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Students across the Ketchikan School District recently celebrated the 100th day of school with various activities. Houghtaling first graders Luisa Orta and Sharayah Taylor take a break from counting, grouping and sorting. Front Page Photo by Mark O'Brien - More...
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Alaska: Conference
of Alaskans Wraps Up Business - The Conference of Alaskans
wrapped up business Thursday, bringing to an end three days of
deliberations in Fairbanks regarding the Permanent Fund. - Gov.'s
Statement, Delegate's Letter to Fellow Alaskans & Resolutions... Ketchikan: Ketchikan Photographers Featured in New Museum Exhibit - Exquisite photographs by some of Ketchikan's finest photographers are the subject of the Tongass Historical Museum's latest exhibition. View Finders: Ketchikan's Photographers will open on Friday, February 20. Shelley Stallings, of the Ketchikan
Museum Department, is the show's curator. He invited many of
the community's most accomplished photographers to submit their
work, finally selecting more than seventy photographs for exhibition.
Thirty-two photographers are represented, including outstanding
photography students from Ketchikan High School and UAS-Ketchikan.
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And the heroine who survived it There is a desolate island
in the Chukchi Sea on the frigid top of the planet. It is 83
miles north of the coast of Siberia and it is named Wrangel Island
- Wrangel with one L. It is roughly kidney-shaped and said to
be about 80 miles long and 18 to 30 miles across, with a cluster
of low mountains at its center. During the warmth of its very
brief summer, rivers flow north and south over rolling tundra
to the sea. Along the frosty riverbanks are buried the bones
of a race of woolly mammoths, evidence of dwarfed survivors of
a larger race of Russian Steppe mammoths of perhaps 20,000 or
30,000 years ago. The island today is inhabited by a tiny Russian-Eskimo
settlement and is largely visited by polar bears, seals, foxes,
ducks and geese and the occasional scientist from around the
world. - Read
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