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• Juneau mom turns passion for sourdough into popular microbakery

  27-07-2026 23:19 via ktoo.org
  
  From left to right, Zane Darbonne, 12, Ben Steele, 9, and Mel Steele smile for a photo at her microbakery in the Mendenhall Valley on Friday, July 24, 2026. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
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  A Juneau mom turned her passion for baking sourdough goods into a small business this summer, and it’s quickly risen in popularity.Each weekend, dozens of people line up to try her goods at her small microbakery stand at the end of h
  
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• Alaskan Brewing Co. celebrates 40th anniversary operating in Juneau

  27-07-2026 15:01 via ktoo.org
  Alaskan Brewing Company’s early crew and medals. (Alaskan Brewing Co.)
  In the 1980s, Geoff and Marcy Larson were working in different industries. Geoff was a chemical engineer and worked in a gold mine. Marcy was an accountant and had her sights on becoming a bush pilot. But they had a common love of beer.
  The Larsons visited KTOO to share the story of how the Alaskan Brewing Company was born 40 years ago and how it’s grown since.
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• Lawsuits seek to overturn permit for road construction through Alaska wildlife refuge

  27-07-2026 15:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Brant fly over Izembek Lagoon at Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.on Sept. 28, 2016. The refuge is used as a migratory stop for nearly the entire global population of Pacific black brant. a type of goose. Two new lawsuits are challenging a federal permit for a road that would cross Izembek habitat used by the brant and other migratory birds. (Kristine Sowl/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
  Two weeks before construction could begin on a controversial road that would cut through Izembek National Wil
  
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• Democrat in Alaska’s governor race reports $1.8M fundraising haul, driven by Californians

  27-07-2026 15:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins answers a question at his table during the Commonwealth North Gubernatorial Candidate Meet & Greet event at Wildbirch Hotel in Anchorage on Monday, July 20. (Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News)
  Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, a Democratic former state lawmaker from Sitka, has raised more campaign funds than any other of the 17 candidates in Alaska’s governor race, according to reports filed this week.
  Kreiss-Tomkins has brought in $1.8 million since entering the race in
  
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