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Alaska: Education Meeting Discusses Federal Standards
- The House Special Committee on Education spent its first meeting
of the 23rd Alaska Legislature examining what the federal "No
Child Left Behind" Act will do to Alaska's education system.
Education Chair Representative Carl Gatto (R-Palmer) said the
Act affects all of the state's public schools. - Read more... Alaska: DHSS Commissioner Names Six Department Senior
Managers - Ron Adler of Ketchikan Named Supt. of Alaska
Psychiatric Institute -- Read more.... Alaska: Alaska Permanent Fund Initiative Petition Denied
- Lieutenant Governor Loren Leman today notified the sponsors
of an initiative petition proposing various changes to the administration
of the Alaska Permanent Fund that their petition was being rejected
because it oversteps the constitutional limits of initiatives.
- Read more... Alaska: NOAA Fisheries Reviewing Petition For Prince
William Sound Killer Whales - NOAA's
National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) has announced
it is reviewing a petition to designate the AT-1 killer whale
group of Prince William Sound as depleted under the Marine Mammal
Protection Act. - Read more...
Ketchikan: VideoVersity Series Kicks Off - From ordinary
men to bigger than life stars, Hollywood has created heroes in
all shapes and sizes. Explore the hero myth through film in the
University of Alaska Southeast Ketchikan's VideoVersity Film
Series this Spring. Hollywood's Take On The Hero is also being
offered as a one-credit class! - Read more...
Alaska: Murkowski Applauds President For Making Tough
Choices - Governor Frank H. Murkowski tonight said that President
George W. Bush's State of the Union address recognized the challenges
facing the nation, while acknowledging tough choices that must
be made to keep the Union strong. - Read more... USA: Text of the State of the Union Address by President
George W. Bush...
Alaska: Telemedicine reaches over 200 Alaska locations... Alaska: Murkowski Reorganizes Department of Corrections
- Governor Murkowski today directed the Department of Corrections
to be reorganized to streamline operations, realize efficiencies,
contain costs and improve the functions of the three divisions
within the department: institutions, probation and parole and
administrative services. -- Read more....
Ketchikan: Ketchikan woman pleads guilty to methamphetamine
charge ... Alaska: Murkowski outlines five-year plan for Alaska
- Gov. Frank Murkowski said he will reverse the state's hemorrhaging
budget deficits with belt tightening and new oil during his first
State of the State address to the Legislature on Thursday. ...
Fairbanks Daily News Miner - Read more...
Ketchikan: Ketchikan man indicted on child porn charge... Ketchikan: UAS Ketchikan Announces Chancellor's and Dean's
Lists...
Alaska: State's Unemployment
Climbs In December - Ketchikan's Unemployment 8.5 Up from
8.1%... Alaska: House Convenes 2003 Session - Fiscal Solutions
and Education Are Top Priorities...
Ketchikan: Texas fugitive arrested after scuffle in store...
Ketchikan: Fish board looks at Southeast herring fishery... Ketchikan: Fred Meyer eyes Ketchikan lot ... Ketchikan: University land transfer generates controversy
- Residents say sale was unadvertised and price too low...
Viewpoint: Alcan willing to discuss plans with any adjoining
land owners...by
Eric Nichols Ketchikan: UofA South Tongass
Land Sale Finalized - Local group to meet and discuss future
actions -- During a
telephone interview Thursday evening, Parker Smith, President
of 'Locals for Responsible Land Use', told Sitnews he had been
informed that the University of Alaska's sale of 145 acres stretching
from Mountain Point to Herring Cove was finalized... -- Read more...
Ketchikan: Samples Confirm Norovirus Outbreak Plagues Ketchikan
- The federal Centers for Disease Control identified the
virus from stool samples sent from Ketchikan in mid-December.
- Read more.... Ketchikan: Ketchikan Considers Cold Storage Facility
- Local fishing industry and government representatives are
honing a plan for community-owned cold storage in Ketchikan.
... Read more... Alaska: Governor Reorganizes Transportation Department
- Establishes Boards for Aviation and Marine Highways -- Governor
Murkowski on Wednesday directed the Alaska Department of Transportation
and Public Facilities to reorganize the management of the state's
aviation and marine highway systems to streamline operational
lines of authority, improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness
in the management of the department, and to provide better public
participation. - Read more...
Alaska: Alaskans Join Neighbors to Oppose B.C. Fish Farm
Expansion - Peaceful protests are planned today in several
countries at sites belonging to fish farm giant Pan Fish, as
well as the offices of its largest shareholder in Hamburg, Germany.
The focus of today's protest is construction of a large Atlantic
salmon hatchery in Ocean Falls, near Bella Coola, which is expected
to produce 10 million of the non-indigenous smolt each year and
stock many new farms in British Columbia.... Read more... Alaska: Governor's Inaugural Events -- Ketchikan
Inaugural Ball on Jan. 26: Ted Ferry Civic Center - Read more...
Alaska: Lt. Gov. Finds Cannabis Initiative Improperly
Filed - Lt. Governor Loren Leman today notified the
sponsors of an initiative petition, "An Act to decriminalize
and regulate cannabis (hemp including marijuana)" that the
petition was improperly filed due to a lack of qualified signatures.
- Read more... Ketchikan: One acquitted, one sentenced in child porn cases... Ketchikan: Log permit jams veneer plant suitors...
Alaska: Gov. Murkowski Reorganizes Military & Veterans
Affairs Dept. -- Governor Frank H. Murkowski today directed
the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs to be reorganized
to provide better capabilities for homeland security statewide,
as well as to improve the overall efficiency and readiness of
the department. .... Read more.... Alaska: Trends Features Matanuska-Susitina Borough's
Rapid Growth -- The Matanuska-Susitina Borough has
received a lot of attention in this past ten years for its rapid
growth. In reality, it grew at an even faster rate during the
prior three decades..... Read more....
Ketchikan: Neighbors dispute state land sale near Ketchikan
-- 145-acre property going into private hands, slated
for timber harvest.... Ketchikan: Historical Society Program Will Feature Author
On Spanish Voyages To Alaska, 1774-1792 - The Tongass Historical
Society invites the public to attend its Annual Meeting at the
Ted Ferry Civic Center on Thursday, January 16th, at 7:00 p.m.
- Read more...
Alaska: Young Retains Chairmanship of Transportation
& Infrastructure Committee & Vice Chair of Resources
Committee ..... Young has stated his top Alaska priorities
are bridges over the Knik Arm north of Anchorage and a bridge
over the Tongass Narrows in Ketchikan that will connect Revilla
& Gravina Islands. ... Read more...
Alaska: GCI changes lineup and raises its rates -
General Communication Inc., the only company that provides
cable television in Juneau, has announced changes in its stations
and rates beginning in February. KIRO, the CBS Seattle-based
affiliate that broadcast on cable channel 14, will no longer
be carried by GCI. Instead, the company will use KTNL, a CBS
affiliate that broadcasts out of Juneau and is operated by Ketchikan
TV LLC.... Juneau Empire - Read more... Alaska - Nationwide: Secretary Norton Renews Trans-Alaska Pipeline
Right of Way - Interior Secretary Gale Norton on Wednessday
renewed the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) Right-of-Way
(ROW) Federal Agreement and Grant for 30 years. The renewal becomes
effective when the current ROW Agreement and Grant expires on
January 23, 2004. - Read more... Ketchikan: Ketchikan-South Tongass Hwy. Widening Public
Meeting (4:00 -8:00 pm January 9, 2003 - Ted Ferry Civic
Center)- The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities
(ADOT&PF) is developing a project to widen and improve South
Tongass Highway in Ketchikan from Deermont Street to the end
of the pavement at Herring Cove. - Read more... Ketchikan: Union eyes worker purchase of Wards Cove plant
- Union fish processing workers want to buy one of the Wards
Cove Packing Co. salmon plants targeted for closure. The workers of E.C. Phillips &
Son in Ketchikan announced their interest Tuesday through the
International Longshoreman and Warehousemen Union Local 200,
Unit 61. - Kenai Peninsula Online - Read more... Alaska: Fire deaths drop in 2002 - Alaska
saw fewer fire deaths in 2002 than in any year since 1961, when
recording such deaths began, the State Fire Marshal's Office
said in a press release. - Kenai Peninsula Online - Read more... Nationwide: Study of 50 States and the District of Columbia
Finds Dearth of Well-Qualified Teachers For the Students Who
Need Them Most - Although states are taking steps to recruit
and retain skilled teachers, few of those efforts are directed
at finding teachers for the students who need them most, according
to a new 50-state report by Education Week. -- Read more ... Alaska: Stevens Will Serve As Senate President Pro Tempore
- Begins 6th Full Term In Senate... Alaska: Convention centers get late-year boost -
Alaska convention and visitors centers had a busy December in
spite of -- or perhaps because of -- a stagnant year for tourism.
..... In Ketchikan and Kenai, both smaller but busy communities,
local events have overrun the convention centers. - Alaska Journal
of Commerce - Read more....
Sharon McIntyre , an ATCS at
the Federal Aviation Administration 's Ketchikan Flight Service
Station, reported winds gusting as high as 90 mph at the Ketchikan
International Airport on Sunday. - Read more... Ketchikan: Man sentenced in Ketchikan beating death
- A Ketchikan man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for
the beating death of his former friend. - Kenai Peninsula Online
- Read more.... Ketchikan: Sex offender faces charges for playing Santa
- A 62-year-old Ketchikan man faces possible revocation of
his probation for playing Santa Claus. Roger L. Bailey was convicted
in 1995 of felony sexual abuse of a minor, and his probation
limits his contact with children. - Kenai Peninsula Online -
Read more....
Saturday - January 04, 2003 - 11:50 am Nationwide: Commerce & Interior Departments Select Final
Candidates For National Marine Protected Area Federal Advisory
Committee -- Dr.
Dolores Garza of Ketchikan One Of Two Alaskans Selected... Ketchikan: Processor eyes Ketchikan plant - Norquest
Seafoods is interested in purchasing a fish processing operation
in Ketchikan now owned by Wards Cove Packing Co., which announced
recently it was shutting down all nine of its salmon processing
plants. -- Fairbanks Daily News Miner - Read more... Alaska: State Warns of Counterfeit Treasury Checks
- Fake court system and state checks total more than $46,000
-- The Alaska Department of Revenue is again warning businesses
to be on the lookout for counterfeit state checks. - Read more... Ketchikan: WISH Receives $113,000 From The Rasmuson Foundation
- Women In Safe Homes (WISH) a non-profit and grassroots organization
that provides services to victims of domestic violence, sexual
assault and other violent crimes has been awarded $113,00 by
the Rasmuson Foundation. - Read more...
Nationwide: HHS Issues New Report Showing More American Children
Received Health Insurance In Early 2002... Nationwide: President Issues New Year's Day Message for 2003
-- "We will embrace the challenges and opportunities
that lie ahead" -- Read more... Happy New Year - Front Page Text & Graphics...
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