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Weaver Selected For SHI’s Historic Mountain Goat Chilkat Robe Project

Sydney Akagi will weave the first purely mountain goat robe in more than 150 years.

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Calendar, Sept. 27-Oct. 1

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Todd Hunt introduces “The Circle” at Juneau Community Band’s 2023 Oktoberfest concert. The score for the alphorns was composed specially the concert by Juneau composer Spencer Edgers. (Photo courtesy JCB President Sarah McNair-Grove)

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Juneau Community Bands’ Oktoberfest Concert returns Saturday

The theme, Oktoberfest, is back by popular demand, since they first debuted the theme two years ago

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Calendar, Sept. 24-27

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Calendar, Sept. 20-24

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Derived from the best-selling Audible audiobook “Midnight Son,” by James Dommek Jr., a new documentary on Hulu, “Blood & Myth,” follows Dommek’s investigation into a series of shocking violent crimes that shatter a remote Native village in Northern Alaska. (Courtesy of Disney/via Alaska Beacon)

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Film explores clash of Native culture, Western justice

New documentary, “Blood & Myth,” relates to 2012 shootings and woman’s death that convicted Iñupiaq man blamed on…

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Calendar, Sept. 3-7

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Calendar, Sept. 3-7

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Calendar, Sept. 10-13

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Community Calendar, Aug. 27-30

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James Edens looks at 35mm film he had just developed. Photo by By Jonathon Dawe/ Wrangell Sentinel)

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Father and son share love for old-school film photography

For photographers like James Edens, film photography never lost its allure

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Calendar, Aug. 30-Sept. 3

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Calendar, Aug. 20-23

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Community calendar for Aug. 16, 2025

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Community calendar for Aug. 9, 2025

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Larisa Koenig, who left Wrangell as a young child in the late 1970s and now lives in Washington state, is the writer for a video production that focuses on a fictional tribe and Indigenous culture, with characters and experiences inspired by her own life. (Courtesy photo)

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Writer with Wrangell roots writes for show highlighting Native culture

As a child, Larisa Koenig experienced a vision of her grandfather being mortally injured during a totem raising…

Author Naomi Klouda poses for a photo in this undated photograph. (Photo courtesy of Naomi Klouda)

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Alaska’s glaciers cataloged in new dictionary

“The Alaska Glacier Dictionary” was published this May by Cardamom Press.

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Community calendar for July 26, 2025

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Attendees dance at Salmonfest in Ninilchik<ins>, Alaska,</ins> on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024.

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Salmonfest to return for 15th year of fish, love and music

This year’s festival will take place from Aug. 1-3 at the Kenai Peninsula Fairgrounds in Ninilchik.

The 10 participants in season 9 of “Alone,” premiering on May 26, 2022, on the History Channel. Terry Burns of Homer is the fifth from left. Another Alaskan in the series, Jacques Tourcotte of Juneau, is third from left. (Photo by Brendan George Ko/History Channel)

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Homer man goes it ‘Alone’

Burns brings lifetime of wilderness experience to survival series.