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• Following Akiak’s lead, Tuluksak may also banish Cooper

  26-08-2017 21:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Akiak residents confront Jacques Cooper, a former VPO who multiple community members claim sold alcohol and marijuana illegally. The confrontation was live streamed on Facebook.(Photo courtesy Mike Williams)
  Two weeks ago, Jacques Cooper was banished from Akiak by the local Native tribe. Now, the Tuluksak tribe might banish him too.https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kyuk/audio/2017/08/170824_akiak_banishment_update_2_pkg.mp3Cooper, 43, moved to Akiak last year when his wife was hired as a special education
  
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• PFD supporters plan to make case to voters

  26-08-2017 03:41 via ktoo.org
  Sen. Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage, on the Senate Floor during debate about a bill he opposed that would reduce Permanent Fund dividends in March. Wielechowski said he doesn’t know whether he’ll run for governor, after the Alaska Supreme Court ruled against him on restoring PFD cuts. (Photo by Skip Gray/360 North)
  Current and former lawmakers who lost a court battle to reverse recent cuts to Permanent Fund dividends say they’ll continue to push lawmakers to make full PFDs part
  
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• Sitnasuak Native Corporation opens lawsuit against three directors

  26-08-2017 02:01 via ktoo.org
  Detail of the Sitnasuak Native Corporation building on Front Street in Nome. (File photo by David Dodman/KNOM)
  Sitnasauk Native Corporation announced August 16 that it has filed a lawsuit against three of its own directors.
  The complaint, filed in the Superior Court for the State of Alaska, alleges that Barbara Amarok, Edna Baker and Charles Fagerstrom violated their fiduciary duties of loyalty and care by distributing an anonymous mailer that “misinformed Sitnasuak shareholders and damage
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 8-28-17

  26-08-2017 02:00 via ktoo.org
  Monday at 3 on A Juneau Afternoon, Scott Burton will host.
  Dan Namur will be here to highlight Fisheries grants;
  Anastasia Tarmann and Leah Geibel, from the Alaska State Historical Library, will be here with details about Alaska newspapers available on line;
  Amy Skilbred, from the Juneau Community Foundation, will fill us in on the School Breakfast Program;
  And Eileen Hosey will be here to talk about an upcoming Tai Chi class for Seniors.
  That, Writers Almanac, Bird Note, Music & more, live
  
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• Responders have mitigated pollution threat of F/V Akutan, Coast Guard says

  26-08-2017 01:15 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The F/V Akutan is still moored in Unalaska’s Captains Bay. (Photo by Berett Wilber/KUCB)
  Officials have suspended their efforts aboard a disabled fishing vessel in Unalaska.http://media.aprn.org/2017/ann-20170824-07.mp3
  Coast Guard Petty Officer John-Paul Rios said responders have removed almost 16,000 gallons of oil and sludge from the F/V Akutan, which is moored in Captains Bay.
  “The main thing we were trying to do was insure there was no major pollution incident,” Rios
  
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• Sealaska Heritage to celebrate Chilkat robe’s homecoming  

  26-08-2017 00:16 via ktoo.org
  This 100-year-old Chilkat robe will be honored at a homecoming ceremony on Saturday in the Walter Soboleff Building. (Photo by Davina Cole/Sealaska Heritage Institute)
  A 100-year-old Chilkat robe has come home to Southeast Alaska. A Seattle couple originally purchased the robe in 1995. Upon realizing its significance, they began reaching out to experts about its origins.
  Alaska Native weavers, historians and area residents are eager to see the return of the sacred clan object.
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