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• Filling sandbags to prepare for Juneau’s glacial outburst flooding is quicker this year

  22-07-2026 20:42 via ktoo.org
  
  Juneau city employees fill Bob and Adrienne Atadero’s truck with sandbags on July 18, 2026. (Photo by Alix Soliman/KTOO)
  Juneau residents in the glacial outburst flood zone are preparing their homes for the annual flood expected soon. At a sandbag event in Dimond Park, some of that labor is a bit easier and faster than it was last year.  
  On Saturday, a steady stream of Mendenhall Valley residents drove up to a grid of wooden pallets with around 40 sandbags stacked on each. The m
  
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• Human remains discovered in freezer in Juneau

  22-07-2026 03:25 via ktoo.org
  
  Juneau Police in the Mendenhall Valley on Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  Human remains were discovered inside a chest freezer at a Lemon Creek residence on Sunday.
  That’s according to an information release from the Juneau Police Department on Tuesday. Police received a report from a person cleaning out the home of a dead family member when they discovered the remains in a chest freezer Sunday evening. The freezer was in a shed on the property. 
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• Newscast – Tuesday, July 21, 2026

  22-07-2026 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/20260721-News-Update.mp3
  In this newscast:Juneau now has a free vending machine to distribute community health and healing supplies,
  As the threat of the next glacial outburst flood looms over Juneau, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it will pay for repairs to the flood wall in the aftermath,
  A woman is safe after she lost strength while swimming in the water near Mill Street in downtown Ketchikan,
  Rockskippers recently competed on a beach a
  
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• New free vending machine in Juneau distributes lifesaving interventions

  22-07-2026 00:39 via ktoo.org
  
  Tlingit and Haida President Chalyee Eesh Richard Peterson and Community and Behavioral Services staff member Bettyann Carlos at the grand opening of a free vending machine in downtown Juneau on July 21, 2026. Photo by (Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO)
  Juneau now has a free vending machine to distribute community health and healing supplies. The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska recently opened one downtown. 
  The vending machine is located at the tribe’s Edward K. Th
  
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