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• Homer resident saves kayaker’s life on Six-Mile Creek

  19-08-2017 22:00 via ktoo.org
  Homer resident Obadiah Jenkins was spending his 33rd birthday last weekend kayaking Six-Mile Creek in Hope at the 10th annual Whitewater and Bluegrass Festival.
  Kayakers hold a friendly race as part of the festivities.
  Obadiah Jenkins tries to help Daniel Hartung pull himself from Six-Mile Creek in Hope. (Photo courtesy James Bennett)
  Jenkins was taking a practice run through the class four rapids when a bystander filming the event, noticed another participant, Daniel&nb
  
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• Alaska class ferry Tazlina on track at Ketchikan shipyard

  19-08-2017 20:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Vigor Alaska Shipyard Development director Doug Ward talks with Marine Transportation advisory board member Greg Wakefield inside the not-quite-finished Alaska Class ferry Tazlina. (Photo by Leila Kheiry/KRBD)
  The Tazlina is the first of two new Alaska Class ferries that the Ketchikan Vigor Alaska shipyard is building for the state.
  Its two halves are complete and welded together, and shipyard workers are busy getting interior spaces done.https://krbd-org.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2017
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 8-21-17

  19-08-2017 19:57 via ktoo.org
  Monday on A Juneau Afternoon, Scott Burton hosts.
   
  Musician Melissa Carper will be here with a preview of her music. She’s playing in town this week;
  We’ll hear the 7th episode of the Midnight Oil podcast from
  Alaska’s Energy Desk – about the Trans Alaskan Oil Pipeline and how it shaped the state;
  And we’ll get a preview of Perseverance Theatre’s Young Company’s performances with Tom Robenalt.
   
  That, Writers Almanac, Bird Note, music and mor
  
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• Fall-winter-spring ferry bookings begin

  19-08-2017 04:07 via ktoo.org
  The ferry Matanuska is propped up, out of the water, during earlier maintenance at the Ketchikan Shipyard. It will be out of service this fall so it can get new engines and related equipment. (Photo by Heather Bryant/KTOO)
  The Alaska Marine Highway System has begun taking reservations for fall, winter and spring sailings.
  Spokeswoman Aurah Landau said the newly released ferry schedule covers travel from October through April.
  “The service schedule is nearly identical to last year. The same
  
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• Feds say Alaska ferry system violates family leave act

  19-08-2017 03:57 via ktoo.org
  Marine highway employees tie up the Fairweather in Sitka Aug. 6, 2012. A federal lawsuit alleges the marine highway violates family medical leave rules. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska News)
  The U.S. Department of Labor alleges the Alaska Marine Highway System violates federal leave laws.
  A civil suit filed in U.S. District Court alleges the ferry system miscalculates time off mandated by the Family and Medical Leave Act.
  State officials deny that claim.
  The act requires large employers to p
  
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• Oil company sues over Alaska’s beleaguered cash-for-credits program

  19-08-2017 03:43 via ktoo.org
  Cook Inlet oil platforms are visible from shore near Kenai, Alaska. Cook Inlet Energy and its parent company, Miller Energy Resources, have sued the state after emerging from bankruptcy. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
  An oil and gas company is suing the state over $5.3 million dollars in unpaid cash credits. Miller Energy Resources wants anything that happened before it went bankrupt in 2015 to be off-limits to state tax auditors, according to the lawsuit and the company&
  
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• Anchorage man beaten, bound and put in dog kennel, police searching for suspects

  19-08-2017 01:33 via ktoo.org
  APD police vehicles (Photo by Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media)
  Anchorage police are searching for five people involved in an assault and kidnapping in East Anchorage.
  Police say the suspects abducted and beat Abshir Mohammed, 24, on Sunday in a house on the 6500 block of Cimmaron Circle.
  They allegedly put him in a dog kennel, where he was discovered and driven to the hospital by a person who was not believed to be involved with the assault.
  On Friday, police released a statement saying Mo
  
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• Gardentalk – Harvest Fair and greenhouse management

  19-08-2017 01:11 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Judges debate criteria and potential awards for one entry during the 2015 Harvest Fair. (File photo by Matt Miller/KTOO)
  The 25th Annual Harvest Fair runs 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, August 19, at the Juneau Community Garden.
  In this week’s edition of Gardentalk, Master Gardener Ed Buyarski reminds us of some of the Harvest Fair’s events. You can see a schedule and check out the rules and categories by going to the the Juneau Community Garden Association newsletter below.Listen to the
  
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• Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority moves to clear Juneau homeless camp

  19-08-2017 00:52 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Campers gather near a small group of tents about noon Thursday, June 8, 2017, near the 300 block of Egan Drive in Juneau. (Photo by Tripp J Crouse/KTOO)
  Residents in a homeless encampment in Juneau are facing a new deadline to vacate a downtown property.
  The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority has notified the city that it wants its property cleared of trespassers in two weeks.
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/170818HOMELESS.mp3About a dozen campsites sprang up this summer at the
  
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• Public invited to Glacier Valley Fire Station open house, free rides on trucks

  19-08-2017 00:24 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The newest airport rescue firefighting vehicle at the Glacier Valley Fire Station carries 3,000 gallons of water, 400 gallons of foam and 500 pounds of dry chemical, which it can spray with two hose nozzles mounted on the front of the vehicle. (Photo by Matt Miller/KTOO)
  Here’s your chance to check out some of the coolest trucks in the fire department’s fleet.
  Capital City Fire/Rescue is holding an open house Saturday of their partially remodeled Glacier Valley Fire Station.
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