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• How oyster milkshakes and teamwork are getting Alaska’s shellfish safely to market

  18-08-2017 22:39 via ktoo.org
  A lab technician blends up oysters for testing at the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation lab in Anchorage. (Photo by Henry Leasia/Alaska Public Media)
  Places like Washington state have a long history of commercial oyster farming, and that means a long record of testing for deadly shellfish toxins. Alaska’s industry, by comparison, is relatively new. But that hasn’t stopped a growing number of people from becoming interested in cultivating oysters.
  Alaskans are working to
  
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• Newscast – Friday, August 18, 2017

  18-08-2017 22:38 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/170818_newscast.mp3In this newscast:
  Residents of downtown Juneau tent encampment face eviction
  Togiak child accidentally fatally shoots another child
  Capital City Fire/Rescue to offer rides on new airport truck during open house
   
  
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• Mental Health Trust leaders resign while organization undergoes special audit

  18-08-2017 20:41 via ktoo.org
  The Trust Authority Building in Anchorage houses their main offices. (Photo by Anne Hillman/Alaska Public Media)
  In the past month, the top three leaders at the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority have submitted letters of resignation.
  The shake up comes at a time when the organization, which manages funds for mental health and substance abuse programming across the state, is undergoing a special legislative audit over concerns about financial mismanagement.
  Interim CEO Greg Jones was appo
  
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• Alaska senators fault Trump’s tack on racist rally

  18-08-2017 20:25 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Alaska Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, pictured here at the 2015 Alaska Federation of Natives Convention, issued a second round of statements following white nationalist rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Photo by Mikko Wilson/KTOO)
  Alaska’s U.S. senators have issued a second round of statements following the rally of white nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia.
  This time their criticisms are aimed at President Donald Trump.http://media.aprn.org/2017/ann-20170817-01.mp3
  
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• Solar eclipse has stargazers excited all over the U.S.

  18-08-2017 20:11 via ktoo.org
  
  
  On Nov. 13, 2012, a narrow corridor in the southern hemisphere experienced a total solar eclipse.  The corridor lay mostly over the ocean but also cut across the northern tip of Australia where both professional and amateur astronomers gathered to watch. (Photos courtesy of Romeo Durscher/NASA)
  States across the lower 48 will get to see a full solar eclipse Monday, August 21, as the moon slides directly in front of the sun for roughly two minutes.
  People from all over the world are flo
  
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• STEM program guides kodiak student from middle school to college

  18-08-2017 19:39 via ktoo.org
  A science, technology, engineering, and math program geared towards Alaska Native students has guided one Kodiak local through both middle school and high school. And now, he’s off to college.http://kmxt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/College-Kid-Desroches-Aug-18.mp3The Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program, or ANSEP, encourage its students to enter STEM careers.
  Kris Hill-McLaughlin and 26 other recent high school graduates participated this summer in Alaska Native Science and Eng
  
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• Steve Bannon out as chief White House strategist

  18-08-2017 19:27 via ktoo.org
  Updated at 1:15 pm ET
  Steve Bannon has lost his job as chief White House strategist.
  The White House described the departure as a mutual agreement between Bannon and chief of staff John Kelly.
  “We are grateful for his service and wish him the best,” said press secretary Sarah Sanders.
  Bannon has been a larger-than-life character in Trumpworld: a right-wing provocateur whose rumpled wardrobe and radical politics belied his background at Goldman Sachs and Harvard Business School. (Bann
  
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• Federal grand jury indicts husband on murder charges in cruise ship death

  18-08-2017 04:11 via ktoo.org
  The Emerald Princess is moored at the S. Franklin Street Dock in Juneau on July 27. (Photo by Tripp J Crouse/KTOO)
  On Thursday, a federal grand jury indicted the husband of a woman found dead aboard a cruise ship last month in her murder.
  Kenneth Manzanares, 39, is charged with one count of first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Kristy Manzanares, also 39, aboard the Emerald Princess cruise ship in Southeast Alaska.
  Kristy Manzanares was found dead aboard the ship last month after what th
  
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• Feds move forward with review of Hilcorp’s Arctic drilling plans

  18-08-2017 03:48 via ktoo.org
  Hilcorp’s design plans for the gravel island it aims to build in federal waters in the Beaufort Sea, as submitted to federal regulators in 2015. (Image courtesy BOEM)
  The federal government is moving forward with its review of Hilcorp’s proposal to drill offshore for oil in the Arctic.
  Called the Liberty Project, it would be the first oil production platform in federal Arctic waters. Hilcorp wants to build an artificial gravel island in the Beaufort Sea, five miles off the coast in s
  
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• There’s a new Arctic drilling battle brewing…and it’s not in ANWR

  18-08-2017 03:33 via ktoo.org
  The National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska encompasses important habitat for migratory birds. The vast region is also increasingly promising for oil development. (Photo by Bob Wick, courtesy BLM)
  The National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) is a region in the Arctic bigger than many U.S. states. But it’s flown under the radar for years, unlike a different chunk of federal land located just to the east: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
  That’s likely to change. A series of promi
  
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• Nearly half of structures on dock affected by fire, says processing plant fire witness

  18-08-2017 02:41 via ktoo.org
  The Peter Pan Seafoods processing plant in Port Moller, which suffered heavy damage during a fire that continued to burn into Wednesday, Aug. 16. (Photo courtesy of Peter Pan Seafoods)
  Details are emerging slowly on the fire at the Peter Pan Seafoods processing plant in Port Moller.
  The 100-year-old plant caught fire late Tuesday night, and the blaze continued to burn Wednesday.
  The full scope of the damage is still unclear, but witnesses say it is extensive.
  “The main processing faci
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 8-18-17

  18-08-2017 02:00 via ktoo.org
  Friday at 3 on a Juneau Afternoon,
  We’ll find out about the Downtown Business Association’s Neighbors Day at Capital Park;
  Peggy Ann McConnochie will be here with news about this year’s Rotary Bulbs;
  Brad Orr and Chris Mertl will be here to highlight the Mendenhall Master Plan
  We’ll learn about a class for educators: Alaska Agriculture in the Classroom, with Melissa Sikes.
  That, Writer’s Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, live at 3 on KTOO, repeated at 4 on KRNN, a
  
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