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Super Bear IGA chose the Cancer Connection of Juneau as its donation recipient this year. Super Bear IGA donated $2,500. (Courtesy photo)

Super Bear IGA donates $2,500 to the Cancer Connection of Juneau

Super Bear IGA has chosen the Cancer Connection of Juneau as its annual donation recipient, and has donated $2,500 to the organization, according to a… Continue reading

  • Jan 22, 2017
Super Bear IGA chose the Cancer Connection of Juneau as its donation recipient this year. Super Bear IGA donated $2,500. (Courtesy photo)

Family Promise Juneau hires executive director

Family Promise Juneau has hired an executive director, Joann Flora. Flora has a wide range of experience with nonprofits. She was a 20-year volunteer at… Continue reading

  • Jan 22, 2017
ORCA Program staff Lindsay Hallvik (left) instructs a young skier using a stand-up “ski slider” at Eaglecrest with assistance from Eaglecrest Ski Instructor Tom Hall. (Courtesy photo)

SAIL receives nearly $100,000 from Juneau Community Foundation

Southeast Alaska Independent Living (SAIL) was graciously awarded $95,000 for three projects through the Juneau Community Foundation’s (JCF) Hope Endowment and CBJ Social Service funds… Continue reading

  • Jan 22, 2017
ORCA Program staff Lindsay Hallvik (left) instructs a young skier using a stand-up “ski slider” at Eaglecrest with assistance from Eaglecrest Ski Instructor Tom Hall. (Courtesy photo)

Avista donates $2,000 to United Way of Southeast Alaska

United Way of Southeast Alaska recently received a campaign gift from Avista, the parent company of Alaska Electric Light and Power. Jessie Wuerst, senior communications… Continue reading

  • Jan 22, 2017

Letter: A tribute to Kathy Hildre and a story about a yearbook

A couple of years I went over to Sequim to spend some time with Mada Angell. Her sister had passed away and in her mother’s… Continue reading

  • Jan 22, 2017

Recent births at Bartlett Regional Hospital

Recent births at Bartlett Regional Hospital: • On Jan. 11, a daughter, Helen Isabel Sosa, weighing 7 pounds, 2 ounces, was born to Melanie and… Continue reading

  • Jan 22, 2017
  • By Juneau Empire

Slack Tide: 50 random thoughts while de-icing my driveway

1. Here we go again. 2. De-icing my driveway in full rain gear — that’s so winter in Juneau. 3. Ditto: skiing in chest waders.… Continue reading

  • Jan 22, 2017
  • By Geoff Kirsch
An underwater view of a beaver near the Mendenhall Glacier. (Pete Schneider | US Forest Service)

Fireside Lecture reveals a hidden underwater world at the glacier

Today’s Fireside Lecture will feature U.S. Forest Service natural resource specialist Pete Schneider explaining how he created two live video camera feeds that reveal the… Continue reading

An underwater view of a beaver near the Mendenhall Glacier. (Pete Schneider | US Forest Service)

New plants appear in Kenai as climate shifts

KENAI — Are exotic plants still exotic when the climate around them changes so that they fit right in? That’s the question a local biologist… Continue reading

Crashing surf, Lena Point. Photo by Kerry Howard

Wild Shots

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

Crashing surf, Lena Point. Photo by Kerry Howard
A pair of trumpeter swans in Gustavus. The two juveniles seem to be getting their adult white plumage. (Courtesy Photo | Bob Armstrong)

On the Trails: A quick trip to Gustavus means moose tracks, wolf prints and a small parade of trumpeter swans

When the ferries are running, it’s an easy ride to Gustavus: about four and a half hours, usually, with chance of seeing Dall’s porpoises and… Continue reading

A pair of trumpeter swans in Gustavus. The two juveniles seem to be getting their adult white plumage. (Courtesy Photo | Bob Armstrong)

Stinky cows and climate change: Scientists try to mitigate methane from cows

Many creatures, including you and me, emit methane from time to time. Microbes within our guts break down one substance and turn it into another,… Continue reading

What’s Happening around Southeast

32nd Annual Legislative Welcome Reception, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 5-6:30 p.m., Centennial Hall Convention Center. Baby Raven Reads and Juneau Public Library family night, Thursday, Jan.… Continue reading

Juneau to have sixth annual Project Homeless Connect

Every year, the Juneau Coalition on Housing & Homelessness puts on Project Homeless Connect, a free event that serves as a one-day, one-stop for Juneau’s… Continue reading

PeaceHealth Medical Group to have ear, nose and throat specialist

Ketchikan — Nathan Christensen, M.D., has joined PeaceHealth Medical Group in Ketchikan as a visiting ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialist. He is an experienced… Continue reading

Haines duo to exhibit encaustic art

Haines duo to exhibit beach-themed encaustic artHaines­—Sam Jackson and Rebecca Brewer stumbled onto their new medium by accident. Walking along the Yukon River during July’s… Continue reading

Rasmuson has new board member, two new staff

Rasmuson has new board, staff membersRasmuson Foundation has elected a new member to its Board of Directors and has added two new employees to its… Continue reading

‘Piano Tide’ excerpt: August 24

EXCERPT Just before midnight, a bulge of sea rolls smoothly past Good River Harbor. It’s the flood tide of the dog-salmon moon, the highest tide… Continue reading

The Canvas annual fundraiser

Canvas fundraiserThe Canvas at REACH’s annual fundraising dinner is Feb. 4. There will be live music, a silent auction, and a dinner prepared by Sandpiper… Continue reading

Piano Tide, a novel by Kathleen Dean Moore, who writes from Chichagof Island, is based in an imaginary Southeast Alaskan community.

‘Piano Tide’ offers a story of environmental ethics in Southeast Alaska

A woman with a piano, a dog, and not much else ferries into a tiny Southeast Alaskan village. The townspeople — a grumpy, shouting philosopher… Continue reading

Piano Tide, a novel by Kathleen Dean Moore, who writes from Chichagof Island, is based in an imaginary Southeast Alaskan community.