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• Artists of All Nations fosters communal creative space

  28-09-2017 23:53 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Juneau painter and 2017 Juneau Arts and Humanities Council Juried Art Show Winner Pua Maunu uses watercolors and pen and ink to paint at Artists of All Nations, a communal art space at the JACC on Sunday, Sep. 24, 2017. (Photo by Annie Bartholomew/KTOO)
  More than 30 artists, children and crafters got together this past weekend for an open studio gathering at the Juneau Arts and Culture Center. 
  It was the second monthly Artists of All Nations event put together by the Juneau Arts and Humani
  
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• Gardentalk – Clean up and garlic planting prep

  28-09-2017 23:43 via ktoo.org
  
  
  A whale of a potato harvest: A North Douglas gardener harvests his potato crop on Thursday. It’s unclear why so many potatoes grew into the shape of marine mammals, but it likely has to do with the particular variety of fingerling potatoes. All of these potatoes will go into temporary storage unwashed since their skins are still so thin and delicate. (Photo by Matt Miller/KTOO)
  The summer gardening season may be winding down, but many gardeners may be busy preparing for planting this fall
  
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• Haines first community to sign DOC contract focused on pretrial services

  28-09-2017 23:37 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Heather Parker with Gov. Walker’s office, DOC Commissioner Dean Williams, Pretrial Director Geri Fox, Haines Mayor Jan Hill, Haines Borough Manager Debra Schnabel and Haines Police Chief Heath Scott pose in a Haines jail cell with a revised community jails contract. (Photo by Emily Files/KHNS)
  Gov. Bill Walker is calling on the legislature to make changes to the crime reform bill known as SB 91.
  But one major part of the law, a pretrial services program, is on track to begin in Januar
  
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• Newscast – Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017

  28-09-2017 22:56 via ktoo.org
  
  
  https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2017/09/20170928-newscast.mp3In this newscast:
  A Ketchikan company wins a first-of-its-kind second growth logging contract on Kosciusko Island in the Tongass National Forest,
  environmentalists sound the alarm on a congressional budget maneuver that could open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, and
  the journal Science reports nearly 300 species of sea creatures from Japan hitchhiked to the Unites States’ Pacific Coast on tsunami debris.
  
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• Fairbanks council OKs stipend over contaminated water

  28-09-2017 22:24 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Fairbanks City Engineer Jackson Fox says the city has tested more than 160 wells around the city-operated Regional Fire Training Center, and in areas downgradient from the RFTC, for the presence of perflourinated compounds. Many have shown levels of PFCs that exceed the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s Lifetime Health Advisory level, which can harm human health. (Graphic by Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation)
  The Fairbanks City Council on Monday approved an ordinance
  
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• Navy veteran and filmmaker sails Alaska’s Inside Passage

  28-09-2017 22:05 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Seth Meyer, left, and Chris Anderson stand at Ketchikan’s Bar Harbor South, where the Sea Bear was tied up Sept. 22, 2017. (Photo by Leila Kheiry/KRBD)
  A U.S. Navy veteran has spent the summer sailing up the coast into Alaska’s Inside Passage.
  Shawn Meyer, accompanied by other veterans during his journey, has been filming the experience and uploading episodes along the way for YouTube show, Sailing the Sea Bear.
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• State-federal agreement awards Ketchikan company second-growth timber sale

  28-09-2017 21:41 via ktoo.org
  A U.S. Forest Service timber crew on Kosciusko Island (Photo courtesy U.S. Forest Service)
  A Ketchikan company has been awarded a $2.6-million sale of second-growth timber on an island in Southeast Alaska.
  The state of Alaska prepared and awarded the contract for logging on federal land on Kosciusko Island under an agreement with the federal government.
  The sale is the first of its kind in Alaska under what’s called a good neighbor authority agreement, which allows the state’s Divisi
  
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• Ketchikan remains an attractive cruise ship destination

  28-09-2017 21:06 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The Borda family disembarks from the Norwegian Jewel on Monday, Sept. 25th. Candy Borda is Ketchikan’s 1 millionth cruise visitor for 2017. (Photo by Leila Kheiry/KRBD)
  The future remains bright for the cruise industry in Alaska, a cruise line association president said Monday during a shared during a luncheon.
  Cruise Lines International Association Alaska president John Binkley delivered the optimistic news to the Ketchikan Visitors Bureau and Greater Ketchikan Chamber
  
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• Experimental Oasis project gives inmates ‘something different in prison’

  28-09-2017 20:34 via ktoo.org
  Spring Creek Superintendent Bill Lapinskas poses with one of the murals in the segregation housing at the Correctional Center. (Photo by Anne Hillman/Alaska Public Media)The Department of Corrections is the largest mental health care provider in the state, and the administrators at Spring Creek Correctional Center want to make it one of the most effective, too.
  They’re treating inmates who have mental illnesses with new innovations — porches and paintings.
  During his three years at S
  
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• Fish and Game looks deeper into declining Cook Inlet belugas

  28-09-2017 19:51 via ktoo.org
  The population of beluga whales in Cook Inlet is a third of what it once was in 1970. (Photo courtesy of LGL Alaska Research Associates)
  The beluga whale population in Cook Inlet has been steadily declining since the 1970s.
  The number of whales in the area today is just a third of what it once was, and the Alaska Department of Fish Game wants to help belugas recover.
  In order to do that, Fish and Game needs to answer other questions about mating and their habitat, and two new studies aim to do j
  
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• Commercial fishing for Southeast red king crab to open this fall after six years

  28-09-2017 19:30 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The last commercial opening for red king crab in Southeast was 2011. (Photo by Alaska Department of Fish & Game)
  Southeast Alaska will open to commercial fishing for red king crab this fall for the first time in six years.
  The crab population has seen a steady increase, according to state surveys.http://media.aprn.org/2017/ann-20170927-07.mp3Red king crab are the largest shell fish in the state and can weigh up to 24 pounds and have a leg span of 5 feet.
  What commercial fishermen in Southeas
  
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• Trump administration waives shipping restriction for Puerto Rico

  28-09-2017 18:26 via ktoo.org
  The Trump administration announced Thursday that it has temporarily waived a U.S. shipping restriction for Puerto Rico known as the Jones Act.
  Under the law, only U.S.-flagged ships are allowed to move goods between any U.S. ports. Now foreign-flagged vessels also will be able to move shipments from the U.S. mainland to Puerto Rico and between ports there. The move is intended to boost the delivery of much-needed relief supplies after Hurricane Maria battered the U.S. territory last week.
  The Pu
  
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• Enviros sound the alarm on ANWR

  28-09-2017 05:22 via ktoo.org
  Caribou graze on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge with the Brooks Range as a backdrop in October 2010. (Public domain photo by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
  Environmentalists are warning that the Republican plan to cut taxes could include a move that would open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling.
  A draft of the Senate budget plan for 2018 is likely to emerge next week. No one expects the document to mention the Arctic Refuge by name. Lydia Weiss of The Wild
  
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• Ask a Climatologist: How the jet stream affects Alaska

  28-09-2017 03:10 via ktoo.org
  Banded cirrus clouds run perpendicular to the jet stream—a telltale feature photographed by an astronaut aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. (Photo courtesy of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center)
  The jet stream circles the globe from west to east affecting weather, climate and even the length of many airplane flights.
  This week on Ask a Climatologist we’re answering a question from a listener who asked how the jet stream affects weather in Alaska.
  Climatologist Brian Brettschneider
  
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• Ferry plan calls for smaller ships, public management

  28-09-2017 02:58 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Crew members wrap up a safety drill on the deck of the ferry Malaspina during a sailing from Juneau to Haines on Sept. 18. The ferry system faces changes to its fleet as part of a larger reform plan. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska News)
  A plan to reform the Alaska Marine Highway System calls for replacing some ferries with smaller, more efficient vessels. Backers want it to be run by an independent corporation and negotiate its own labor contracts.https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/201
  
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• Mumps outbreak hits Anchorage, 13 cases confirmed

  28-09-2017 02:05 via ktoo.org
  Glycoprotein tubercles stud a spherical mumps virus particle. The studs are colorized reddish-brown and are known as F-proteins (fusion), and those colorized beige are referred to as HN-proteins (hemagglutinin-neuraminidase). (Public domain illustration by Alissa Eckert/CDC)
  Alaska and Anchorage officials say a mumps outbreak has hit the city, with 13 cases of the infection being confirmed as of Sept. 25.KTUU reported Monday that this is Alaska’s first outbreak in more than 20 years.
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• Health premiums to rise an average of 24 percent on Washington exchange

  28-09-2017 02:05 via ktoo.org
  (Creative Commons image by TaxRebate.org.uk)
  If you buy individual health insurance through Washington’s Health Benefit Exchange get ready for sticker shock. Rates will go up by an average of 24 percent next year.
  Related story: Alaska health insurance exchange premiums are going down. Seriously.
  “It’s difficult, we get it,” Michael Marchand, the state exchange’s marketing director, said when asked about the impact of higher rates on consumers. &ldquo
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 9-28-17

  28-09-2017 02:00 via ktoo.org
  Thursday at 3 on a Juneau Afternoon, Scott Burton will host.
  We’ll talk with Dr. Lora Vess about Food Supply Risks;
  Frank Katasse will be here to highlight the new production from the Juneau-Douglas Little Theatre, Insomniacs;
  We’ll get the details about the Hasty Half Marathon;
  And Nancy DeCherney will be here with Arts Up
   
  That, Writer’s Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, live at 3 on KTOO, repeated at 4 on KRNN; and available on demand via ktoo.org
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• If you’re drinking tap water, you’re consuming plastic pollutants

  28-09-2017 01:44 via ktoo.org
  Workers in Muara Angke, Indonesia, steam and shuck mussels pulled from the waters around Jakarta. Scientists have studied how micro plastics absorb toxins they are in proximity to and how they are then taken up into the food chain in mussels and other shellfish. (Photo by Christopher Tyree/©OrbMedia)
  Microscopic plastic fibers are pouring out of household faucets from New York to Delhi, according to original research by Orb Media, a nonprofit digital newsroom in Washington, DC.
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