Tuesday
October 19, 2004
'Colors
of Fall'
Front Page Photo by Carl Thompson
 Alaska: Stevens
Speaks At Dedication of the Maritime Safety & Security Team
- Recently Alaska's senior U.S.Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska)
helped welcome a new Maritime Safety and Security Team (MSST)
to the Port of Anchorage. The mission of the Maritime Safety
and Security Teams is to provide waterborne and a modest level
of shoreside antiterrorism force protection for strategic shipping,
high interest vessels, and critical infrastructure. MSSTs are
a quick response force capable of rapid, nationwide deployment
via air, ground, or sea transportation in response to changing
threat conditions and evolving maritime homeland security mission
requirements. - More...
Tuesday - October 19, 2004
Alaska:
Trident Seafoods Corporation Agrees To Pay $18,000 Penalty for
Fish Waste Violations - The Northwest office of the Environmental
Protection Agency announced last week that Trident Seafoods Corporation,
which operates the Naknek Cannery in Naknek, Alaska has agreed
to pay $18,000 in penalties for violating the federal Clean Water
Act. - More...
Tuesday - October 19, 2004
Ketchikan: First
City Republican Women Opposes Ballot Measure 2, The Legalization
of Marijuana - The First City Republican Women (FCRW) announced
they have unanimously voted to oppose Ballot Measure No. 2 to
be voted on November 2, which, if passed, would legalize marijuana
in the state of Alaska. A statement from the FCRW said this is
a "PURE LEGALIZATION" measure that would allow anyone
21 years old and older the opportunity to possess, cultivate,
distribute or consume marijuana/hemp for medicinal, industrial
or recreational purposes without any criminal or civil penalty.
- More...
Tuesday - October 19, 2004
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Tsumani Damage in Kodiak
- 1964
Photo courtesy Alaska Sea Grant Program
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Alaska: Alaska
Killer Tsunamis Featured on AlaskaOne Public Television; Describes
tsunami warning system and how coastal residents should react...
More than 100 Alaskans were swept to their deaths when multiple
tsunamis hit Alaska shores after the 1964 earthquake. The magnitude
9.2 temblor was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in
North America. The tsunamis wiped out Valdez and destroyed much
of Seward, Kodiak, Whittier and other Alaska communities.
Forty years after that terrible
night, memories remain vivid for sourdough Alaskans who witnessed
the destruction. Some of their impressions will be shared on
Thursday, October 21 at 7:00 p.m. when Ocean Fury: Tsunamis in
Alaska, a half-hour documentary, airs statewide on AlaskaOne
Public Television. The program will be repeated on Sunday, October
24, at 2:00 p.m. The documentary was co-produced by the Alaska
Sea Grant College Program, the UAF Geophysical Institute Alaska
Earthquake Information Center, and the Alaska Division of Homeland
Security and Emergency Management. - More...
Tuesday - October 19, 2004
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A white crown sparrow
that researcher Niels Rattenborg captured in south Fairbanks.
Photograph by Niels Rattenborg.
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Alaska: Migrating
Alaska sparrows perform despite lack of sleep by Ned Rozell
- Each fall, white-crowned sparrows hop off branches in Alaska
and begin journeys toward warm winters in California, Arizona,
New Mexico and west Texas. On their trip of several weeks, flying
mostly at night, the tiny songbirds may cut back on their sleep
by two-thirds without crash landing. - More...
Tuesday - October 19, 2004
Columnists
 Bob
Ciminel - Fish or Cut Bait:
Does
it Really Matter? - I'm one of those weird persons who like
buttermilk. I acquired a taste for it in Fifth Grade. As a class
project, we took whole milk that had not been homogenized - I
assume it was pasteurized - put it in a butter churn and all
took turns mixing it until we ended up with buttermilk and butter.
We ate the butter with Saltine crackers and drank the buttermilk
in little paper cups. It was delicious. - More...
Tuesday - October 19, 2004
 Dick
Morris: The
L-Word Sticks - With only two weeks to go, President Bush
and his campaign demonstrated once again that they are playing
chess while Kerry is playing checkers.
In a feat of strategy worthy
of the greatest admiration, they realized that the entire race
would change complexion once the third debate kindled a focus
on domestic disagreements in what had been, until then, a foreign-policy
contest. - More...
Tuesday - October 19, 2004
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June Allen Column
A
Legendary Mountain of Jade; Just one of Alaska's Arctic Wonders
- Alaska is a state of superlatives. It is the nation's largest
state. We drive past or fly over America's highest mountain.
We can visit the nation's deepest cave on Prince of Wales Island,
admire the waters of our state's longest coastline and enjoy
the midnight sun's longest days. Most of us, however, will
never see our superlative example of the Alaska State Gem - jade.
That's because Jade Mountain, an entire mountain made of beautiful
dark green jade, is far from any Alaska road system. - More...
Tuesday - October 05, 2004
 John
Koel, Baker to Banker; An eccentric philanthropist
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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