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SitNews - Stories In The News - Ketchikan, Alaska
Thursday
January 06, 2011

Front Page Photo by ROSY RIGLEY

Tongass Narrows
Taken on Dec. 28th from the South Tongass area by Totem road.
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Alaska: Mat-Su Pretrial Escapee Captured – After a six-hour multi-agency manhun Wednesday, Mat-Su Pretrial Escapee Kent C. Matte was successfully taken into custody without incident.

Mat-Su Pretrial Escapee Captured

Mat-Su Pretrial Facility - Palmer, Alaska
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Matte, a convicted felon and considered to be dangerous, escaped from the Palmer-based Mat-Su Pretrial Facility recreation yard at 8:05 Wednesday morning. Law enforcement officials were able to track Matte to a residence near the intersection of the Parks Highway and Stanley Road where Matte was apprehended trying to flee a house as law enforcement surrounded the premise. Matte was apprehended at approximately 2:30 Wednesday afternoon.

Troopers arrested one other individual in connection to Matte's escape. Kosha Lynae Jacob, 22 of Wasilla, was arrested Wednesday night for her involvement as an accomplice. She was charged with Escape in the Second Degree as an Accomplice and Hindering Prosecution. Her bail was set at $5,000 cash only. - More...
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Alaska: Governor Outlines Strategy to Fight Federal Overreach – In a speech before hundreds attending the Rotary Club of Fairbanks, Governor Sean Parnell today focused on how recent federal restrictions have crippled resource development and blocked jobs for Alaskans. From the offshore drilling moratorium, to ocean zoning, to the effort to lock up the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, the governor outlined numerous ways Washington is encroaching on Alaska’s sovereignty in developing its natural resources.

“What the federal government owns, it regulates. And, what it doesn’t own, it seeks to control – by regulatory mandate,” Governor Parnell said. “For our economy, it’s death by a thousand cuts.”

The governor said job creators in Alaska and across the country face a tough battle. He called on Alaskans to stand together, build alliances outside the state, and fight to force the federal government back into its constitutional limits. - More...
Thursday PM - January 06, 2011

 

Southeast Alaska: Vessel refrigeration workshop training for fishermen offered - Top quality Alaska seafood products begins with properly chilling the catch aboard vessels at sea. To help commercial fishermen improve their operation and maintenance of onboard marine refrigeration systems, the Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program is partnering with Integrated Marine Systems, Inc., to offer a one-day workshop February 1, 2011, in Petersburg.

The workshop will focus on how to maintain, operate, and troubleshoot onboard refrigeration equipment. Additional topics include refrigeration theory, system winterization, controller programming, refrigeration safety, and system sizing. Participants will use a marine refrigeration training unit for hands-on activities. - More...
Thursday PM - January 06, 2011

Alaska: Father, Son Plead Guilty to Big Game Guiding Violations in Brooks Range – A father and son pleaded guilty in Anchorage District Court Tuesday to misdemeanor violations involving big game guiding in the Brooks Range in 2007. Michael C. Vanning Jr., 42, of Washington, was convicted of taking his clients to hunt where he couldn’t legally conduct hunts because the area was registered under his father, Michael H. Vanning Sr., 62, of Idaho.

The elder Vanning was convicted of falsifying records that deceptively showed he guided these hunting trips. In order to prevent an over-harvest of game and an overcrowding of hunters, Alaska law prohibits big game guides from registering and operating in more than three guide use areas at a time. The younger Vanning was essentially operating in six guide use areas by using his father’s three areas as well as his own, giving him an unfair competitive advantage over other lawfully operating guide businesses.

The case was initiated by a Fairbanks-based Alaska Wildlife Trooper who contacted the younger Vanning and his guiding business employees near Chandalar Lake in August of 2007 after receiving a complaint of an aircraft harassing sheep. - More...
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Alaska Science: Mummified forest tells tale of a changing north By NED ROZELL - Mummified forest tells tale of a changing north By NED ROZELL - Two summers ago, Joel Barker was measuring gases wafting from the tundra on Ellesmere Island in Canada’s far north. One day he took a break from his duties to check out a report from a warden stationed there at Canada’s northernmost national park - in a land that has not hosted trees for thousands of years, the warden had seen some wood protruding from mud near a glacier.

An outcropping of mummified tree remains on Ellesmere Island in Canada. A melting glacier revealed the trees, which were buried by a landslide 2 to 8 million years ago.
Photos by Joel Barker, courtesy of Ohio State University

Barker, a researcher at Ohio State University, took a helicopter ride to a U-shaped valley that was home to a few musk oxen and ankle-high willows. There, the warden led him to a dirty pile of roots and small gray logs.

“It was surreal,” Barker said in December 2010 during a press conference held at the American Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting in San Francisco. “I had been very skeptical.”

He and the warden gathered a few samples of the wood and then jumped on the helicopter after being on the ground less than one hour. On the ride back to his base camp, Barker felt the flush of discovery. - More...
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letter Revilla Road Problems By Ken Arriola - A couple of things; the front page photos submitted by locals are incredible, simply the best, one of the reasons I look forward to logging-on daily to Sitnews, much more interesting than that other publication, keep those photos coming.

Personally, and without knowing the exact details, I'm willing to cut the State Troopers some slack on this Ward Lake/Revilla road issue, since jurisdiction on that road has been an ongoing bone of contention. And, as a result, it doesn't surprise me that a level of frustration may exist on the State Troopers' part. - More...
Friday AM - January 07, 2011

letter AMERICA DEFEATED By David G. Hanger - So easy is xenophobia, so easy self-justification, so easily the dead treadmill to those about to die, each corpse robed as hero sublime, beckoning, ever beckoning, for more and more to follow his lead. How long this time this column of lemmings? - More...
Friday AM - January 07, 2010

letter TO “CONFUSED” By David G. Hanger - The type of confusion you are experiencing is a self-limiting, and pathetic, condition that has no known cure. I certainly make no claim to having discovered one. - More...
Friday AM - January 07, 2010

letterFerry ski-high rates By Jay L Baldwin - Two thirds of the Alaskan voters or more live in the Northlands. -- Southeast Alaska was supposed to get a marine highway system to serve the needs of the Alaskan people. Wrong. We have a marine highway system that Alaskans cannot afford. Someone, at some point back in time lost sight of the objective. A highway is supposed to be free. At first fees were very low. But not now. - More...
Wednesday PM - January 05, 2011

letter Lack of enthusiasm? By Kim Hendricks Just a thought, if we continue to keep our eyes closed to what is happening in this community, shame on us. I do not wish to re-live the day that my young one and his friend and even younger sister were outside playing when a car almost ran them over on a dead end street. The driver was in a hurry so that they could take care of someone in another house in their own brutal way. - More...
Wednesday PM - January 05, 2011

letterThank You By Kathie Johnson - I just would like to thank Mrs. Chaudhary's daughters for their care for others. - More...
Wednesday PM - January 05, 2011

letter You too are on your own By Katherine Alguire - I have to agree with the public on this one. If you are in distress and TRYING to flag down the law, they should stop and offer some assistance. The trooper should have asked himself, "why are they trying to get my attention" and offered some assistance, whether it be a radio call or some one blocking off the road. Did the Trooper know that no-one was hurt? Did the Trooper by some chance know all who were down that road were all okay? He never investigated. - More...
Wednesday PM - January 05, 2011

letter RE: Alaska State Trooper Bashing By Art Bailly - Wow Mr. Willis, it sounds like you're one of those troopers. 1. What does this have to do with a vehicle accident (Vehicle in the ditch and icy road conditions)? Don’t try to change the subject. One has nothing to do with the other. - More...
Wednesday PM - January 05, 2011

letter Alaska State Trooper Bashing By Scott Willis - How is it the fault of the Alaska State Troopers for a 16 year old delinquent girl that has no self discipline or personal morals and requires RYC custody for behavior training? - More...
Tuesday - January 04, 2011

letter Aircraft Carriers Unavailable By Donald A. Moskowitz - This letter references numerous points in Steve Cohen’s article in Forbes of October 25, 2010 entitled “Where Are The Carriers?”, which concerns the availability, value, and number of U.S. aircraft carriers. - More...
Tuesday - January 04, 2011

letter Open Letter: Economic Development By Kurtis R. Morin - I understand that certain members of the Ketchikan Assembly have expressed a preference for confining the borough's economic development program solely to infrastructure projects. - More...
Monday - January 03, 2011

letter RE: State troopers not wanting to get involved By Gary Keele - As a parent here in Ketchikan I can understand the absolute concern about the Troopers Not wanting to get involved and being rude. I have a 16 year old daughter that is in RYC Again ( Thank You Jack for all you have done for us). - More...
Monday - January 03, 2011

letter America is being held hostage By Martha Leftwich - American voters were angry when they went to the polls November 2, 2010, many didn't bother to even cast their vote at all. - More...
Monday - January 03, 2011

letter Confused By Laura Plenert - Regarding David Hanger's harangue, bless you Lesley for being able to understand what David Hanger is spouting about. It is difficult to wade through his diatribe and get the point. - Page...
Monday - January 03, 2011

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