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• Ketchikan’s tribe holds awakening and launch for X’oots kuye’ik canoe

  08-06-2023 23:06 via ktoo.org
  
  
  People work together to carry the canoe from Ketchikan Indian Community’s Tongass Ave. building to the Bar Harbor boat launch on Friday. (Raegan Miller/KRBD)https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/07CANOE.mp3
  Pouring rain didn’t stop a special ceremony honoring a one-of-a-kind canoe last week. Tribal members and Ketchikan residents gathered to awaken and launch a canoe designed by a late master carver and artist who called Ketchikan one of his homes.
  Dozens of people shoute
  
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• Juneau water and sewer utility rates will rise in July

  08-06-2023 19:55 via ktoo.org
  
  Juneau’s Mendenhall Wastewater Treatment Facility, photographed on June 7, 2023. (Katie Anastas/KTOO)
  Juneau’s utility rates are going up next month.
  Water and sewer utility rates will go up 2% on July 1. They’ll go up another 2% in July 2024.
  Water and sewer rates have gone up 2% each year since 2020. The Juneau Assembly approved the increases in 2019 to keep up with inflation. Revenue goes toward operating and maintaining the city’s water and wastewater systems.
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• Alaska to launch $5 million state-run reading academy amid skepticism

  08-06-2023 18:55 via ktoo.org
  
  The library at Klatt Elementary on Tuesday, March 7, 2023 in Anchorage. (Loren Holmes/ADN)
  The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development is set to launch a new reading instruction center for students and teachers amid concern from some lawmakers that the program appears ill-equipped to meet the needs of the students least likely to achieve reading proficiency.
  The budget recently approved by the Legislature includes $5 million for the launch of a reading academy requested by Gov. Mik
  
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• Avian influenza has returned to Alaska, and so have health advisories

  08-06-2023 18:22 via ktoo.org
  
  A bald eagle is seen on Feb. 6, 2018, perched in a tree in the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge. Bald eagles are near the top of the list of bird species in Alaska that have been killed by the currently circulating strains of highly pathogenic avian influenza. (Photo by Lisa Hupp/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
  Migrating birds have returned to Alaska, and so has the highly pathogenic avian influenza that began to sweep through global bird populations in 2020.
  That means Alaskans should continue t
  
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• June 7, 2023: Chef’s Halo Halo Talk; Juneau Pride Events; Moananuiākea

  08-06-2023 04:35 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The Hōkūle‘a docked in Hoonah on June 1, 2023. (Photo courtesy of Carter Johnson)June 7, 2023 — Full EpisodeOn today’s program:Chef’s Halo Halo Talk with Tasha ElizardeCo-owners of Zerelda’s Bistro Abby LaForce Barnett and Jeremy BarnettSEAGLA and Juneau’s upcoming Pride Week events as part of Pride MonthSEAGLA’s Pride Week is June 9-18Pride Month is the entire month of June, and there are events all over Juneau all month long, includ
  
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• Newcast – Wednesday, June 7, 2023

  08-06-2023 02:59 via ktoo.org
  
  
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  In this newscast:MIT teamed up with Coastal Helicopter and Juneau Ice Research Program to pull off a high-stakes drop for future seismometer research,
  Those who own short-term rentals may soon have to register them with the city,
  Weaver Anna Ehlers, a Juneau elder, received Doctorate of Fine Arts from UAS
  
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• A high-stakes egg drop onto the Juneau Icefield could lead to better monitoring of Antarctic ice

  08-06-2023 01:51 via ktoo.org
  
  The “ice penetrator,” developed by researchers at MIT”s Haystack Observatory, was dropped from 5,000 feet above the Juneau Ice Field (Photo courtesy of Chester Ruszczyk, Jeff Hoffman, and Parker Steen of MIT)
  Earlier this month, engineers from MIT teamed up with Coastal Helicopter and the Juneau Ice Research Program to pull off a high-stakes egg drop. It’s just like the ones you did in school, except the egg is a very fragile, very expensive seismometer. And the drop poin
  
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