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• Campers embrace culture at Unalaska’s Camp Adguyax

  17-08-2017 23:47 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Students perform an Unangan folk tale on their last day of Camp Adguyax. (Photo by Berett Wilber/KUCB)
  Campers huddle in the hallway of the Burma Road Chapel dressed as sea otter hunters.
  The kids adjust their bentwood visors as community members file into rows of folding chairs.
  “Am I missing any whiskers?” one girl asks.
  “One of them broke,” says the boy next to her.https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kucb2/audio/2017/08/15ADGUYAX_0.mp3With costumes complete, they’re ready to
  
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• Newscast – Thursday, August 17, 2017

  17-08-2017 23:16 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/newscast1.mp3In this newscast:
  Police are looking for a 28-year-old Juneau woman, Alexis Ashley Ehlers, who vanished on Aug. 13;
  U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is criticizing President Trump for his comments following the neo-Nazi march on Charlottesville;
  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says hundreds of Pacific walruses have begun coming ashore along Alaska’s northwest coast; and
  Alaska Gov. Bill Walker sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jef
  
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• NTSB conducting sweeping probe of Alaska’s plane crashes

  17-08-2017 22:28 via ktoo.org
  
  
  (Creative Commons photo by Matt’ Johnson)
  The National Transportation Safety Board is looking into the safety of Alaska skies during a hearing will take all today.
  https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kyuk/audio/2017/08/170817_ntsb_setup_voicer.mp3Ravn Air’s crash outside of Togiak last October is at the center of the hearing being held in Anchorage.
  The NTSB’s investigation goes much further than the accident on the flight from Quinhagak to Togiak, which crashed into Caribou Ridge on Octobe
  
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• Sun’aq Tribe wins grant to study invasive species and effect on subsistence resources

  17-08-2017 22:13 via ktoo.org
  Signal crayfish are not native to Alaska. Discovered in the Buskin River in 2001, the population is now well established and breeding. (Photo courtesy Lisa Hupp/USFWS)
  The Sun’aq Tribe won a grant to study the kind of threat that  invasive crayfish in Alaska pose to subsistence resources. The award was announced Tuesday.
  Tribal biologist Kelly Krueger saod Sun’aq applied for a Tribal Wildlife grant through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service about a year ago.Now, the group w
  
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• Haines Assembly members survive divisive recall election

  17-08-2017 21:36 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Tresham Gregg, Heather Lende and Tom Morphet take part in a public forum about the recall election. No recall proponents agreed to participate. (Photo by Abbey Collins/KHNS)
  After a contentious recall vote Tuesday, three embattled Haines Borough Assembly members will continue to serve out their terms.
  Nearly 60 percent of Haines voters rejected the allegations of official misconduct.http://media.aprn.org/2017/ann-20170816-03.mp3As Haines residents filtered into the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall
  
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• Juneau woman reported missing after minor crash

  17-08-2017 21:11 via ktoo.org
  Juneau police are looking for a 28-year-old woman who vanished August 13.
  Alexis Ashley Ehlers in an undated photo circulated by the Juneau Police Department on August 17, 2017. (Photo courtesy of Juneau Police Department)
  Juneau Police Lt. Kris Sell said that Alexis Ashley Ehlers of Juneau hasn’t been heard from since being involved in a minor fender-bender.
  “Ehlers has been distraught over personal issues and walked away from a very minor vehicle collision prior to the arrival of r
  
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• Juneau chef crowned King of Seafood at Great American Seafood Cook-Off

  17-08-2017 20:57 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Chef Lionel Uddipa stands inside the downtown restaurant Salt in Juneau on Aug. 10, 2017. His winning dish of Bristol Bay king crab with risotto took first place at the Great American Seafood Cook-Off  in New Orleans. (Photo by Annie Bartholomew/KTOO)
  This month Juneau chefs Lionel Udippa and Jacob Pickard represented Alaska at the Great American Seafood Cook-Off in New Orleans.
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/16CHEF.mp3In a hotel room in New Orleans ahead of a national seafo
  
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• Juneau Assembly candidate files on Monday, drops out on Wednesday

  17-08-2017 04:52 via ktoo.org
  Carole Triem chats with Deputy City Clerk Beth McEwen as she files her candidacy paperwork for a seat on the Juneau Assembly on Monday. Two days later, she says she’s dropping out. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
  It’s still early days in the municipal campaign season, but one candidate has already quit the race.
  Political newcomer Carole Triem wrote to her supporters Wednesday to say she won’t be running for a seat on the Juneau Assembly after all:
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• Why Amazon collects local sales taxes in other states — but not Alaska

  17-08-2017 04:41 via ktoo.org
  (Creative Commons photo by Adrienne Hoffman)
  If you live anywhere in the country with a sales tax, the online retailer Amazon collects it – except in Alaska. Alaska is unique because it’s the only state with local sales taxes but no statewide tax.
  Some in Alaska want to see changes that would affect Amazon and other online sellers.
  Lisa Ryals owns Lisa Davidson’s Boutique, a women’s clothing store in downtown Juneau. She said as a Juneau resident, she’s disappointed
  
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• As sea ice recedes, walruses gather near Point Lay earlier than ever

  17-08-2017 04:36 via ktoo.org
  A curious Pacific Walrus calf checks out the photographer in 2004. (Photo by Joel Garlich-Miller, USFWS)
  Several hundred Pacific walrus are hauled out on a barrier island near the village of Point Lay, on the Chukchi Sea coast.It’s the earliest such haul out since the walrus first started showing up in 2007 — and may be linked to this year’s rapidly retreating Arctic sea ice.Andrea Madeiros is a spokesperson with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. She said during this time of
  
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• 100-plus Sitkans attend candlelight vigil for Charlottesville

  17-08-2017 02:54 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Raised in Charlottesville, Elizabeth Herendeen talked about how the violent clash beween “Unite the Right” marchers and counter-protestors has affected her hometown. (Photo by Emily Kwong/KCAW)
  President Donald Trump said the white nationalists who marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, weren’t solely to blame for the violence there.
  As he did this weekend, Trump suggested the left-wing counter-demonstrators also were culpable.http://media.aprn.org/2017/ann-20170815-01.mp3
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• With F-35 squads set for Eielson, thousands of people may come up with them

  17-08-2017 02:39 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The economic benefits that will come with two squadrons of F-35s scheduled to be based at Eielson beginning in 2021 are now expected to draw more than 5,000 people to the area, a consultant said Monday. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Alex Fox Echols III/Released)
  More than 5,000 people may come to the Fairbanks area over the next four years as part of the move to base two squadrons of F-35 fighters at Eielson Air Force Base.
  The latest estimate announced Monday is well above the previous es
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 8-16-17

  17-08-2017 02:19 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Wednesday at 3 on A Juneau Afternoon,
  Sheli DeLaney will host.
  Author Mark Lautman will be here with a preview of his Chamber Luncheon Thursday talk on Achieving Nimbility;
  Nancy Barnes will be here to highlight this week’s fundraiser for Senator Albert Kookhesh;
  We’ll talk with Harrison B about the Summer Shakedown concert this weekend at Pier 49;
  And we’ll get the details on City Museum’s upcoming Day of Play.
  That, Writer’s Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, Wed
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 8-17-17

  17-08-2017 02:00 via ktoo.org
  Thursday at 3 on a Juneau Afternoon, Joan Pardes will host.
   
  We’ll talk with Nate Bodenstadt about the first-year experience at UAS;
  We’ll learn about this Saturday’s Community Garden’s Harvest Fair;
  We’ll talk about Dankrupt’s Summer Shakedown concert this weekend at Pier 49;
  Ruth Johnson, from Cancer Connection, will be here to highlight this Saturday’s Beat the Odds event.
   
  And Nancy DeCherney will be here with Arts Up.
   
  That, Write
  
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• Diving for answers: Will blue king crab come back in the Pribilofs?

  17-08-2017 01:52 via ktoo.org
  Jared Weems dives near St. Paul Island. His two-year research project is focused on the overfished blue king crab population around the Pribilof Islands. (Photo courtesy Jared Weems).
  In the Pribilof Islands, no one’s gotten an accurate count of blue king crab since the population crashed hard in the 1980s. This summer, a marine biologist is trying to change that, with the species’ first in-depth study in more than 30 years. His ultimate goal: Determine if blue crab can mak
  
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