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Upright pianos in Skagway bars dating from the Gold Rush. Grand pianos worth tens of thousands of dollars in Anchorage and Sitka. Bob Hope's piano while he was on a USO tour in Alaska. Plus private, church and school pianos in Wrangell. Virgel Hale has tuned them all in his 51-year career traveling around Alaska. But now, at age 81, he's retiring, and will be staying home with his wife, Patsy, who has health problems, in Mountain Grove, Missouri, closer to kids and grandkids. "I hate to call it...
SITKA, Alaska (AP) _ When Sonja Conner glanced at the photo of a smiling girl in July 26 Daily Sitka Sentinel, she thought the girl looked a lot like her mother. But she didn’t read the caption saying the picture was one of three photos of the same girl that were found in a book Gale Kehres had bought at the White Elephant shop. Kehres wondered if somebody in town would recognize the pictures and want them back, and she asked the Sentinel to help her find out. After Sonja Conner saw the picture in the Friday Sentinel she put the paper aside, f...