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• Juneau Assembly to decide on key local election topics at Monday meeting

  24-07-2026 15:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The Mendenhall Wastewater Facility on Thursday, July 23, 2026. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  The Juneau Assembly is slated to tackle major local election topics at its regular meeting on Monday night.  
  The Assembly will vote on whether to put two potential bond debt proposals worth $25 million on this fall’s local election ballot. 
  One bond question would ask voters to approve up to $16 million in debt to fund renovations and upgrades at several public schools. The other a
  
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• Race for Juneau’s school board seats remains uncontested

  24-07-2026 03:46 via ktoo.org
  
  A graphic of Britteny Cioni-Haywood (left) on April 14, 2026 and David Noon (right) on Feb. 19, 2026. (Jamie Diep/KTOO)
  As the candidate filing deadline approaches, the race for Juneau’s two open school board seats appears to be uncontested so far. Anyone else interested in running has until Monday afternoon to file.
  As of Thursday afternoon, only incumbents Britteny Cioni-Haywood and David Noon have filed to run.Lon Garrison encourages other people in Juneau to run. He is the recently ret
  
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• Cruise ship reports its fourth outbreak of stomach illness this year after recent docking in Juneau

  24-07-2026 03:38 via ktoo.org
  
  The National Geographic Sea Bird. (Photo courtesy of Ethan Ableman/Flickr)
  A small cruise ship traveling through Southeast Alaska has reported outbreaks of a gastrointestinal illness on two back-to-back voyages this month. On one of the sailings, nearly a third of the passengers got sick.
  That’s according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which today reported the fourth outbreak aboard the National Geographic Sea Bird since late May. The Sea Bird is a small cruise ship of
  
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• Newscast – Thursday, July 23, 2026

  24-07-2026 03:06 via ktoo.org
  
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/20260723-News-Update.mp3
  In this newscast:The Alaska Division of Elections has moed thousands of registered voters to its “inactive” list due to suspicion that they are not citizens.
  As the candidate filing deadline approaches, the race for Juneau’s two open school board seats appears to be uncontested so far.
  One of Dutch Harbor’s major seafood processors plans to pay about $5,900 to federal regulators to settle violation
  
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