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• UAS Admissions Open House | NAMI Suicide Prevention Awareness Community Picnic | Bear Talk with Abby McAllister

  10-09-2026 22:58 via ktoo.org
  Juneau Afternoon recorded live on Wednesday, September 9, 2026
  UAS Admission Open House is happening on Saturday, September 12, 2026, at Egan Library.NAMI Juneau, Juneau Suicide Prevention Coalition, and Tlingit & Haida welcome everyone to a community picnic on Saturday, September 12, 2026 at Savikko Park in Douglas.Bear updates with Abby McAllister from Department of Fish & Game.Audio PodcastNo video livestream of this episode due to some technical issues. Please enjoy the audio via th
  
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• ‘Ḵutulagaaw: The Tlingit-Russian Battles’ to debut Friday

  10-09-2026 15:00 via ktoo.org
  A poster for the event. (Sealaska Heritage Institute)
  The first Lingít opera in recorded history debuts this Friday in Juneau at the Thunder Mountain Middle School auditorium. 
  KTOO published several stories in anticipation of the opera, compiled in this post:
  Tongass Voices: Ed Littlefield on composing a Lingít opera
  Shaakindustoow Ed Littlefield is a Lingít composer and musician from Sitka. For the past three years, he’s been a part of a team composing what will be
  
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• UAS student composes music from Juneau stream data

  10-09-2026 04:15 via ktoo.org
  Lindsey McCulloch and Ashlen Smith at KTOO on Aug. 11, 2026. (Photo by Alix Soliman/KTOO)
  Listen to this story:
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/09Sonification-WEB.wav
  What if, instead of using graphs and words to share environmental data, scientists used music? A student at the University of Alaska Southeast spent her summer doing just that. 
  Ashlen Smith composed songs from complex stream data collected in the Davies Creek Watershed at the north end of Juneau in the H&eac
  
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• Newscast – Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026

  10-09-2026 03:01 via ktoo.org
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/20260909-News-Update.mp3
  In this newscast:The union representing support staff at the Juneau School District is scheduled to go to trial in February.
  The Skagway ferry terminal is on track to reopen on Thursday, nearly a month after state ferry service to the popular tourist destination stopped abruptly in mid-August.
  The Arctic Report Card has found a new group of supporters.
  Joel Jackson, longtime Haida and Lingít advocate and president
  
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• Kake leader Joel Jackson dies at age 70

  10-09-2026 02:19 via ktoo.org
  Kake Tribal Council President Joel Jackson, second from left, prepares to testify to the U.S. House Subcommittee on Public Lands. Photo: Liz Ruskin
  After a battle with pancreatic cancer, elder and tribal leader Joel Jackson died at Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital in Sitka in August. He was Haida and Lingít, a Káach.ádi clan member and child of the Tsaagweidí clan. His loved ones held memorials in Juneau and Kake, where they spoke about his advocacy, his humor, and his passion fo
  
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