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• Newscast – Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017

  29-08-2017 22:53 via ktoo.org
  
  
  http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/20170829newscast.mp3In this newscast:
  The state of Alaska is looking into if it should sue the makers of OxyContin,
  Hurricane Harvey disrupts Gulf Oil production though a state economist says it’s unlucky to have much effect on demand for Alaska oil, and
  the locally produced documentary “Lineage: Tlingit Art Across Generations” premieres tonight on 360 North.
  
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• Fish wheel: Design from the past may be a solution for the future

  29-08-2017 21:41 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Maggie Bobby, left, and Barb Carlson have run a fish wheel near Sleetmute since 2015. (Photo by Anna Rose MacArthur/KYUK)
  With gillnet fishing limited to only a few days on the Kuskokwim for most of June and July, some people on the river turned to alternative ways of filling their smokehouses. https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kyuk/audio/2017/08/170717_fish_wheel_pkg_final_final.mp3In Sleetmute, Barb Carlson and Maggie Bobby ran a fish wheel to get their season’s catch of red salmon.
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• Why are Atlantic salmon being farmed in the Northwest?

  29-08-2017 21:02 via ktoo.org
  Earlier this month, a net pen broke apart near Washington state’s Cypress Island. The pen held 305,000 Atlantic salmon, a non-native fish.
  The company that owns the pen, Cooke Aquaculture, says it is unsure exactly how many Atlantic salmon escaped, but the state estimates between 4,000 and 185,700. Cooke and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife are trying to collect and count the fish that did not escape to get a better handle on how many broke out of the pen.
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• For now, Hurricane Harvey not expected to impact Alaska’s oil and gas

  29-08-2017 20:22 via ktoo.org
  Coast Guardsmen rescue 15 people in distress aboard three vessels after Hurricane Harvey made landfall near Aug. 26, 2017, near Port Aransas, Texas. (Photo courtesy Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi)
  Hurricane — now Tropical Storm — Harvey has caused nearly 100 oil and gas production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico to temporarily shut down.  
  Since the storm came ashore last Friday, oil production in the region has dropped by more than 300,000 barrels per day, according to
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 8-29-17

  29-08-2017 18:48 via ktoo.org
  Steve Quinn will be here to highlight Youth Hockey opportunities;
   
  We’ll talk with Ishmael Hope and Scott Burton about a new documentary featuring Tlingit art;
   
  We’ll get a preview of a Family concert this Friday by the Stringmans
   
  And we have Student Services Director Bridget Weiss, here to talk about the new Kinder Ready Preschool at Harborview School.
   
  At 4, tune in to KTOO for All Things Considered, followed at 6, it’s Alaska News Nightly.
  
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• The melancholy Juneau summer of blue ice

  29-08-2017 16:00 via ktoo.org
  Part of the mass balance group skiing to their pit located behind Emperor Peak. (Photo by Julian Cross, courtesy Juneau Icefield Research Program)
  For many first-time visitors, the Juneau Icefield is a surreal and sublime experience.
  “I’m completely in love with it. I cried when we hiked off the glacier the last day,” laughed Hannah Perrine Mode, who’s originally from Boston and who has never been to Alaska before this summer.
  Mode served as the first-ever, artist-in-resi
  
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• Documentary ‘Lineage: Tlingit Art Across Generations’ premieres Tuesday

  29-08-2017 03:42 via ktoo.org
  
  
  “Lineage: Tlingit Art Across Generations” premieres Tuesday night on 360 North. The 1-hour documentary film is a collaboration between KTOO Public Media, 360 North public television and Tlingit poet and storyteller Ishmael Hope.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/28LINEAGE.mp3The documentary explores the artistic lineage of many Tlingit culture bearers, including weavers, carvers, bead artists, musicians and more.
  “What was important to me was a multi-generational re
  
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• Documentary ‘Lineage: Tlingit Act Across Generations’ premieres Tuesday

  29-08-2017 03:42 via ktoo.org
  
  
  “Lineage: Tlingit Art Across Generations” premieres Tuesday night on 360 North. The 1-hour documentary film is a collaboration between KTOO Public Media, 360 North public television and Tlingit poet and storyteller Ishmael Hope.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/08/28LINEAGE.mp3The documentary explores the artistic lineage of many Tlingit culture bearers, including weavers, carvers, bead artists, musicians and more.
  “What was important to me was a multi-generational re
  
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• State Department of Public Safety reaches out to fishermen in effort to combat opioid abuse

  29-08-2017 02:58 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Commercial fishermen throughout the state, such as those in The Haines Portage Cove Harbor pictured here, received a letter warning of the dangers of opioids this summer. (Photo by Emily Files/KHNS)
  Earlier this year, Alaska Gov. Bill Walker issued a disaster declaration to combat opioid abuse in the state.
  Since then, more time and resources have been dedicated to the issue. This summer, some of those efforts are aimed at getting the attention of the fishing community.
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• Grand jury indicts man who allegedly carried 23 grams of heroin internally

  29-08-2017 02:45 via ktoo.org
  On. Aug. 24, a Sitka grand jury indicted a man for allegedly trafficking in heroin.
  Kirk Allyn Vandoren (Photo courtesy Sitka Police Department)
  The grand jury indicted Kirk Allyn Vandoren, 54, on one felony count of second-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance and one misdemeanor count of fourth-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance.
  Vandoren was arrested Aug. 20 at the Sitka airport on suspicion of drug trafficking.
  Police obtained a search warrant and arran
  
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• As Haines considers police service expansion, funding is point of contention

  29-08-2017 00:11 via ktoo.org
  The Haines Police service area does not include residents who live along the Haines Highway. (Photo by Abbey Collins/KHNS)
  The Haines Borough is looking into extending the police department’s jurisdiction to areas previously served by a Haines-based Alaska State Trooper.
  Residents will have another opportunity to voice their opinions about police service outside the Haines townsite at a meeting 6 p.m. Tuesday in Assembly chambers.
  The Haines trooper post closed earlier this year. There is
  
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