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  • Ski a kilometer to put more skis on Juneau youth

    scheduled for Sunday to coincide with the annual youth ski fundraiser CommuniSki at the Mendenhall Lake The Mendenhall Lake Campground will feature the campground 3-kilometer loop and the lake 6-kilometer “We will have music, food, a fire, and good cheer to keep folks logging the kilometers,” Knutson-Lombardo Keep an eye out for the finishing pop-up gathering at Mendenhall Lake. Montana Creek 6-km section; and 2-4 p .m. finish on the 9.5-km Mendenhall Campground and Lake.

  • People looking for their next meal express gratitude for Southeast Alaska Food Bank, worry about future as SNAP assistance disruption looms

    They need to open back the country up like it should be. Going to make it rough for a lot of people.”  He said he was coming on Thursday to “get what I can and make it last.”  (Jasz Garrett / Juneau Independent) Stiner said the food bank makes sure everybody gets what they need About 20 people were in line when the food bank began taking “orders” at 3 p.m. Thursday.

  • Learning by ‘trial by fire’: CCFR Chief Rich Etheridge recalls career after retirement announcement

    is an all-hazards fire department, meaning firefighters also respond to landslides, avalanches and floods Etheridge was the fire chief during the first major Suicide Basin glacial lake outburst in 2023. “We would take pickup trucks and we would go to people’s houses to get them out of the floodwaters,” People would be stuck on their car and then just couldn't wade through the floodwater. So, as far as floods, this was kind of one of the least impactful ones for us.”

  • With veto of HB 78, Gov. Dunleavy makes it clear who he serves

    Teachers do not even have access to Social Security or supplemental options like SSI. The pension system was a way to take care of public servants for making this choice.

  • Airport security fast-lane system known as CLEAR could be coming to Alaska

    Scott Kawasaki, D-Fairbanks, speaks Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, on the floor of the Alaska Senate. That includes CLEAR, a for-profit company that offers fast-lane service at airport security checkpoints lives their life on their phone, this would be a wonderful convenience that the administration would like

  • Journalist walking across the globe for last decade takes to the sea in Southeast Alaska

    National Geographic journalist Paul Salopek has been walking around the world since 2013. But now that he’s in Alaska, his main mode of transportation is about to change…(Read full story)

  • Tribal land managers wind up conference in Sitka

    resource protection environmental lab analyst, shows water sampling equipment, used in STA's traditional food more places for traditional knowledge keepers to share; people want to learn and respect them...It makes Across the United States, tribes manage 140,625 square miles of land and lakes, including more than 10,000 Village of Eklutna, Chickaloon Village Traditional Council, Central Council of Tlingit and Haida, Healy Lake Six other regional NAFWS conferences are held annually; this week, there's a Great Lakes regional conference

  • Flamingos flock for FIFA 

    (Laurie Craig / Juneau Independent) By Laurie Craig Juneau Independent Auke Lake’s fanciful flamingo Over the years, friends and strangers have dropped off their spare pink lawn birds until the Auke Lake Hanselman, Shotwell and their neighbors are also responsible for another Auke Lake tradition: the frozen lake’s tripod that mimics the famous Nenana Ice Classic with rewards for guessing the exact date when the tripod falls over as the lake ice thaws.

  • Don’t forget the basic ideals that really did make this country great

    But here we are, 250 years later, still fleshing out the promise implicit in documents like the Declaration equality, justice, and liberty for all, which I believe to be our true national mission, to which things like through unity rather than conformity: We succeed in working together, across all the diverse groups that make promise of freedom, justice and equality to all — before we forget the basic ideals that really did make

  • High gas prices likely to offset Trump’s tax cuts, study finds

    Gas prices are likely to remain elevated for some time, even if the war ends soon, because shipping and production have been disrupted and will take time to recover. Lower and middle-income households are likely to be hit particularly hard, because they receive lower "And it doesn't look like those tax refunds are going to be here to save them.” “They're making it work for now, but that can fall apart quite quickly.”

  • Women in conservation make waves at inaugural Women Loving Whales talk

    flukes nicknamed Women Loving Whales cofounders Chloe Brown, Sam Carmack and Rylee Landen introduce the "Making “They just make their own space, so that's really inspiring to us.”  Like many of the speakers, Suzie Teerlink acknowledged the question of “Why whales?” Their strategy is, ‘How do we build up to get off the sea floor so we can get nutrients that we can filter The problem has been exacerbated by warming seas driving anchovy populations, the whales’ main food source

  • Former Juneau principal convicted of assault after taking 60-day plea deal

    “I feel like he got off easy,” Heather said. She said since her son would have been expected to take a witness stand, she did not push taking Paul “That would have been really difficult, but I feel like he got off easy for what he did to my kid,” she “What makes this especially difficult to accept is that the assault was completely unprovoked,” Heather However, I truly wish I could go back and make a different decision in this case,” Paul said.

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