and workshops on federal and state subsistence management.
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• A $60,000 travel bill is normal for high school football in Juneau

  16-08-2017 16:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The Crimson Bears practice at Adair-Kennedy Memorial Park on July 28. (Photo by Quinton Chandler/KTOO)http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/15Debt.mp3A Thunder Mountain High School parent might feel an especially powerful rush when their kid catches the game winning pass because that touchdown was expensive.
  Juneau’s high school football teams have to pay thousands of dollars to travel long distances for their games. After the Juneau School District stopped paying for high school
  
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• New JACC boosters back off hotel bed tax funding request

  16-08-2017 05:44 via ktoo.org
  This design rendering shows how the new Juneau Arts and Culture Center may appear from the Andrew P. Kashevaroff Building. (Courtesy Juneau Arts and Humanities Council)
  Arts boosters are no longer seeking an increase in the hotel bed tax to pay for a new and improved Juneau Arts and Culture Center.
  The heads of the board overseeing the project wrote the Juneau Assembly on Tuesday requesting the ordinance related to the tax increase be postponed indefinitely.
  Project coordinator Katharine Heumann
  
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• It’s time to go back to school in Juneau

  16-08-2017 05:41 via ktoo.org
  School buses line up to pick up students from school. (Photo by Heather Bryant/KTOO)
  Wednesday is the first day of school for about 4,700 students across Juneau.
  School District Superintendent Mark Miller said there isn’t any major new infrastructure or technology to talk up this year because of the budget crunch.
  “No!” he said. “We’re trying to hold it together and we spent the summer cleaning up and getting it as shiny as we can.”
  He reminds commuters to be
  
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• U.S., Canadian buoy tenders converge on Juneau for annual training, competition

  16-08-2017 02:19 via ktoo.org
  It’s the blue collar arm of the Coast Guard. The ones who get dirty and sweaty dragging chains across the deck and heating up steel with torches until it gets orange-hot.
  Eight buoy tenders and their crews from Alaska, British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest are in Juneau this week for the annual Buoy Tender Roundup.
  “It’s basically a week we can bring everybody together,” said Lt. Cmdr. Mike Newell, chief of the Coast Guard’s District 17 Waterways Branch. &ldqu
  
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• Southeast summer Dungeness harvest the worst in decades

  16-08-2017 01:44 via ktoo.org
  Dungeness crab. (Creative Commons Photo by Andy Clordia)
  The commercial harvest for Dungeness crab in Southeast Alaska this summer was the lowest in several decades. But it might not be a complete bust.
  The harvest numbers only tell part of the story.
  The summer season for Dungies closed three weeks early in Southeast.
  The thing is Dungeness crab in Southeast are tricky because state managers don’t know a lot about them.
  The crab are on a four-to-five-year life cycle and the commercial fis
  
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• Tularemia reported around Fairbanks, Palmer; vets urge quick diagnosis, treatment for pets

  16-08-2017 00:20 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Fish and Game experts say pet owners shouldn’t allow cats and dogs to eat hares, voles and other small mammals that could contract tularemia. Pets that show any symptoms of the disease should be examined and treated as soon as possible, the experts say. (KUAC file photo)
  The state Department of Fish and Game is warning pet owners in the Interior and Southcentral Alaska about a recent spike in reports of tularemia – sometimes called “rabbit fever.”
  The disease is treatable
  
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