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• How do you recognize signs of suicide and what do you do? NAMI Juneau has answers.

  30-09-2026 22:38 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Aaron Surma, the executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness Juneau, gives testimony at a Bartlett Regional Hospital meeting on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  September is Suicide Awarenss Month, but throughout the year, Juneau’s mental heath nonprofit hosts suicide awareness trainings for young people, parents, and community members.
  National Alliance on Mental Illness, or NAMI Juneau, Executive Aaron Surma and Youth Program Coordinator Charity Anderson spo
  
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• Fat Bear Week Crowns a New Benevolent King: 89 Backpack

  30-09-2026 19:49 via ktoo.org
  Bear 89 Backpack – the winner of Fat Bear Week 2026 (Images courtesy of the National Park Service).
  It was the worst of times, it was the best of times. Amidst doom scrolls and dark headlines, over 2.5 million humans tuned into Fat Bear Week this year -hungry for good news. Allow me to share a bite: Fat Bear Week has crowned a new champion, and it is the sizable and the sensitive 89 Backpack. 
  Backpack’s road to royalty included an early, easy win over the small-but-mighty 610 f
  
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• Neets Bay Hatchery in Southeast Alaska opens first chum fishery in nearly a decade

  30-09-2026 15:01 via ktoo.org
  Bob Martin, a Petersburg fisherman, puts salmon into a tote at the Neets Bay opener on Aug. 8, 2026. (Baiz Hoen/KFSK)
  When Petersburg fisherman Bob Martin arrived at Neets Bay for the chum salmon opener, he didn’t have a great feeling.
  “ I got there in the dark and it looked like a small city with all the lights of all the boats that were staged and ready for the 5 a.m. opening,” he said.
  About 30 boats were crowded into the bay for the historic commercial opener. Martin
  
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• New monument honors Alaska Native veterans and their healing journeys

  30-09-2026 03:06 via ktoo.org
  The chief of the Valdez Native Tribe Bill Smith (right) and other veterans unveil a new monument at the Alaska Native Heritage Center’s Ngíisdla Garden on Sunday, Sept. 27. (Alena Naiden/KNBA)
  The Alaska Native Heritage Center’s Ngíisdla Garden was glowing with fall foliage on Sunday as dozens of veterans gathered for the unveiling of a new monument honoring their service and healing.
  “This monument creates a permanent place here at the Heritage Center to recogni
  
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• 4 Alaska Native boarding school students to be repatriated

  30-09-2026 03:04 via ktoo.org
  Carlisle Barracks Main Post Cemetery. (Office of Army Cemeteries)
  Sheepinsh Goah has always had questions about the experiences of her ancestors. Goah is Tsimshian and grew up in Ketchikan, where she lives today. Most of her family lives in the area. She is the daughter of a boarding school survivor.
  Around a year ago, she was told she had another ancestor at a boarding school, but this one didn’t survive. Her great aunt, Mabel Stack, had been identified in an army cemetery in Pennsylvani
  
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• Newscast – Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026

  30-09-2026 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
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  In this newscast:Petro Marine Services plans to replace Juneau’s main fuel dock next year,
  The Juneau School District began the year with nearly 100 fewer students than projected. As a result, some elementary schools have shuffled around teachers and students,
  September is Suicide Awareness Month, but Juneau’s mental health support nonprofit hosts suicide awareness trainings for young people, parents, and comm
  
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• Juneau’s primary fuel dock to be replaced next year

  30-09-2026 02:24 via ktoo.org
  Petro Marine’s fuel dock south of downtown Juneau is at least 55 years old, photographed on Sept. 29, 2026 (Photo by Alix Soliman/KTOO)
  Petro Marine Services plans to replace Juneau’s main fuel dock next year. The dock is located just south of downtown at the Rock Dump Industrial Area, near the cruise ship docks.
  “This facility is the primary dock that receives petroleum products for the city of Juneau,” said Matthew Lindsey, the chief operating officer at Petro Marine in
  
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• Lower enrollment leads to reshuffling at Juneau elementary schools

  30-09-2026 01:48 via ktoo.org
  Students and families walk into Mendenhall River Community School on Aug. 15, 2025. (Photo by Jamie Diep/KTOO)
  Listen here:
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  Student enrollment is dropping at the Juneau School District. The district predicted as much, but this year, it’s even worse. District leadership reported during a September school board meeting that there are 94 fewer students than originally planned for.
  Sybil Van Derhoff, the district’s hum
  
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