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• UAS campuses celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day

  07-10-2017 20:20 via ktoo.org
  Indigenous People’s Day is Monday, and the University of Alaska Southeast will mark the occasion with academic discussions and deer stew.
  In June, Gov. Bill Walker signed legislation officially recognizing the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day in Alaska. Alaska is the second state to replace Columbus Day by refocusing the day on Native culture.
  Kolene James is the coordinator for the UAS Native and Rural Student Center.
  “We have faculty and staff at all three
  
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• Ridle to focus on costs as administration commissioner

  07-10-2017 05:29 via ktoo.org
  Leslie Ridle was appointed commissioner of the Alaska Department of Administration. (Photo courtesy Alaska Department of Administration)
  Gov. Bill Walker announced Friday that he appointed Leslie Ridle to be commissioner of the Department of Administration. Ridle said her focus will be on the bottom line.
  “Our priorities are to create as many efficiencies as we can for the state,” Ridle said. “We’ve been working really hard to provide service to the public and to our inte
  
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• Authorities identify remains as woman missing since June

  07-10-2017 03:06 via ktoo.org
  A missing person flyer for Teri Heuscher was posted at the Under Thunder trailhead off Jennifer Drive in the in June. Heuscher’s remains have been located. (Photo by Quinton Chandler/KTOO)
  Human remains found Monday near the base of Thunder Mountain are those of a missing Juneau woman.
  According to a Juneau Police Department news release, the Alaska State Medical Examiner’s Office identified Teri Heuscher, 53, using dental records. She had been missing since June 24.
  A cause of death
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 10-9-17

  07-10-2017 02:00 via ktoo.org
   
  Monday on A Juneau Afternoon, Scott Burton hosts.
   
  Deb Gregoire will be here with a profile of Planned Parenthood;
   
  City Manager Rory Watt will be here to highlight the city’s Commission on Aging;
   
  We’ll talk with Alida Bus about the Tuesday edition of Mudrooms;
   
  And we’ll get the details on this month’s Audubon presentation, with guest Brenda Wright.
   
  That, Writers Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, today on A Juneau Afternoon, live
  
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• Dan Henry back on the Skagway Assembly, after an election decided by 5 votes

  07-10-2017 01:44 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Dan Henry won the race for the second assembly seat by just five votes. (Photo by Emily Files/KHNS)
  A longtime Skagway Assemblyman who in 2016 was sentenced to a year in prison on federal tax charges will return to the dais.
  He won by just five votes. And, the city has its first female mayor in two decades.http://khns.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/06SkagElexwINTRO.mp3It was too close to call on election night.
  But, after 79 absentee ballots were tallied, Dan Henry narrowly beat out write-in Phi
  
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• Coastal researchers, fishermen worried about more frequent low oxygen zones

  07-10-2017 01:20 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary research team members, Kathy Hough and LTJG Alisha Friel, recover sensors deployed seasonally off the coast of Washington from the research vessel Tatoosh in July 2017. (Photo courtesy S. Maenner/NOAA)
  https://cpa.ds.npr.org/northwestnews/audio/2017/10/100617TB_Deadzone_web.mp3Scientists in Oregon and Washington are noticing a disruptive ocean phenomenon is becoming more frequent and extreme.
  It involves a suffocating ribbon of low oxygen seawater over our
  
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• How Anchorage’s ‘innovation team’ is fixing the problem of unpaid fines

  07-10-2017 00:54 via ktoo.org
  Unpaid fine notice (Municipality of Anchorage)
  In early June, Anchorage’s treasury office mailed out a letter that did its best to catch the reader’s attention.
  “You really need to open this,” the envelope read. Inside, the letter warned of an overdue payment on a $272.73 traffic ticket for tinted windows. As well as spelling out the consequences of not paying, the letter gave the reader the option of a payment plan.
  One of a few thousand similar notices mailed out that w
  
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• Skagway Assembly frustrated by disagreements with White Pass on potential lease

  07-10-2017 00:40 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Tourists in Skagway take pictures with a White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad train car. (Photo by Emily Files/KHNS)
  Some Skagway leaders are growing frustrated with what they see as an unproductive back-and-forth with White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad.
  What started as a hopeful process aimed at a new tidelands lease has now turned into something close to a stalemate.
  At the latest Skagway Assembly meeting, members were unsure how to move forward.
  http://khns.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/06SB
  
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