Jenna Kunze

1 week ago | adn.com | Jenna Kunze

Wielding a sharpened piece of volcanic glass, Tim Ackerman sliced into the thawing carcass of a harbor seal. “You want to keep parallel to the hide like this, as close as you can to the skin,” Ackerman said, narrating his deft movement separating skin from fat to a dozen chefs, nutritionists and cultural practitioners on a recent weekday in the kitchen of a patient housing building at the Alaska Native Medical Center. They crowded around the stainless steel table’s seal centerpiece.

2 weeks ago | adn.com | Jenna Kunze

Days after Anchorage School District principals notified 185 staff members that their positions will be cut next year absent a state funding boost, it’s become clear that many of those cuts could end or reduce more than half of the district’s high school choir programs. The district said it wasn’t yet able to provide the Daily News with a full list of affected positions, saying the decisions were left up to individual school principals.

3 weeks ago | adn.com | Jenna Kunze

Like many trends, it started on TikTok. In December 2023, a Dubai food influencer posted a video of herself audibly biting into a chocolate bar, gobs of creamy pistachio butter that filled the bar’s interior bubbling to the surface. The crunch, which comes from the bar’s shredded phyllo dough innards, can be heard with every bite. The video went viral, mounting a movement in the chocolatier industry that has since spread globally.

3 weeks ago | adn.com | Jenna Kunze

Principals and supervisors throughout the Anchorage School District on Monday began notifying hundreds of educators that — barring additional funding from thestate — their position will be cut beginning next school year, according to the district. A school district official in a Friday email blamed the move on a $111 million deficit the district is facing, caused by nearly a decade of largely flat state formula funding, along with rising costs and inflation.

3 weeks ago | adn.com | Jenna Kunze

With just two remaining blanks separating them from winning a game of hangman against their classmate Blake Tomco, a dozen fifth-grade French immersion students leaped out of their seats. The word, at that point, seemed clear. g â _ e a _“I know it, I know it,” several students chorused in French, each stretching their arm sky-high toward paper Eiffel Towers hanging from the ceiling. And they did.