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Monday
September 23, 2013
Murphy's Landing Sunset
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Fish Factor: Development of Pebble Mine not eliminated by Anglo-American plans to withdraw By LAINE WELCH - News that mining giant Anglo-American plans to withdraw from the Pebble Mine project was greeted with joy by opponents who hailed it as a victory for the people of Bristol Bay and for the region’s resources.
Pebble would be the largest gold and copper mine in North America, and its location looms over the world’s biggest sockeye salmon fishery at Bristol Bay. But even though London-based Anglo has pulled out of the Pebble Partnership, Northern Dynasty Minerals of Canada still remains. And they insist the project is still very much alive.
“This does not eliminate development of Pebble Mine,” said Bob Waldrop, director of the Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association that is funded and operated by more than 1,800 salmon fishermen. This just means we’re back to Northern Dynasty, which is where we were before Anglo came in several years ago. Northern Dynasty will shop around and in all likelihood will find another partner. So we are not going to rest on this news.”
Northern Dynasty, which in 2001 launched the Pebble project, takes over sole ownership of all the mining claims. Unlike Anglo American, which is one of the world’s biggest mining companies, Northern Dynasty has never operated a mine. - More...
Monday - September 23, 2013
Alaska: U.S. MARSHALS ARREST MAN WANTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING RESULTING IN THE DEATH OF A 14 YEAR OLD GIRL - An Alaskan resident wanted on an outstanding federal warrant was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Alaska Fugitive Task Force late Friday night.
Max Raymond Jewett, 36, was being sought on a warrant issued on August 23, 2013, by the U.S. District Court. Jewett has been federally indicted for charges of Drug Trafficking Conspiracy Resulting in Death and Serious Bodily Injury and for Distribution of Heroin Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury and Death. The charges stem from an incident occurring on or about December 23, 2011, where defendants Sean Michael Warner and Max Raymond Jewett allegedly distributed controlled substances which resulted in the death of a 14 year old girl. - More...
Monday - September 23, 2013
Alaska: REGISTERED NURSE AND DISBARRED ATTORNEY ADMIT STEALING OVER TWO MILLION DOLLARS FROM ELDERLY WOMAN’S ESTATE - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that registered nurse, Brian Ben-Israel, and disbarred California attorney Philip Eric Myers, have pled guilty to mail fraud and wire fraud charges.
Ben-Israel, 53, formerly of Anchorage, Alaska, pled guilty to mail fraud, wire fraud and filing a false tax return on September 16, 2013. Philip Eric Myers, 61, of Santa Barbara, California, pled guilty to mail fraud and wire fraud charges on September 20, 2013. Both Myers and Ben-Israel admitted to Chief U.S District Court Judge Ralph R. Beistline that they devised a scheme to obtain in excess of $2 million dollars between May 2007 and August 2009 from the trusts of Juanita Gielarowski, now deceased.
According to court documents, Ben-Israel was a registered nurse residing in Anchorage and working at Meridian Psychiatric Consulting Group. Myers was an attorney licensed in the State of California and was versed in trust and estate matters. In 2004, Ben-Israel was a business partner and friend of Myers.
Ben-Israel met and befriended Ms. Juanita Gielarowski and her daughter, Linda Stowers, who were both patients of Meridian Psychiatric Consulting Group. Ben-Israel became a health care provider and “financial advisor” to both. Ben-Israel introduced Myers to Stowers and Gielarowski. - More...
Monday - September 23, 2013
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Alaska: New dinosaur site discovered along Yukon River By Theresa Bakker - University of Alaska Museum of the North researchers have found a major new site for dinosaur fossils in Alaska along the Yukon River.
Hind foot print of an herbivorous dinosaur.
Photo by Pat Druckenmiller
A recent trip netted about 2,000 pounds of dinosaur footprints for the museum’s collection, according to earth sciences curator Pat Druckenmiller “There aren’t many places left in the world where paleontologists can just go out and find thousands of dinosaur footprints. This is the kind of discovery you would have expected in the Lower 48 a hundred years ago.”
In July 2013, researchers set off in boats for a 500-mile journey down the Tanana and Yukon rivers. Co-discoverer Kevin May, operations manager at the UA Museum of the North, says the goal was to explore as many beaches as possible for evidence of dinosaurs. “Based on what we know about the geology along the Yukon River, the rocks exposed downriver from Ruby suggested they might be a good place to find dinosaurs”.
They found much more than they expected: dinosaur footprints big and small, from both meat- and plant-eaters.
“We found a great diversity of dinosaur types,” Druckenmiller said, “evidence of an extinct ecosystem we never knew existed.”
Paul McCarthy, Druckenmiller’s colleague from the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, says the trip was amazing.
“We found dinosaur footprints by the scores on literally every outcrop we stopped at,” he said. “I’ve seen dinosaur footprints in Alaska now in rocks from southwest Alaska, the North Slope, and Denali National Park in the Interior, but there aren’t many places where footprints occur in such abundance.” - More...
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Ketchikan: Meth Delivery Results in Arrest of Ketchikan Woman - Friday afternoon, Ketchikan Detectives arrested Teresa R. Redman, age 56 of Ketchikan, after working with a U.S. Postal Inspector and completing a controlled mail delivery in the area of Roosevelt Drive, south of Ketchikan.
The investigation revealed Redman allegedly had a package with approximately seven grams of methamphetamine sent to her residence. - More...
Monday - September 23, 2013
Columns - Commentary
 DAVE KIFFER: When Fishticuffs Break Out - A couple of local Alaska Grrrrls got into a tiff recently.
I’m not sure what it was about exactly, maybe one of the grrls said something disparaging about the other’s salmon dip.
Or perhaps, it was an argument over not returning the other grrls extra tufs promptly.
I hope it wasn’t over some guy.
I mean, really, in this land where nearly all the “goods are odd” any guy is just not worth coming to fisticuffs over. Ketchikan is the sort of place where a lot of people are actually grateful when someone steals their significant other.
At any rate, whatever they were arguing about probably wasn’t nearly as silly as the two guys in Russia who just this week got into a little gunplay when they argued about Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason” while beer drinking one night.
Since no one got seriously wounded I suspect that at least one of the argumentors must have been shot in his "a posteriori" knowledge. Go figure.
But, as usual, I digress.
Anyway, we don’t usually pay too much attention to mutual combat in K-town. After all, this is the community that a prominent local artist proudly hails as the “Home of Recreational Fighting.”
But when the party of the first part uses a “fish” to flog the party of the second part upside of the face, well, it does get one’s attention.
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 Protect & Serve? By Kathy Evans - About a month ago I wrote an opinon and it was posted on Sitnews. Thank you. I heard many positive reponses from it. It was titled "Soliers of the Cross Ammor Up!" Thank you. I also want to thank all those who came to Jesse's Celebration of Life. The sun shone brightly that day and I am confident he was with us. Those people continue to support our family through the hardest time in our lives. We miss Jesse so much words cannot begin to say. I am only comforted to know that he is with his Lord, finally safe and at peace. He will always be with us in our hearts. He was a kind and gentle soul. He was 38 when he died. - More...
Wednesday - September 18, 2013
Subject of defunding ObamaCare By A. M. Johnson -
Never doubt the power of the press!! After not hearing within a reasonable amount of time to a requested response from Representative Don Young on the subject of defunding ObamaCare, a letter dated 9/16/03 was sent to Representative Young in the format of an email with a copy of same submitted to your fine publication for public consumption reflecting the frustration of being ignored. The following letter was received via email within hours on 9/16/13. I submit that having the subject presented to your publication was the emphasis to Representative Young's response. Please draw your own indidvual conclusion to the content. - More...
Wednesday - September 18, 2013
Can we really afford to spend this much money on a hospital? By Ed Plute -
Don't want Obama care? What about Ketchicare? This, is how we can avoid that forced healthcare. We the taxpayers have been supporting a non-profit hospital for years. Each and everyone of us have been taxed to support that hospital. - More...
Wednesday - September 18, 2013
Middle East Equilibrium By Donald A. Moskowitz - To foster world stability, it is in the best interest of the U.S. to promote equilibrium in the Middle East. - More...
Wednesday - September 18, 2013
In The Tongass, Every Job Counts By Governor Sean Parnell -
The story of America includes starting a business and passing that entrepreneurial spirit on to your children. Whether it was a farm, a hardware store, or something else, America was built by these kinds of family enterprises, and family businesses still power Alaskan opportunity. - More...
Thursday PM - September 12, 2013
Vote yes! on KMC By Sheri Boehlert -
As a school administrator, my days are spent planning and facilitating all that needs to happen to make sure our kids get the best education possible and how to best support our teachers in that goal. As a member of the Ketchikan Medical Center's Board of Governors, I've witnessed firsthand administrators and staff thoughtfully striving to meet another complex goal ensuring each person in our community has access to the widest array of high-quality health care possible, right here in Ketchikan. - More...
Thursday PM - September 12, 2013
Library Funding By Agnes Moran - At the September 5, 2013 Ketchikan City Council meeting, Matt Olsen made many assertions regarding Borough participation in the capital costs for the new library, that to use Mr. Olsen's own words "quite frankly were not true". - More...
Thursday PM - September 12, 2013
Re: The Myth Of Intact Watersheds By Duane Hill -
When I first lived in the Stockton, CA area, there were no salmon in the rivers. The rivers were dry in late summer. This was normal as the rivers were not year round waterways, 100 years ago they only had water when there was run off from the Sierras. - More...
Wednesday AM - September 12, 2013
The Myth Of Intact Watersheds By Eric Muench -
Heather Hardcastle's August 29 letter of advice to Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell was completely misleading on one important point. While the salmon resource is indeed a very important part of the Southeast economy, it definitely does not depend on "intact watersheds". - More...
Wednesday AM - September 11, 2013
Baffled by Parnell’s Recent Actions By Bill Walker -
Recent decisions by the Parnell Administration have left many Alaskans, including myself, scratching our heads wondering if anyone is at the helm. - More...
Wednesday AM - September 11, 2013
Observation from the road & home By A.M. Johnson - Having returned to K-town from a vacation drive through British Columbia, observations are in order. We first departed Prince Rupert driving to Prince George. The first several miles, 20 or so, were through fields of "Tansy" road side coming and going. No concern by our contact with various Canadians asked about the drought of dead cows, moose, or other wild life as a result of this plant being allowed to run wild. Just the normal common shrug of the shoulders followed by the required heed to the bountiful industrial active that warrants the clapping of hands for "Job well Done". - More...
Wednesday AM - September 11, 2013
Ketchikan Performing Arts Center By Lallette Kistler - I addressed the Borough Assembly Tuesday night about the fact that the Legislative Lobbying committee ignored the Ketchikan Performing Arts Center project last week, and I thought the greater community might be interested in what I had to say. It didn't make sense that we were their #1 and the community's #4 last year, but this year we weren't even going to be numbered at all. - More...
Saturday - September 07, 2013
Agree With Kiffer, No Nightmare By Keith Stump -
Having been a passenger on the Millennium when it had to return to Ketchikan due to mechanical difficulties to one of its electric propulsion motors, it was interesting to hear and read about the trip cancellation and other passenger responses. My take is that much ado was made about not much by the news media. - More...
Saturday - September 07, 2013
Syria - Count The Cost By Glenn Mollette - The President and Congress will make the decisions when it comes to Syria. They and military leadership have far more information than I. However, we will not go into Syria, throw our rocks and run back home unscathed. The scathing may occur immediately or weeks or months later. - More...
Saturday - September 07, 2013
Obama's war in Syria By Marvin Seibert -
War on Syria, here we are going to use Guided Missiles, B52 and B1 bombers and up to 75,000 troops on the ground. Our Delusional Narcissistic President is trying to save face by putting our troops in harm's way. What arrogance, he now says he did not draw a red line -- video does not lie. What else do you need to know that our President is incapable of decisions and taking responsibility for anything! - More...
Saturday - September 07, 2013
RE: Let's prioritize wild Alaska salmon By Lois Morgan -
Hooray, Heather. Your phrase 'the countries preeminent salmon forest' totally rang my bell. I've never heard or seen it, and it is just so apt I hooted out loud. I've been needing this phrase. - More...
Saturday - September 07, 2013
WHAT IS YOUR POINT? By David G. Hanger -
Exactly what is your point, Laura Plenert? You refer to the murder of an Australian student athlete in Oklahoma, a case of which I am quite aware, as somehow racially motivated. All in fact you are doing when you do that is parrot the nonsensical and racist views of Rush Limbaugh and Matt Drudge, who are the only individuals stupid enough and corrupt enough to attempt to use this case as a racial counterpoint to the Trayvon Martin case. While you are doing a fine job of parroting the views of your lords and masters, the facts of the case are quite a bit more problematical in that regard. How exactly do you get racial motivations out of this crime when one of the suspects is black, one is half-black and half-white, and the third is all white? - More...
Saturday - September 07, 2013
Parrot whiner By Karl Shlaudeman -
Well Mr. Hanger you might want to make sure that you are bleeding and hurt before you ever take appropriate action or defend yourself against a criminal. I truly wish all of you would wake up and realize there is no perfect world; white, black or whatever. - More...
Saturday - September 07, 2013
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