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Members of the Shattuck & Grummett Insurance Personal Lines Team, left to right: Jocelyn Miles, Krysta Onstott, Thuy Nguyen; Kylie Wray, Erika Patch & Donna Shelton Receive the award for Premier Partner Award for Outstanding Performance from Progressive Insurance Company. Give us a call for a quote 789-2446. (Photo courtesy Shattuck and Grummet)

Shattuck & Grummet wins industry award

Members of the Shattuck & Grummett Insurance Personal Lines Team, from left, Jocelyn Miles, Krysta Onstott, Thuy Nguyen, Kylie Wray, Erika Patch, and Donna Shelton… Continue reading

  • May 29, 2017
Members of the Shattuck & Grummett Insurance Personal Lines Team, left to right: Jocelyn Miles, Krysta Onstott, Thuy Nguyen; Kylie Wray, Erika Patch & Donna Shelton Receive the award for Premier Partner Award for Outstanding Performance from Progressive Insurance Company. Give us a call for a quote 789-2446. (Photo courtesy Shattuck and Grummet)

Thank you for supporting the plant sale

The Friends of Jensen-Olson Arboretum thanks Terry Goff, manager of Juneau’s Safeway store, for allowing the use of a portion of their parking lot again… Continue reading

  • May 29, 2017
TMHS art students have winning year

TMHS art students have winning year

Veronica Salter has been honored for her National Jr. Duck Stamp painting earlier this year. In addition to Salter’s “Best of Show,” the following Thunder… Continue reading

  • May 28, 2017
  • By FOR THE JUNEAU EMPIRE
TMHS art students have winning year
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Tips for high school graduates

High school graduation is one of those milestones that people remember for the rest of their lives, right up there with their first kiss or… Continue reading

  • May 28, 2017
  • By PEGGY MCKEE BARNHILL
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Seward and the Tsar: Alaska and Emancipation

Seward and the Tsar: Alaska and Emancipation

Join us at the Valley Library on Tuesday, June 6, from 7:30-8:30 p.m. for Mike Dunham’s free presentation: “Seward and the Tsar: Alaska and Emancipation.”… Continue reading

  • May 28, 2017
Seward and the Tsar: Alaska and Emancipation
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Recognizing limits

I felt mature for a moment. It has nothing to do with wandering around the house yelling about where my insoles, bunion protector, and bifocals… Continue reading

  • May 28, 2017
  • By TARI STAGE-HARVEY
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Juneau Symphony to perform John Williams tribute

Composer John Williams has made some iconic themes for movies from the "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" trilogies to “E.T.” The Juneau Symphony, led by conductor… Continue reading

Bird stories

One day in late April, two friends and I scrambled up a steep stream-side slope to a perch on a cliff below a waterfall. We… Continue reading

“Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich: Tlingit Civil Rights Activist, Lukaax.adi Clan member” by Mary Ellen Frank. JDCM 2017.28.001. Purchase of this artwork has been made possible through the generous support of the Rasmuson Foundation Art Acquisition Fund. (Courtesy photo)

2017 Rasmuson Art Acquisition Grant funds City Museum artwork

The Juneau-Douglas City Museum has been awarded funds from the Museums Alaska Art Acquisition Fund, supported by the Rasmuson Foundation, to purchase artworks from two… Continue reading

“Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich: Tlingit Civil Rights Activist, Lukaax.adi Clan member” by Mary Ellen Frank. JDCM 2017.28.001. Purchase of this artwork has been made possible through the generous support of the Rasmuson Foundation Art Acquisition Fund. (Courtesy photo)
Black bear: “I don’t think they can see me.” Spotted on May 17 at Pt. Bridget State Park. (Photo by Denise Carroll)

Wild Shots: Photos of Mother Nature in Southeast Alaska

Reader-submitted images of Mother Nature in Southeast Submit your wild shots: The Empire Outdoors page is looking for superb images of Alaska’s wildlife, scenery or… Continue reading

Black bear: “I don’t think they can see me.” Spotted on May 17 at Pt. Bridget State Park. (Photo by Denise Carroll)

A window into the lives of brown bears

I first visited the Pack Creek Brown Bear Sanctuary on Admiralty Island seven years ago during a kayak trip. It was the third week of… Continue reading

Sea glass shards scattered on a table. (Photo by Tara Neilson)

Making sea glass candles from Alaska’s beaches

It may have slept at the bottom of the sea in a deteriorating hulk until rolled in a storm tide and set free to roam… Continue reading

Sea glass shards scattered on a table. (Photo by Tara Neilson)
Fishing with a celebrity

Fishing with a celebrity

I wonder what fishing with President Trump would be like. This isn’t a pseudo-political column meant to mock the President or degrade the office because… Continue reading

Fishing with a celebrity
The Moonrise Maple was chosen as the Maple of the Year by the International Maple Society. (Courtesy photo)

The Ancient Tradition of Planting Trees for Remembrance

Since the Civil War, Americans have shown our respect for fallen military by visiting cemeteries, caring for graves, and caring for trees growing in the… Continue reading

The Moonrise Maple was chosen as the Maple of the Year by the International Maple Society. (Courtesy photo)
Writers’ Weir: Winter at Kona Reef, Hawaii

Writers’ Weir: Winter at Kona Reef, Hawaii

Upon the edge of Kona town lies a reef of great renown. Waves well up out of the deep to crash upon this famous reef.… Continue reading

Writers’ Weir: Winter at Kona Reef, Hawaii
Celebrating Little Norway

Celebrating Little Norway

Petersburg transforms the third weekend of May. The downtown is closed to traffic, stores load up stock, and people start arriving in droves. The Little… Continue reading

Celebrating Little Norway
Woodworking in the Tongass National Forest

Woodworking in the Tongass National Forest

Public lands surround Southeast Alaskans. The 17 million acre Tongass National Forest is where residents go to hike, camp, fish, and gather food to nourish… Continue reading

Woodworking in the Tongass National Forest
Mia Nevarez stands in front of Crescent Harbor in Sitka wearing a salmon dress that Cynthia Gibson made from 20,000 salmon vertebrae. (Photo by Bethany Goodrich)

Sitka woman makes dress from 20,000 salmon bones

Delicately yet firmly pinching the tiny vertebrae of a Chinook salmon between her thumb and pointer finger, Cynthia Gibson pushed fearlessly toward a rusty grinder… Continue reading

Mia Nevarez stands in front of Crescent Harbor in Sitka wearing a salmon dress that Cynthia Gibson made from 20,000 salmon vertebrae. (Photo by Bethany Goodrich)

Meditating in the barnyard

2017 is my year of practice. I set a goal to meditate every day in 2017 and so far, so good - I have meditated… Continue reading

  • May 21, 2017
  • By Michelle Bonnet Hale

JDHS alumna graduates magna cum laude from UAF

Claressa Ullmayer, Juneau-Douglas High School Class of 2012, graduated May 6, 2017, magna cum laude from the University of Fairbanks (UAF) with a Bachelor of… Continue reading

  • May 21, 2017
  • By FOR THE JUNEAU EMPIRE