Thursday
September 23, 2004
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Ketchikan: Listen to this KRBD story... Ketchikan School
Board Candidates sounded off on a wide range of subjects during
a Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce luncheon Wednesday. As Deanna
Garrison reports, there are three candidates running for three
open seats on the School Board this municipal election.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- September 23, 2004
Alaska: Subsistence
Halibut Harvest Report Completed - Wednesday, the Alaska
Department of Fish and Game, Division of Subsistence, completed
a 2003 subsistence harvest technical report for the National
Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). - More...
Thursday - September 23, 2004
Alaska: Legislation
would posthumously grant a Congressional gold medal to honor
Elizabeth and Roy Peratrovich - In an effort to provide long
overdue recognition to two leaders of Alaska's Native civil rights
movement - Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich and her husband Roy
Peratrovich - Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Wednesday unveiled
legislation to posthumously grant a Congressional gold medal
to honor their contributions to the nation's civil rights effort.
- More...
Thursday - September 23, 2004
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Alaska: Listen to this KRBD story... Hemlock and
yellow cedar from Alaska have their own special designation recently
approved by the American Lumber Standards Committee. As Deanna
Garrison reports, the Ketchikan Wood Technology Center says the
new standards will result in higher prices for Alaska timber.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- September 23, 2004
Alaska: Fairweather
Back in Service Thursday - After undergoing temporary repairs
for minor damage sustained in an incident Tuesday in Skagway,
the state's fast vehicle ferry M/V Fairweather will return
to its most recently published schedule on Thursday, with a sailing
leaving Juneau at 7:00 a.m. to Sitka. It will sail from Sitka
at 1:00 p.m. - More...
Thursday - September 23, 2004
Alaska: Coast
Guard helicopter crews, others search for missing float plane,
occupants for third day - Coast Guard helicopter crews, assisted
by the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) and Good Samaritan teams, on Wednesday
continued to a search for a charter float plane and its five
occupants missing since Monday afternoon. - More...
Thursday - September 23, 2004
Craig: Listen to this KRBD story... The clerk of
the Craig District Court will be the new magistrate. Kay Clark
will replace Magistrate Chris Ellis who stepped down after fifteen
years to become the Wrangell Magistrate. Jay Marble has this
report.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- September 23, 2004
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Glaciologist Austin
Post took this
photo of McCall Glacier in 1958.
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Alaska: Arctic
glacier photos worth a thousand words by Ned Rozell - Before
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge existed, the northeast corner
of Alaska drew scientists' interest with a resource more obvious
than oil-the ice held within the mountains high above the coastal
plain,
In 1958, glaciologist Austin
Post took a snapshot of McCall Glacier, one of a handful of Brooks
Range glaciers, and stored the negatives from his trip in a shoebox.
In 2003, Matt Nolan printed Post's photo of McCall Glacier and
carried it on a trip north. After landing on the glacier and
setting up a base camp, Nolan, an associate research professor
at UAF's Water and Environmental Research Center, hiked for six
hours up side drainages until he found the same spot where Post
stood. Nolan took a shot with his tiny digital camera and captured
a solid argument for climate change in the Arctic. When compared
to Post's photo, Nolan's shows an impressive ice loss in the
45 years that elapsed between clicks of the shutter. - More...
Thursday - September 23, 2004
Columnist
 Michael
Reagan: The
Death Of A Media Monopoly - The long reign of the liberal-dominated
old media is over, and Dan Rather and CBS gave it the coup de
grace.
It's been in its death throes
for quite a while, ever since talk radio and internet bloggers
and Fox News arrived on the scene and began to tell the other
and true - side of the stories the mainstream media had
been spiking or slanting leftward for decades. - More...
Thursday - September 23, 2004
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June Allen Column
 John
Koel, Baker to Banker; An eccentric philanthropist John Koel
was a well-known figure in Ketchikan from the day he arrived
in 1901 to the day he died in 1946. The eldest son of German
immigrants who settled in the Midwest, Koel was a 38-year-old
confirmed bachelor, a slight man with high cheekbones, a small
mustache and a tidy bankroll he had saved to finance his adventure
in Alaska. A baker by trade and already a canny businessman when
he alighted on the steamship dock, he quickly toured the new
city of Ketchikan and almost immediately opened the OK Bakery
on Dock Street, near the intersection with Main Street. - Read
the rest of this story by June Allen...
Tuesday - September 07, 2004
 Harold
Gillam: A Tragic Final Flight; Ketchikan remembers the search
Ketchikan's
'Fish House Tessie'; She was proud of the nickname
Fairbanks:
Golden Heart City; A story of its founding
Remembering
'Swede' Risland (1915-1991);The town's most memorable logger
Alaska's
Deepwater Highway; A part of Alaska history
Ketchikan's
American Legionnaires; Here's to 'the boys' of Post #3 -
Ketchikan's
Cruise Ship Industry; A light-hearted look at its origins
Ketchikan's
First City Players; Did you hear that applause?
A
biography of Alaska's herring: A little fish of huge importance...
Read more stories by June Allen...
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