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National Public Radio foreign correspondent Peter Kenyon started a new assignment this year. After five years of working out of Cairo, Egypt covering the Middle East and North Africa, Kenyon has moved to Istanbul Turkey and is now reporting on Iran and the Persian Gulf for NPR. Kenyon has also reported for NPR from Jerusalem and throughout the Middle East, as well as Washington D.C. He got his start in public radio at KFSK in Petersburg and has a home here. Kenyon had some time off this fall and spent some of it in Alaska. He stopped by KFSK and spoke with Joe Viechnicki about his life in Turkey and his latest reporting assignment.

Neighborhood watches, parent support groups and a crackdown on kids access to alcohol and drugs – those were a few of the ideas that came out of a town hall meeting in Petersburg this week on youth alcohol and drug abuse. Petersburg Mental Health Services organized the forum in response to an increase in medical emergencies for kids drinking and continued parent frustration with the problem.

A committee looking into ways to revitalize the commercial fishing industry in Petersburg last week continued to refine a long list of ideas for marine support services, education and capital construction. The committee wants to come up with recommendations for the Petersburg City Council later this fall.

The Inter-Island Ferry Authority’s vessel Stikine was damaged while leaving the terminal in Hollis on Prince of Wales Island Thursday morning.

The state says Southeast fishermen should see a much bigger harvest of pink salmon next summer. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is forecasting a harvest that would more than double the catch from 2010.