Articles written by Alex Abbeduto


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  • State House candidates share views, policies and opinions

    Alex Abbeduto, Ketchikan Daily News|Oct 30, 2024

    Jeremy Bynum, Grant EchoHawk and Agnes Moran are running to fill the state House seat vacated by 10-year incumbent Dan Ortiz, who decided not to seek a sixth term. The election is Tuesday, Nov. 5. If no candidate gets more than 50% of the votes in the first count, the third-place finisher will be eliminated and voters who picked that candidate as their top choice will have their votes recounted using their second choice. Whoever has the most votes in that second count will win the seat...

  • Bank retrieves $625,000 Ketchikan borough sent to scammers

    Alex Abbeduto, Ketchikan Daily News|Jul 31, 2024

    More than $600,000 was returned to the Ketchikan Gateway Borough on July 25 after the borough’s bank, Wells Fargo, successfully retrieved an electronic fund transfer that the borough made to a fraudulent account a couple of months ago. Charlanne Thomas, the borough’s finance director said the borough was notified by Wells Fargo in May that it unknowingly sent money to a fraudulent checking account at Citibank after attempting to pay for the Dudley Field turf project. The contractor’s email account had been hacked by scammers who reque...

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