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Arts Complex awarded $49,000 grant

The Juneau Arts and Humanities Council announced May 11 that it received a $49,473 grant from the Juneau…

Twelfth grader Erin Buhler of TMHS got first place for Alaska in the National Jr. Duck Stamp competition.

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TMHS student wins duck stamp competition

Thunder Mountain High School 11th grade exchange student Rosa Annina Hagedorn of Berlin has won “Best in Show”…

Christy NaMee Eriksen, owner of Kindred post, performs one of her poems as Guy Unzicker accompanies her at a Tiny Post Office concert in September 2015. Eriksen this year received a Rasmuson Individual Artist Award. She'll use that award to create videos of her performing new and revised poems. Photo by Mary Catharine Martin.

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Five Southeast artists receive Rasmuson awards

Five Southeast Alaskans received individual artist awards from the Rasmuson Foundation this year — Juneau photographer Ben Huff,…

A member of the Geisan Dancers from Haines dances into the Jilkaat Kwaan Cultural Heritage and Bald Eagle Preserve Visitor Center at its grand opening on Saturday, May 14.

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Cultural heritage center opens in Klukwan

KLUKWAN — The community heritage center has been a long time coming for Klukwan, and they weren’t going…

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Writers’ Weir: Outhouse Spider

You live with a part of me I cannot keep company with. Among snorts, sprays and smells, after…

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JAHC offers art walks

Explore Juneau’s downtown public art collection with the Juneau Arts & Humanities Council, which is offering guided tours…

Looking up to devil's club at Lena Point. Photo by Kenneth Gill, aka Gillfoto.

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Art in Unusual Places

The Capital City Weekly welcomes reader-submitted images of art in unusual or unexpected places. Photographers of all levels…

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Jeff Lund on work vs. luck

I recently read an article in The Atlantic about the perception of luck and why it matters more…

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Fish Factor: The start of salmon season

Alaska’s salmon season has gotten underway with lots of optimism, a far cry from the bleak feelings of…

Here are the tools and safety gear Dick Callahan used to cut the wood you see in the background. Photo by Dick Callahan.

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Woodshed Kings: Wood heat part II

Wealth is different things to different people. When September rolls around two of the best things in the…

The Tlingit cedar clan house represents Aak'w Kwaan moiety hosts with hats from other moieties inside on the benches that represent guests. The former clan house was a amalgam of several moieties and didn't really represent any one group. This time the museum is working hard to "get it right." The theme of the Native American section is 'Resilience" and will include recent art to show that Alaska Natives are still here, still creating. Photos courtesy of the Alaska State Library, Archives, and Museum.

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Inside the SLAM: An exclusive preview

On June 4, Southeast residents have a chance at a date with history: an exclusive preview tour for…

People celebrating Kupreanof's 40th birthday gather on Petersburg Creek sandbars. Photo by Chelsea Tremblay.

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Kupreanof, Alaska’s smallest city, celebrates 40 years

KUPREANOF — How does Alaska’s smallest city celebrate 40 years? By inviting the neighbors over for company. The…

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My Turn: Legislators should act for families of officers lost in the line of duty

When I discovered during my service as governor that an Alaska State Trooper who was killed on the…

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Juneau resident to receive doctorate

Matthew Josephson of Juneau will graduate today, May 15, with his Doctor of Philosophy in molecular, cellular and…

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Three Juneau residents selected for awards from Rasmuson Foundation

The Rasmuson Foundation selected 10 artists to receive Fellowship Awards ($18,000 each) and 25 who will receive Project…

Laurinne Balstad poses.

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JDHS student to compete for Stockholm Junior Water Prize

Laurinne Balstad has been selected by Alaska Water Wastewater Management Association to represent Alaska at the National Stockholm…

Ben Ng poses with frame at the Geo Bee.

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Ben Ng wins Geo Bee for second consecutive year

Test your geography prowess and see if you could answer these questions without your smart phone and within…

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Juneau resident to receive degree from Whitman College

Marlena Sloss is a 2012 graduate of Juneau-Douglas High School and will receive a Bachelor of Arts in…

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Juneau resident gradautes with bachelor’s degree from UAA

Nathel Sims of Juneau graduated with her bachelor of arts in legal studies from the University of Alaska…

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Recent Births

Recent births at Bartlett Regional Hospital • A son, Dennis Michael Lavigne, weighing 7 lbs. 11 oz., was…