ADF&G biologist Phil Mooney says some joggers spotted a brown bear at about 5:30 p.m. Monday in the Benchlands between Kramer Avenue and Harbor Mountain Road. Mooney also says trash cans were knocked over along Sawmill Creek Road.
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The Alaska Department of Fish and Game estimates fishermen cought roughly 5,600 tons of fish during the second opening on Monday. That brings the total harvested so far to about 10,400 tons, or more than a third of this year’s guideline harvest level.
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The Alaska Department of Fish & Game mapped 17.4 nautical miles of active herring spawn during aerial surveys on Monday April 2, 2012.
Cecelia Chikigak (Sr-Alakanuk), Baxter Bond (Sr-Tununak), and Corey Meyers (Sr-Pilot Station) discuss their recent visit with five other dancers to Den Bosch, Netherlands, and to Paris. With Michael Dempster, Yupik Dance coordinator.SHS Track coach Chloe Copeland (and Phoebe Snow) talks about this Thursday's Bridge-a-thon fundraiser from 4:30 - 5:30 PM (to pledge, call the high school at 747-3263), and the annual Toilet Paper Fun Run (a door-to-door fundraiser) on Tue Apr 17.
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Herring seiners work for over five hours in second opener on Monday. Sitka Tribe, Sealaska sign deal for management of sacred sites near Sitka. Fairbanks resident faces charges for submitting fraudulent signatures for Coast Zone Management initiative. Senate bill would allow judges to consider FASD in sentencing defendants.
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The deal covers six locations around Sitka, including village sites at Sealion Cove, Krugloi Point, Hoonah Sound and Point Craven. It also covers petroglyphs in Sinitsin Cove and Sitkoh Creek.
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Whenever anyone with the slightest music sensibility enters Raven Radio for the first time, the first thing he or she comments on is invariably our huge music library. Our huge, organized music library, that is. The color-coding scheme was the brainchild (or lovechild?) of Jake Schumacher, Raven Radio's Music and Operations Director from before sign-on in 1981 to 1985, and Program Director until 1994.
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The second Sitka Sound sac roe herring opening will be at 11:30 this morning in the same area as the first opening, in the northwest portion of Sitka Sound including Hayward Strait, Promisla Bay, and parts of Eastern Bay.
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ADF&G released this map of active herring spawn in Sitka Sound after conducting aerial surveys on Sunday April 1, 2012.
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Beverly Rivard is a grief counselor and social worker at the Bill Brady Healing Center. She and Willow Moore, director of Braveheart Volunteers, discuss a grief support group which will begin on Mon Apr 16 at 6 PM in the Pioneer Home Manager's House. Rivard says grief does not necessarily begin at the loss of a loved-one, and may manifest itself in various ways throughout your life.
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