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Cybercorrespondent also seems extremely confused about Huna Totem cruise dock, which it places on Douglas Island AI-generated image supposedly showing tourists at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center, as published by Travel and Tour World on Thursday, July 9, 2026. By Mark Sabbatini Juneau Independent Editor’s note: AI Tries To Write The News is a regular feature intended to familiarize readers with what AI-generated news content looks like. The AI content should not be cons

Gunnels are small intertidal fish, very slender, bearing a long dorsal fin. They are unusually slimy; that mucus coat protects them from dehydration when the tide goes out. They can breathe air through the skin for hours.

Ingredients for spicy char-grilled Turkish meat patties. (Photo by Patty Schied) By Patty Schied Every country has its favorite methods of cooking ground meat. In Turkey, it is popular to mix ground beef or lamb with a variety of spices including cumin, paprika, Aleppo pepper, and black pepper while adding eggs, breadcrumbs, garlic and onion. They cook this meat mixture in a variety of ways: on the grill as kabobs, as meatballs in a spicy tomato sauce or even baked with mash

In the midst of trying to prepare for the coming jökulhlaup, there have been some bright spots.

AI Tries To Write The News is a weekly feature where a commercial AI blog tool is asked to write news stories about notable local events of the past week, with excerpts of the results provided.

One of the first questions we received from a newspaper supporter at the Independent’s first fundraiser in February was, “How can we help the Independent?”

The bottom line is we are going to run out of money if our situation doesn’t change.

For the Juneau Independent’s community picnic, I decided to make a brightly colored pasta salad full of vegetables, cheese and salami.

It’s the time when juvenile songbirds appear, fully fledged and flying well: crows, robins, hermit thrushes, juncos, etc. It’s also mosquito season — they found me as soon as I stepped out of the car to walk on the dike trail.

We are our fathers. To some extent we were shaped to function in our lives from their sometimes unseen actions of love and, of course, the times that are stuck on our faces in smiles much like one would magnetize a note to the refrigerator door. I often wonder how my father shaped my sporting life.

Rosemarie Alexander addresses attendees at a Juneau Independent fundraiser at TK Maguire's on Feb. 19, 2026. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Independent) (Editor’s note: The one-year anniversary of the Juneau Independent is Saturday, June 20. This is part of a series of articles focusing on the intent, to-date efforts and future plans of the nonprofit online local newspaper.) By Rosemarie Alexander Nearly 3,500 U.S. newspapers have closed since 2005, according to The State of Local

As I started on the dike trail, I noticed a few photographers all focused in one direction. Just then, I met some old friends who asked "Have you seen that flycatcher?" My response was "Flycatcher? What flycatcher?"