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Sailing with My Family in Southeast Alaska'

1 day ago | ktoo.org | Bostin Christopher

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Pride Month and First Friday events, and Juneau Youth Sailing summer camps

1 day ago | ktoo.org | Bostin Christopher

On this episode of Juneau Afternoon: Pride Month events with SEAGLA, Juneau-Douglas City Museum, First Friday preview with Juneau Arts and Humanities Council, and Juneau Youth Sailing summer camps are registering now. Audio PodcastVideo LivestreamJuneau Afternoon livestream featuring SEAGLA Pride Month, Juneau-Douglas City Museum, Juneau Youth Sailing, and First Friday preview with the JAHC.
Federal cuts could end key library services for rural Alaskans

2 days ago | ktoo.org | Claire Stremple

At the Moose Pass Public Library, kids were playing in a room lined with bookshelves. Children’s toys lay scattered across the floor. This is a typical day for the library, which has become a hub for the Kenai Peninsula community of about 80 people. It’s one of the roughly 70 libraries in Alaska that participate in a lending program, called the 800# Interlibrary Loan & Reference Backup Service, that primarily serves rural communities. The service stopped taking requests on May 7.
There’s an event nearly every day of Juneau’s Pride month

4 days ago | ktoo.org | Yvonne Krumrey

June is Pride month and Juneau’s LGBTQ+ Pride month calendar is packed this year — more so than in recent memory. One organizer says she wants to create chances for people to connect with their community amid attacks by the Trump administration. Summer Christiansen leads SEAGLA, Juneau’s LGBTQ+ nonprofit. She says, unless otherwise noted, all events are open to LGBTQ+ identifying people and allies.
Cost of living initiatives fall short on signatures to make Juneau’s local ballot

4 days ago | ktoo.org | Clarise Larson

Local advocates have failed to gather enough signatures before the initial deadline for three ballot petitions that seek to lower the cost of living in Juneau. But there’s still a chance they could secure a spot on the local ballot this October. The three petitions seek to cap the local property tax rate, remove sales tax on food and utilities, and make in-person voting the default again in Juneau’s local elections.
Trio of Trump officials tour Alaska under promise of ‘unleashing’ state’s resource potential

4 days ago | ktoo.org | Wesley Early

Three high-level Trump administration officials are touring Alaska this week, to make good on a day one promise from the president: unleashing Alaska’s resource potential. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and EPA administrator Lee Zeldin are part of a group that will travel to the North Slope on Monday and later participate in Governor Mike Dunleavy’s sustainable energy conference in Anchorage.
Alaska schools need teachers. They’re hiring them from the Philippines.

4 days ago | ktoo.org | Brian Venua

Serjoe Gutierrez stood above the Kodiak High School Orchestra, violin in hand, as students rifled through their sheet music for pieces like “The Barber of Seville” and “Canyon Sunset.”Gutierrez often plays with his students instead of conducting them. Gutierrez, who was born and raised in the Philippines, was in his fifth year of teaching there when he decided he wanted to try to work in another country.
Lingít Word of the Week: Shaa - Mountain

4 days ago | ktoo.org | Yvonne Krumrey

This is Lingít Word of the Week. Each week, we feature a Lingít word voiced by master speakers. Lingít has been spoken throughout present-day Southeast Alaska and parts of Canada for over 10,000 years. Gunalchéesh to X̱’unei Lance Twitchell, Goldbelt Heritage Foundation and the University of Alaska Southeast for sharing the recorded audio for this series.
‘Stubby squid’ saved by savvy science center aquarist

1 week ago | ktoo.org | Meredith Redick

In a corner tank in the Sitka Sound Science Center, there’s a soft creature about the size and shape of a plum. She’s a deep, ruddy purple, and she blasts little puffs of sand when someone gets too close to the tank. Matt Wilson has worked as the aquarist here for a few years. He manages the care of about 200 species in the aquarium. He says this stubby squid — also known as a dumpling squid, or Rossia pacifica — isn’t really a squid at all.
After Anchorage man’s ICE detention, his wife wants answers

1 week ago | ktoo.org | Casey Grove

Immigration officials detained an Anchorage man originally from Peru on Friday, according to his wife, who says she’s been left in the dark about what will happen to him next. Cristian Ibanez Velasquez, 32, had dropped his wife at work Friday morning and returned home when Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers approached him in the couple’s driveway. He’s been in jail ever since, said his wife, Paola Jimenez, in an interview Thursday, nearly a week later.