Juneau Independent

There could soon be two new faces in the Division of Forestry Haines office, with the division promoting longtime area forester Greg Palmieri to a regionwide management position, and hoping to hire a second forester position in Haines, spokesperson Lorraine Henry said last week.

Workers have started taking apart a 360-foot-long paddlewheel cruise ship at the scrap metal recycling operation at 6-Mile to possibly reuse the hull as a new downtown floating dock for cruise ships.

Tidal Network, a Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska program that’s building up cell towers and broadband connectivity in Southeast communities, is holding a public outreach session at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the ANB Founders Hall. 

Ship now expected to resume sailings on Dec. 17; possibility of extending Columbia on route under review.

A memo by the borough’s manager says the fire department’s actions do not require the agency’s leaders to be fired.

The U.S. Forest Service has awarded an unusual timber contract to supply Petersburg’s Alaska Timber and Truss with enough logs from Thomas Bay for several years of operation, while also improving moose and deer habitat.

Deer hunting in the greater Sitka-area Game Management Unit 4 is more efficient than anywhere in Alaska, and Alaska Department of Fish and Game data shows the Sitka area deer population is doing well.

Mayor Tom Morphet is proposing transferring the borough’s Tlingit Park property to the Chilkoot Indian Association. 

It was no surprise that everyone on the timber panel at this month’s Alaska Resource Development Council conference had the same message: The industry needs a larger supply of trees to cut.

State ferry officials on Monday were trying to work out a new early-December schedule after learning that the Kennicott will be delayed coming out of a yearlong layup at a Puget Sound shipyard for new generators and maintenance work.

Borough searching for sponsors to share additional costs of global big-terrain backcountry ski competition.

According to regulars, bingo around the valley has been mired in a bit of a downturn. In previous bingo heydays, an enthusiast could’ve gone to almost a game for each day of the week, or at least every other day of the week, said Larry Sweet, noted by fellow players as a bingo expert.