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Monday, June 13 Intoxicated person. Intoxicated persons. Tuesday, June 14 Vehicle unlock. Paper service: Domestic violence order. Agency assist: Ambulance requested. Wednesday, June 15 Vehicle unlock. Agency assist: Ambulance. Found property. Welfare check. Traffic stop. Thursday, June 16 Agency assist: Ambulance. Summons service. Found property. Alarm. Friday, June 17 Traffic stop: Citations issued for no insurance, expired registration and verbal warning for cracked windshield. Break-in: Unfounded. Summons service. Letter served for removing...
The Ketchikan Public Library last Friday morning held a Drag Queen Storytime event that attracted so many participants that library staff held three readings. The reading room is able to hold 25 people, Children’s Library Assistant Anne Marie Meiresonne said, and it was brimming for each reading. The event has attracted much controversy in recent weeks, with supporters and detractors attending Ketchikan City Council and Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly meetings to share their support and opposition, as well as debating the issue on social m...
PALMER — The Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District board on June 15 approved Alaska’s first local ban on transgender girls participating in girls sports and other school-sponsored activities. The change requires schools designate school-sponsored athletic teams or sports as male, female or coed, and requires participation in a female sport to be based on the participant’s biological sex at birth. Officials say the Mat-Su policy will not apply to visiting teams from other districts. The Mat-Su proposal’s language mirrors the wording in a bil...
HELP WANTED Wrangell Elks is looking for a part-time employee to work three to four hours on Friday/Saturday nights selling pull-tabs and raffle tickets. Inquire at the Elks Club or call Dawn at 907-305-0552. Great opportunity to earn extra money and support our local charity fundraising efforts. FOR SALE Wagner heat gun kit, $10. Ryobi JM80 biscuit plate joiner, $40. Craftsman router, $55. Craftsman router dovetail template, $25. Craftsman 12-inch bandsaw/sander, $100. Call Kathie Angerman 907-874-3844. FREE Recycled newspapers. Stop by the...
Western Alaska villagers have endured the worst chum salmon runs on record, several years of anemic Chinook salmon runs in the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers, harvest closures from the Bering Sea coast to Canada’s Yukon Territory and such dire conditions that they relied on emergency shipments of salmon from elsewhere in Alaska just to have food to eat. Many of those suffering see one way to provide some quick relief: Large vessels trawling for pollock and other groundfish in the industrial-scale fisheries of the Bering Sea, they say, must stop i...
ANCHORAGE (AP) — Challenges have been filed to keep Wasilla Republican state Rep. David Eastman’s name off the ballot in his reelection bid, arguing that his affiliation with the far-right Oath Keepers disqualifies him under the state constitution. Several people said they filed complaints related to a section of the constitution that prevents from holding public office anyone who “advocates, or who aids or belongs to any party or organization or association which advocates, the overthrow by force or violence of the government of the Unite...