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• Tongass Voices: Rebecca Hsieh on intertwining community and art with Head in the Clouds Collective

  14-05-2024 01:57 via ktoo.org
  
  Rebecca Hsieh from ReccaShay Studios sits in her corner of the Heads in the Clouds Collective studio in March 2024.
  This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing weekly perspectives from the homelands of the Áak’w Kwáan and beyond. 
  It’s been over a year since Rebecca Hsieh moved into her new studio space downtown. Since then, she and three other artists have formed Heads in the Clouds Collective, a growing community space for anyone in Juneau to learn a new a
  
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• Federal grand jury indicts man accused of stabbing multiple people on cruise ship

  29-05-2024 02:45 via ktoo.org
  
  The Norwegian Encore berths in Juneau in Oct. 2022. (Clarise Larson/for the Juneau Empire)
  A federal grand jury in Alaska has indicted the man arrested by the FBI in Juneau earlier this month for allegedly stabbing multiple people with scissors aboard the Norwegian Encore.
  Ntando Sogoni, 35, of South Africa is charged with one count of assault with intent to murder, three counts of assault with a dangerous weapon and three counts of assault resulting in serious bodily injury. 
  If convicted,
  
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• Juneau’s graduating seniors celebrated over the weekend – including Thunder Mountain’s final class

  29-05-2024 00:46 via ktoo.org
  
  From left to right, Yaaḵoosgé Daakahídi Alternative High School graduate Joseph Gomez, Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé graduate Ryan Shattuck and Thunder Mountain High School graduate Elizabeth Djajalie on Sunday, May 26, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO)https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/28graduation.wav
  More than 300 seniors graduated from Juneau’s three high schools on Sunday. For Thunder Mountain’s graduates, the ceremony was especial
  
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• Culture Rich Conversations: ‘Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo’ by Taylor Jenkins Reid

  29-05-2024 00:34 via ktoo.org
  
  
  On this episode of Culture Rich Conversations from Juneau’s Black Awareness Association, host Christina Michelle and her guest, Angelica Fields-Morgan, have a discussion about the banned book, “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo,” by author Taylor Jenkins Reid. In the novel, legendary film star Evelyn Hugo tells reporter Monique Grant about her life. At 79 years old, with all her close family members and former spouses gone, Evelyn is finally ready to share the true story
  
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• Some passengers’ cars may be stuck in Haines for weeks after Beerfest ferry breakdown

  28-05-2024 22:22 via ktoo.org
  
  The Alaska ferry LeConte traveling toward Juneau on Aug. 3, 2022. (Photo by Claire Stremple/KTOO)
  Update — May 28, 5:00 p.m.
  Sam Dapcevich of the Department of Transportation told KTOO on Tuesday afternoon that the LeConte is back in operation and headed to Haines to pick up around 30 stranded vehicles. Dapcevich said the DOT was contacting passengers in the order that they booked, and people would have a few hours to arrange for their cars to be loaded onto the ferry.
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• More than 50 cars may be stuck in Haines for weeks after Beerfest ferry breakdown

  28-05-2024 22:22 via ktoo.org
  
  The Alaska ferry LeConte traveling toward Juneau on Aug. 3, 2022. (Photo by Claire Stremple/KTOO)
  Dozens of cars may be stuck in Haines for a month or more due to the cancellation of two sailings of the state ferry LeConte.
  On Saturday, during Beerfest — a Haines festival that attracts 1500 people each Memorial Day weekend — revelers visiting from Juneau and other Southeast towns started to get calls saying that their ride home was canceled. 
  The LeConte’s Sunday and Tuesd
  
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• Tongass Voices: Seth Williams on what it takes to be a karaoke host

  28-05-2024 19:50 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Rouel Dela Cruz performing karaoke at the Alaskan on May 22, 2024. (Photo by Yvonne Krumrey/KTOO)
  This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing weekly perspectives from the homelands of the Áak’w Kwáan and beyond.
  Every Wednesday night, the Alaskan Hotel & Bar in downtown Juneau swarms with hopefuls. One by one, they get the chance to step on the stage, mic in hand, and sing whatever they please. 
  The man who hands them the mic is Seth Williams. He’s been
  
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• Judicial Council recommends Alaskans keep all judges, including figure behind correspondence ruling

  28-05-2024 18:54 via ktoo.org
  
  The Alaska State Capitol and Dimond Courthouse are seen on Thursday morning, Jan. 18, 2024 in Juneau, Alaska. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)
  The Alaska Judicial Council has voted to recommend that state voters retain all 19 judges on the November election ballot, but the recommendation didn’t come without dissent.
  Meeting Wednesday, two of the council’s six members voted against the recommendation for Judge Adolf Zeman, citing Zeman’s recent ruling on the constitutionali
  
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• Inside Kasaan’s preparations for 250-mile canoe voyage to Juneau for Celebration

  28-05-2024 18:49 via ktoo.org
  Eric Hamar hand-planes a paddle in Kasaan’s carving shed. (Jack Darrell/KRBD)
  Inside Kasaan’s carving shed in early May, Eric Hamar is hard at work.
  Hamar is a Haida artist and carver, and he spends his days carving in the workshop in Kasaan, a small village of about 30 people on Prince of Wales Island. The thick smell of cedar in the air, Hamar’s surrounded by canoes, paddles, a half-carved totem pole, and tools.
  On this particular day, he was busy getting ready for Celebratio
  
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• Decades ago, sperm whales learned how to raid fishermen’s lines of black cod. Now, an Alaska man is charged with killing one.

  28-05-2024 18:29 via ktoo.org
  In this May 25, 2005, photo provided by the Southeast Alaska Sperm Whale Avoidance Project, a sperm whale swims near a fishing boat in Alaska. Sperm whales may be using the sounds of fishing boat engines as underwater “dinner bells” to hone in on valuable sablefish hooked by longlines in the Gulf of Alaska.
  A Ketchikan fisherman has pleaded guilty in federal court to killing an endangered sperm whale in a first-of-its-kind case that highlights a long, little known conflict between th
  
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• Stranded Beerfest travelers scramble to rebook after LeConte ferry breakdown

  26-05-2024 23:21 via ktoo.org
  
  The LeConte in 2023. (Lex Treinen/Chilkat Valley News)
  The ferry LeConte broke down over the weekend, leaving some of the thousands who came to Haines for Beerfest stranded.
  People will have an easier time getting back to other Southeast Alaska communities if they’re not traveling with a vehicle. The earliest available booking to get a car southbound on a state ferry is July 2, according to the Alaska Marine Highway System’s online booking platform.
  That leaves people like Piper Hane
  
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• Many Alaska king salmon stocks up for Endangered Species Act review after group’s petition

  25-05-2024 23:18 via ktoo.org
  
  
  A chinook salmon. (Ryan Hagerty/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
  A petition to list many Alaska king salmon stocks as endangered has cleared its first hurdle.
  As first reported by the Northern Journal, it’s mainly a bureaucratic step for the petition, from the Washington-based Wild Fish Conservancy, and kicks off a scientific review likely to take at least a year.
  But the National Marine Fisheries Service said in an announcement Thursday that listing the chinook stocks under the Endangered
  
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• Visa programs draw foreign teachers to Alaska’s rural school districts

  25-05-2024 23:09 via ktoo.org
  Dale Ebcas teaches Special Education at the Joseph and Olinga Gregory Elementary School in Upper Kalskag. (Emily Schwing/KYUK)
  When special education teacher Dale Ebcas moved from his home in the Philippines to the tiny Alaskan village of Upper Kalskag back in the winter of 2020, the warmest layer he brought with him was a trench coat.
  “I was imagining a weather like, you know, Korea,” Ebcas laughed. “Because I’m a fan of watching Korean movies and it’s like, &lsquo
  
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• Newscast – Friday, May 24, 2024

  25-05-2024 03:05 via ktoo.org
  
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  In this newscast: A group of paddlers from Kasaan prepare for a 10-day, over 250-mile journey to Juneau for Celebration in canoes they carved themselves, making stops in communities like Wrangell and Petersburg along the way.
  Alaskans looking to invest in solar panels or other renewable energy infrastructure for their homes will likely have some new options in the next few years. The state is setting up a new so-cal
  
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• Juneau Afternoon: June events including Symphony POPS, Juneau Fine Arts Camp, Cancer Connection’s Celebration Walk, and the Dolly Dash Fun Run

  25-05-2024 02:34 via ktoo.org
  
  
  The Dolly Dash is happening Saturday, June 8, in Juneau.Friday, May 24, 2024 — Full EpisodeOn today’s program:The Juneau Symphony’s upcoming summer concert – “BOOM”The Dolly Dash Family Fun Run supporting the Dolly Parton Imagination Library program via SEA-AEYCInformation on National Cancer Survivors Day from Cancer ConnectionA preview of Theater Alaska’s upcoming educational camps in partnership with the Juneau Fine Arts Camp
  Bostin Christopher hosts t
  
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• Homer cyclist wins national title in road race championship

  24-05-2024 23:44 via ktoo.org
  
  Kristen Faulkner. (EF Education-Cannondale)
  Kristen Faulkner, 31, won this year’s Elite Women’s Road Race in West Virginia. She finished the 127-kilometer race in under three and a half hours, beating the next racer by almost a minute.
  While she says she competed in sports her entire life, the Homer athlete began her cycling journey seven years ago in New York. Faulkner worked in the finance industry at the time and went to an introductory cycling clinic in Central Park.
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• Garden Talk: Juneau’s Jensen-Olson Arboretum celebrates Public Gardens Day and Primula Day

  24-05-2024 20:58 via ktoo.org
  
  Primula chugensis. (Jensen-Olson Arboretum)https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/24GT_Primulas.mp3
  Green things have been sprouting up all over Juneau in the past month and a half. Along with the warmer weather comes a burst of color and life at the Jensen-Olson Arboretum. 
  Ginger Hudson, the arboretum’s manager, recently spoke with KTOO’s Garden Talk about what the arboretum has planned for Memorial Day weekend.
  On Saturday, the arboretum will celebrate both Nationa
  
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• Anchorage 3rd grader wins statewide Doodle for Google art competition

  24-05-2024 19:24 via ktoo.org
  
  Rabbit Creek Elementary School third grader Lennex Czajkowski holds her winning Doodle for Google artwork. (Valerie Lake/Alaska Public Media)
  A third grader from Rabbit Creek Elementary School in Anchorage is Alaska’s winner in the 15th annual Doodle for Google nationwide art competition.
  In January, Google asked K-12 students across the country to create a doodle showing their wish for the next 25 years. Lennex Czajkowski’s won for her piece titled “For the World not to be Pol
  
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• Alaska lawmakers pass child care legislation to buoy sector ‘in crisis’

  24-05-2024 19:15 via ktoo.org
  
  Smocks draped over an easel in a classroom at Hillcrest Children’s Center on April 18, 2024, in Anchorage. (Photo by Claire Stremple/Alaska Beacon)
  About a dozen preschoolers played in the snowmelt in the yard of Hillcrest Children’s Center in Anchorage this April. Most were zipped into heavy duty outerwear against the spring chill. All of them were splattered with dirt.
  “One of our values is mud,” said Christina Eubanks, the center’s director, before an exuberant a
  
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• Newscast – Thursday, May 23, 2024

  24-05-2024 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
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  In this newscast:Members of Juneau’s Assembly decided to lower the city’s property tax rate next year,
  Alaska Congresswoman Mary Peltola introduced two bills that aim to reduce the number of salmon that the pollock fleet catches by accident,
  Leaders from Ketchikan’s Indigenous communities spoke passionately against inauthentic totem poles at a city council meeting
  
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• Juneau Assembly agrees to lower property tax rate next year

  24-05-2024 01:58 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Assembly member Wade Bryson, Mayor Beth Weldon and Assembly member Michelle Hale chat during a break at a finance meeting on Wednesday, May 22, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO)https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/23millrate_01.mp3
  Members of the Juneau Assembly decided to lower the city’s property tax rate next year.But, that means they had less money to work with in the city budget, so they had to use some creative thinking to cover costs.
  At a meeting Wednesday night, the Assembl
  
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• Shell abandons North Slope oil leases, raising questions about the industry’s future in Alaska

  24-05-2024 00:59 via ktoo.org
  
  A Shell station in Anchorage. (Photo by Nathaniel Herz/Northern Journal)
  Imagine, for a moment, that you’re the head of a publicly traded oil company.
  In your corner office, a team of executives has come to pitch you on a new, possibly lucrative drilling opportunity. It’s in a relatively politically stable country; the local tax regime is reasonable, if not generous. Other companies have found huge deposits in the area, and your own geologists are telling you that there’s likel
  
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• A Juneau inventor wants to bring ocean energy to your outlets

  24-05-2024 00:42 via ktoo.org
  
  Lance McMullen tests an early prototype of his tidal generator in Juneau in October 2023. (Photo by Anna Canny/KTOO)https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/23tidalecon-pkg.wav
  Inventor Lance McMullen has a beautiful house on Douglas Island. But he spends almost all of his time in the garage. 
  On one side of the room there’s camping gear, a set of winter tires and a small couch. On the other, an enormous 3D printer and dozens of boxes and garbage bags filled with pieces of br
  
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• Bronson concedes Anchorage mayoral race to LaFrance

  23-05-2024 23:51 via ktoo.org
  
  Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson speaking during the Anchorage Mayoral Debate in the Alaska Public Media building on Thursday, May 2, 2024. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media)
  Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson has conceded to challenger Suzanne LaFrance in the city’s runoff mayoral election.
  “As I transition out of office, I am committed to ensuring a smooth transition to Mayor-Elect LaFrance and her team,” Bronson said in a statement Thursday.
  His concession comes two days after LaFranc
  
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• Eaglecrest Ski Area general manager resigns at board’s request

  23-05-2024 20:22 via ktoo.org
  
  Eaglecrest Ski Area Manager Dave Scanlan speaks during an Assembly finance meeting on Saturday, April 6, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  The general manager of Juneau’s Eaglecrest Ski Area, Dave Scanlan, resigned from his role Wednesday night at the request of the ski area’s board. 
  The announcement came Thursday morning after the board held a special meeting on Wednesday to evaluate Scanlan’s performance. His resignation came after the board met in an executive session.
  The b
  
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• 6 key facts about abortion laws and the 2024 election

  23-05-2024 19:26 via ktoo.org
  
  
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  In the nearly two years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, abortion access has been in an almost constant state of flux.
  State laws keep changing – with new bans taking effect in some places while new protections are ena
  
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• Peltola sponsors a bill to limit salmon bycatch. The pollock industry calls it ‘unworkable.’

  23-05-2024 18:58 via ktoo.org
  
  Rep. Mary Peltola in her Washington, D.C. office. (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media)
  Alaska Congresswoman Mary Peltola introduced two bills Wednesday that aim to deliver on one of her campaign themes: Reducing the number of salmon that the Bering Sea fishing fleet catches by accident.
  One of the bills would curtail the use of fishing nets that scrape sensitive parts of the sea floor. It would require regional fisheries management councils to designate bottom trawl zones and limit that kind of fish
  
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• Meet Scott Kendall, father of Alaska’s ranked choice voting and lightning rod for the right

  23-05-2024 18:51 via ktoo.org
  
  Attorney Scott Kendall at his office in downtown Anchorage. (Matt Faubion/Alaska Public Media)
  Anchorage attorney Scott Kendall can’t believe the names he’s called.
  “Yeah, ‘the Soros-funded, Marxist attorney,’ — and I’m not Marxist. Obviously. That’s an anti- Semitic trope,” Kendall said recently. “I’m not funded by George Soros. Never met him. Never met anyone associated with him.”
  Kendall, 49, is at the center of two hot p
  
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• Juneau Afternoon: ‘Our Past, Our Present, Our Voices’ multigenerational Indigenous art show to open June 5

  23-05-2024 03:23 via ktoo.org
  
  Poster Image for “Our Past, Our Present, Our Voices” produced by the Black and White Raven Company opening on June 5 at the Alaska Robotics Gallery.
  On today’s program:“Our Past, Our Present, Our Voices,” a multi-generational Indigenous art showOpening June 5 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Alaska Robotics on 134 N Franklin St. This exhibition will showcase the diverse talents of Indigenous artists spanning generations and art styles.
  Juneau Audubon Society and their summ
  
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• Newscast – Wednesday, May 22, 2024

  23-05-2024 03:01 via ktoo.org
  
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  In this newscast:One Juneau inventor hopes to tap into the power of the ocean with a small tidal generator that’s poised to hit the market next year,
  Alaska’s governor could soon sign a bill into law that would establish a task force to look into the economic crisis facing the state’s seafood industry, but one legislator said leaders missed an opportunity to give tribes a greater voice,
  Suzanne LaFrance
  
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