For the last twenty years, the non-profit Juneau Lighthouse Association has worked hard to preserve one of Alaska’s first lighthouses, Five Finger Light. With a tighter budget and cutbacks this year, the organization needed a special kind of family to look after this remote landmark. And they found them.
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Commercial salmon trollers in Southeast Alaska have their first king opening of the summer season Saturday, July 1st. For the summer season, the fleet has an allocation of 90,000 Chinook managed under the Pacific Salmon Treaty between the U.S. and Canada. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is seeking to target 70 percent of that, or 63,000 treaty kings in the first of two possible openings.
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The Clausen Museum collection includes treasures like the world record King salmon and a Frensel lens lighthouse light. Yet, the local museum’s humble beginnings started with some in-home gathering. The Clausen Museum will hold an open house July 1, 5-7 p.m. to celebrate the anniversary.
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The rainy, cool weather in Southeast Alaska this month is likely to continue in the near future, despite a short break in the showers expected this week. That might mean a little later and less sweet year for wild berries.
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A pair of arctic explorers and authors are preparing their vessel in Petersburg’s North Harbor this summer, getting ready for their next trip through the Northwest Passage.
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A charitable giving foundation in Petersburg awarded 14,000 dollars in grants to eight local non-profit organizations in May.
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Izabelle Ith holds a long list of state titles in track and field and has two regional records in the long jump and triple jump. She will be attending college in the fall at Williams College where she will competed in track and field. She’s receiving financial aid from Williams to attend the $75,000 a year school.
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The Petersburg harbor was a hive of activity and excitement in mid-June. Commercial fishermen scrambled to get everything done for the opening of the Southeast Dungeness crab season and salmon purse seine and drift gillnet fisheries.
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