School board president Sally Saddler is a shoe-in for re-election. Saddler is the only candidate for two school board seats. Randy Wanamaker is also unopposed for the District Two Assembly seat. The filing period for municipal office has closed with few candidates. Both the school board and three Assembly seats are for three-year terms. Only…
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Monday Newscast
Stories include the latest efforts by the Coast Guard to replace assets in Alaska and step up their presence in the Arctic Ocean.
1st Annual Glacier Bowl
In sports over the weekend, the Juneau-Douglas Crimson Bears trounced the Thunder Mountain Falcons by a score of 68 to zero in what was dubbed the first annual Glacier Bowl. The two schools started their football season Saturday. (Photos by Gail Fenumiai)
PRAC to take up possible fishermen’s memorial move
The public can weigh in on a possible move of the Alaska Commercial Fishermen’s Memorial to Marine Park at a meeting of Juneau’s Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee tomorrow night (Tuesday). The memorial’s board of directors has asked the city’s Docks and Harbors Department to leave the monument where it is near Taku Smokeries, and…
Fish & Game relocates downtown bears
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game on Friday relocated a family of black bears that had been frequenting downtown Juneau this summer. Wildlife biologist Ryan Scott says the department had been looking for the sow and three yearlings for a couple months. He says they finally caught up with them just south on the…
Five Juneau schools meet AYP
Five of Juneau’s 14 schools made Adequate Yearly Progress under the federal No Child Left Behind Act last year, down from six in 2009-2010. Auke Bay and Glacier Valley elementary schools, Juneau Douglas High School, the Community Charter School and Johnson Youth Center achieved academic targets in each of 31 different categories to meet AYP.…