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February 18, 2004
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Ketchikan's night lights as seen from the old Main School parking lot.. Front Page Photo by Carl Thompson
Ketchikan: Homeport for Fairweather Announced - The
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced today
that it has selected the former Tesora Fuel Terminal on South
Tongass Highway as the homeport site for the NOAA ship Fairweather.
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Ketchikan: Reward
Growing - Penny Marksheffel, President of the Ketchikan Education
Association, informed Sitnews Tuesday that KEA members, along
with a generous donation from Rob Skinner at Lewis Chevrolet,
have donated more than $1,400 to the reward for information leading
to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible
for the bomb threats to Ketchikan High School. - More...
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Ketchikan: 
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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