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letter Time to put partisanship aside and stand together as Alaskans by Governor Frank H. Murkowski - Wednesday
letter A Great Day for the U.S. by Walt Bolling - Wednesday
letter RE: Outraged hunter! by Ken Lewis - Wednesday
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photosKetchikan: Coast Guard boat crew rescues father and son - A Coast Guard boat crew rescued a father and son from cold Alaskan waters Tuesday afternoon after their sail boat capsized near Ketchikan.

Personnel at Coast Guard Station Ketchikan received a phone call at 1:23 p.m. from a Good Samaritan who reported seeing a sail boat capsize south of Ketchikan near Mountain Point.  Two rescue boat crews were dispatched from Station Ketchikan.  The rescue crews arrived on scene at 1:50 p.m. and pulled Steve Hales, 54, and his 21 year old son Josh, from the water.  Both men spent approximately one hour in the water. - More...
Wednesday - November 03, 2004

Alaska: Cheryl Adamson to head new Office of Citizenship Assistance - Cheryl Adamson, an Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development security analyst with a master's degree in social work, will lead the new Alaska Office of Citizenship Assistance (OCA), reporting directly to Labor Commissioner Greg O'Claray. - More...
Wednesday - November 03, 2004

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jpg Bob CiminelBob Ciminel: The New War Between the States - It's a shame the country couldn't use collaboration and compromise to prevent the Civil War. Each side in that four-year dispute claimed to be the injured party, but the war was much less complicated than originally thought. Long after it was over, two Civil War veterans at a 4th of July celebration were reminiscing about the War and the friends they lost. - More...
Wednesday - November 03, 2004

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photosThe State Capitol and Its Marble and keeping the capital in Juneau - A recent news item in the Anchorage daily paper mentioned that a group of Juneau boosters, chaired by Mayor Bruce Botelho, hope to build a new Alaska Capitol building to be leased to the state at completion. They call themselves the Capitol Planning Commission and expect to announce a nationwide design competition in November. A new Capitol building would replace Juneau's present six-story Art Deco treasure. The old six-story building, its imposing façade featuring four gracious marble columns quarried in Southeastern Alaska, is a stately structure matching the grandeur of the setting that is home to picturesque downtown Juneau. - Read the rest of this story by June Allen...
Wednesday - October 20, 2004

arrow A Legendary Mountain of Jade; Just one of Alaska's Arctic Wonders

arrow John Koel, Baker to Banker; An eccentric philanthropist

arrow Harold Gillam: A Tragic Final Flight; Ketchikan remembers the search

arrow Ketchikan's 'Fish House Tessie'; She was proud of the nickname

arrow Fairbanks: Golden Heart City; A story of its founding

arrow Remembering 'Swede' Risland (1915-1991);The town's most memorable logger

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