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Recent births

Recent births at Bartlett Regional Hospital: • A son, Jesy Edwin Phillips, weighing 6 lbs. 1 oz., was…

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Living and growing: Practical Thanksgiving

I grew up with my parents and teachers modeling and instructing me on how to be polite. Being…

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Climate Action Film Series shows ‘Time to Choose’

The final film of the Climate Action Film Series, “Time to Choose,” is showing at 4:30 p.m. Sunday,…

November Student Recognitions at Juneau-Douglas High School: Students Recognized: Sahil Bathija, Hazel Cristobal, Leah Davenport, Seth Elisoff, Nikko Hebert, Taylor Hintermeister, Kayla Kohlhase, Ricky Ramirez (not pictured), Angela Sanchez and Reilly Sutak (not pictured).

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Photo: JDHS student recognitions

November student recognitions at Juneau-Douglas High School are: Sahil Bathija, Hazel Cristobal, Leah Davenport, Seth Elisoff, Nikko Hebert,…

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Boy Scouts, Order of the Arrow thanks park service

What an amazing camporee we had. Thank you so much for letting us use the State Park. We…

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Thank you from the Dean family

We would like to thank Cornerstone and especially Polly Lloyd for the compassionate and professional care and support…

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Black Friday art show at Freya

Freya will host a Meet Me In Alaska art show from noon to 3 p.m. on Nov. 25.…

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BECCC thanks JCF’s Douglas-Dornan Fund

A big thank you to the Juneau Community Foundation’s Douglas-Dornan Fund for the grant Betty Eliason Child Care…

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JGC November shoot results

The Juneau Gun Club held it’s November shoot Nov. 5-6. Brice Norton, 14, took high over-all honors with…

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Thanksgiving Turkey shoot

The Juneau Gun Club, the Juneau Shooting Sports Foundation, the Juneau Archery Club, and the Alaska Department of…

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Archery area closed to Mountain Goat hunting in Unit 1C

Biologists with the Alaska Department of Fish & Game in Douglas announced an early closure to the mountain…

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Iliamna Lake Seal not endangered, NMFS says

The National Marine Fisheries Service determined that the Iliamna Lake Seal, a population of seals that overwinter in…

An Arctic ground squirrel in Katmai National Park in late August.

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Wild Shots

Submit your wild shots: The Empire Outdoors page is looking for superb images of Alaska’s wildlife, scenery or…

Pictured is a map of the sea floor off western Alaska showing Zhemchug Canyon, one of the largest canyons in the world. It is from a 1970 paper in Marine Geology by D. Scholl, E. Buffington, D. Hopkins and T. Alpha.

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Alaska Science Forum: A visit to one of Earth’s greatest canyons

People wait years for permits to raft the Grand Canyon. Michelle Ridgway once visited a much larger canyon…

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Off the Beaten Path: Wolves of the Noatak

Note to reader: This is last piece in a three-part installment that focuses on encounters with wolves I…

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Off the Trails: The color green

All summer long, we live in a sea of green. The forest, the bogs, the meadows are awash…

A good maul will last generations. Here are two with a stack of recently split wood.

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Heating with Wood VIII: Time to Split

The old timers say to split a little every day And stack it away to season well, but…

Statehood bonfire in downtown Juneau, 1958.

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Treasure Trove of Juneau photos rediscovered

When Kathleen Metcalfe went looking for her own family’s history, she ended up finding a lost piece of…

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SHI publishes book of rare photos documenting Inupiat life in the early 1900s

Sealaska Heritage Institute has published a book of old, rare and priceless photographs of Inupiat life in the…

A self portrait of Benjamin Haldane inside his photo studio in Metlakatla. Dangeli points out objects that are indications both of his photographic  and musical careers. His arm rests on a model totem, emphasizing his heritage. "He chose to visually connect to his body a model totem pole with his Lax Gibou (Wolf Clan) crest represented by the bottom figure," she wrote. "Both physically and metaphorically, he is supported by Tsimshian cultural values and beliefs and gazes directly at the viewer to assert their importance."  Donor: Melvin Charles, THS 89.2.14.21

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‘Photographic sovereignty’ in Metlakatla

The prevailing narrative has it that the more than 800 people who relocated from Canada to Metlakatla, Alaska…