Pablo Arauz Peña, KTOO

The Juneau School District is serving four days worth of free meals for the Alaska day holiday this weekend. That includes free breakfast and lunch.

Hot serve favorites include French toast, breakfast omelet taco and oatmeal for breakfast. The lunch menu includes cheeseburger, burritos and grilled chicken burgers. Here’s the full menu.

Meals are also available for pickup at any district school for children 18 and under today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and families can pick up meals at Gruening Park apartments and Cedar Park apartments from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. today.

The district is providing a total of 3,400 lunch meals and the same amount of breakfast meals for any student, regardless of eligibility. 

More information can be found on the district’s Facebook page.

In this newscast:

• Counting for the 2020 Census ends today. That’s following a Supreme Court ruling earlier this week that allows the federal government to end the count early.
• More than 17,000 Alaskans’ absentee ballots have already been returned to the state Division of Elections. That leaves hundreds of thousands who still have a chance to vote.
• The so-called “Pebble Tapes” that came out last month revealed how the company talked to potential investors about its sway over elected officials, among other things.

In this newscast:

• State health officials reported that four more Alaskans died of COVID-19 recently.
• A staff member at Blatchley Middle School in Sitka has tested positive for coronavirus.
• Ravn Alaska says it could resume scheduled flights between Anchorage and Unalaska in two weeks.
• The final votes have been tallied for the municipal elections in Haines and Skagway.
• Officials say eligible Alaska residents receiving unemployment checks from the state are expected to get a $300 increase in weekly payments beginning next week.
• State transportation officials are holding a virtual meeting tonight to talk about safety improvements to the highway intersection near Juneau’s Fred Meyer.

Following a historic voter turnout, the Southeast community of Hoonah is holding a runoff election for a city council seat later this month.

City Clerk Jennifer Bidiman says Hoonah’s voter turnout in the city was at 53%. That’s higher than the last two municipal elections.

While Gerald Byers won the mayor’s seat with 187 votes, two city council seats were up to voters. Stanley Savland won a three-year term on the council.

But Chris Orr and Paul Comolli both won 36% of the votes in the race for the other council seat.

According to Hoonah’s municipal code, a candidate must hold 40% of the vote to be elected. That means voters will have to decide who gets the city council seat on Oct. 22.

Esther Heath-Mills, Karen Hinchman and Dillon Styers were each elected to the the school board. Gordon Greenwald won a seat on the city’s liquor board.

 

In this newscast:

• A Juneau woman in her sixties died of COVID-19 at Bartlett Regional Hospital on Tuesday.
• Following a historic voter turnout, the Southeast community of Hoonah is holding a runoff election for a city council seat later this month.
• This year, the Elders and Youth Conference went virtual for the first time in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• A watchdog group hopes a lawsuit will shake loose more evidence of lost revenue from timber sales on the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska.

In this newscast:

• Voting in Juneau’s first by-mail local election ended Tuesday, but results aren’t expected until later Friday.
• Yakutat has a new health center after nearly six years of planning and construction.
• Alaska’s U.S. Senate race this year was not expected to be especially competitive — incumbent Republican Dan Sullivan was predicted to cruise to victory.
• Industry opponents of a ballot measure to raise oil taxes have donated most of the money given to all Alaska political campaigns at the state level this year.