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• Juneau music group The Heists release party for ‘Break & Mend’ EP, Tlingit & Haida Orange Shirt Day community walk, and Sealaska Heritage Institute educator awardees

  11-09-2026 22:32 via ktoo.org
  Juneau Afternoon recorded live on Thursday, September 10, 2026Audio Podcast
  The Heists, Andrew and Erin, are launching their EP album “Break & Mend” with six tracks at release show on Saturday, September 12 at The Crystal Saloon. After years of playing music together, this is their first work as a writing duo.On Sunday, September 27, Tlingit and Haida’s Wayfinder’s Youth Program and Community Advocacy are partnering together in recognition of Orange Shirt Day and MMI
  
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• Juneau Assembly to vote whether to require nonprofits to charge sales tax on Monday

  11-09-2026 15:00 via ktoo.org
  The Juneau Assembly during a meeting on Monday, June 8, 2026. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  The Juneau Assembly is slated to vote on an ordinance on Monday that would require nonprofits in Juneau to charge sales tax for goods and services — something they’re currently exempt from. 
  If passed, the ordinance would revise the city’s current sales tax exemptions for nonprofits and narrow the exemptions currently in place. 
  The proposed change comes as the Assembly looks
  
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• Three Alaska fishermen plead guilty after being accused of deliberately scuttling boats

  11-09-2026 14:59 via ktoo.org
  Boats in Sitka’s Crescent Harbor are seen on a clear winter day in 2024. (Meghan Chamberlain/U.S. Forest Service)
  Three southeast Alaska commercial fishers accused of deliberately sinking their boats are now pleading guilty.
  John Fisher of Sitka, Joseph Poling of Petersburg and Tony Vanveen of Sitka have each signed plea deals, according to documents filed with the U.S. District Court in the District of Alaska.
  The three were initially charged earlier this year by the U.S. Attorney’
  
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• Arctic Report Card gets new supporters after NOAA cut funding

  11-09-2026 04:15 via ktoo.org
  A tributary of the Kugororuk River in northwest Alaska runs orange. (Josh Koch/U.S. Geological Survey)
  The Arctic Report Card has found a new group of supporters. The climate report’s authors say the American Geophysical Union, a science nonprofit, will keep it going with help from a coalition of partners.
  The news comes after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration pulled its funding  for the report in August. Rick Thoman, a longtime editor, said the people who put the r
  
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• Skagway’s ferry terminal is set to reopen weeks after sudden closure

  11-09-2026 04:12 via ktoo.org
  The Skagway ferry dock underwent repairs in August and early September after facility staff identified structural damage. (Melinda Munson/KHNS)
  The Skagway ferry terminal is on track to reopen on Thursday, nearly a month after ferry service stopped abruptly due to structural damage at the dock.
  The terminal’s closure threw a wrench in regional travel plans, including for seasonal workers planning to leave town and for participants in a running race that draws people from around the region
  
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• More than a dozen black bears feasted at Juneau’s landfill all summer after owner took down fence

  11-09-2026 04:05 via ktoo.org
  Waste Management closed the gap with a temporary electric fence before a Sept. 9 state inspection. (Photo courtesy of DEC)
  Black bears feasted at Juneau’s dump all summer after the company that owns it took down a portion of the wildlife fence for construction. 
  That’s according to state officials who say they’ve been working to resolve the issue with Waste Management, the private landfill owner. 
  Carl Koch, Juneau’s area management biologist at the Alaska Depar
  
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• Newscast – Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026

  11-09-2026 03:06 via ktoo.org
  https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/20260910-News-Update.mp3
  In this newscast:Black bears feasted at Juneau’s dump all summer after the company that owns it took down a portion of the wildlife fence for construction.
  A Lingít opera, nearly a decade in the making, is debuting in Juneau this Friday.
  More young people in Alaska died of suicide in 2025 than in any other year in the past decade.
  A University of Alaska Southeast student used music to present data collected f
  
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• Minds behind the Lingít opera debuting in Juneau say itʼs a return to tradition

  11-09-2026 02:15 via ktoo.org
  Sealaska Heritage Institute President Kaaháni Rosita Worl gives a speech during the official Navy apology for the 1882 bombardment of Angoon. Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  A Lingít opera, nearly a decade in the making, is debuting in Juneau this Friday. An entirely Indigenous cast of singers and dancers will tell the story of the Battles of Sitka while accompanied by an orchestra playing original music. The battles were between Southeast Alaska Native people and Ru
  
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