The wreckage of a single-engine plane that crashed July 24th on Douglas Island rests in a Juneau hangar. A National Transportation Safety Board crew is piecing the aircraft together for the investigation into the accident that killed Charles Luck and his wife Liping Tang-Luck. The NTSB preliminary report indicates the plane crashed very shortly after…
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Sanford wants CBJ to withdraw support for Tongass Roundtable
Juneau Deputy Mayor Merrill Sanford wants the city to pull its support for the Tongass Futures Roundtable. Sanford believes the roundtable has changed direction since the assembly passed a resolution backing its work in 2007. Most logging advocates left the group earlier this year, and Sanford says he’s no longer comfortable giving it the city’s…
New sweeper will only sweep valley streets
The City and Borough of Juneau is getting a new eight cubic yard, vacuum street sweeper. But as City Manager Rod Swope explains, it can only be used in the Mendenhall Valley. “Funding for this was acquired through a federal government congestion mitigation/air quality program transferred through the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities to…
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Plastic bag tax, sales tax extension placed on ballot
A citizens’ initiative to impose a “plastic bag tax” on certain stores in Juneau will go to voters this fall. The CBJ Assembly last night had the option of adopting an ordinance in place of the initiative. But instead of passing the ordinance or delaying action on it past August 22nd, which would have put…
Assembly passes rezone, Freer asks for reconsideration
The Juneau Assembly on Monday narrowly voted to approve a controversial request to rezone a property in the Mendenhall Valley from D-10 Residential to Light Commercial. But Assemblyman Peter Freer asked for reconsideration, so the issue will be back before the assembly at its next regular meeting. The vote to rezone was 5 to 4,…