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The Juneau School District Board of Education honors Dzantik’i Heeni Middle School Principal Kristy Germain (center right) as she received an award for Assistant Principal of the Year presented by Dr. Lisa Skiles Parady, Executive Director of the Alaska Council of School Administrators (center left). (Courtesy photo | Juneau School District)

Dzantik’i Heeni assistant principal wins statewide award

After an increase of activities available to Dzantik’i Heeni Middle School Students in recent years, a statewide organization recognized the efforts of the school’s assistant… Continue reading

  • Jan 21, 2018
  • By Juneau Empire
The Juneau School District Board of Education honors Dzantik’i Heeni Middle School Principal Kristy Germain (center right) as she received an award for Assistant Principal of the Year presented by Dr. Lisa Skiles Parady, Executive Director of the Alaska Council of School Administrators (center left). (Courtesy photo | Juneau School District)

Thank you to the Holiday Village

Thank you Tamala Booten and the staff at Timberwolf, as well as Samantha Adams and everyone associated with the Juneau Holiday Village, for raising $1,034… Continue reading

  • Jan 21, 2018

New hire at GIS

Resource Data, a custom software development, geographic information system (GIS) and IT consulting firm, has hired Chad Millen as Senior Programmer/Analyst to its Juneau branch.… Continue reading

  • Jan 21, 2018

Recent births

Recent births at Bartlett Regional Hospital: • On Jan. 10, a son, Mateo Allan Echave, weighing 7 pounds, 1 ounce, was born to Katy and… Continue reading

  • Jan 21, 2018

Thank you to our Alaska legislators

As the legislature and their staff across our state return to our state capitol to start work on the important priorities in our state, the… Continue reading

  • Jan 21, 2018
Michelle Chartrand performs isotopic analyses on human hair to find out more about a person’s whereabouts and diet. Photo by Ned Rozell.

Your hair knows where you’ve been

Sprouting from your head at the rate of more than three inches a year, hair is a recorder of the things you eat and drink… Continue reading

Michelle Chartrand performs isotopic analyses on human hair to find out more about a person’s whereabouts and diet. Photo by Ned Rozell.

Master gardener training registration open

Master gardener training that begins Feb. 7 in Juneau will teach participants how to design, plant, and maintain a successful garden in Southeast Alaska. Classes… Continue reading

A beaver came out of its winter rest in the lodge to have lunch on the ice. (Photo by Kerry Howard)

Winter trailside observations

Here’s an assortment of winter observations that gave pleasure to some trail-walkers. • Late November, Eaglecrest. Parks and Rec hikers on snowshoes went up the… Continue reading

A beaver came out of its winter rest in the lodge to have lunch on the ice. (Photo by Kerry Howard)
Cedar fire tree on Betton Island, Alaska. Image courtesy of Henrikson.

Ketchikan artist delves into mystery of Southeast Alaska ‘fire trees’

It was more than a decade ago that painter Mary Ida Henrikson began her quest for knowledge about fire trees, sparked by a cedar on… Continue reading

Cedar fire tree on Betton Island, Alaska. Image courtesy of Henrikson.
The Awesome Alaska Book Review: Blair Braverman cracks open an ‘Ice Cube’

The Awesome Alaska Book Review: Blair Braverman cracks open an ‘Ice Cube’

It can be intimidating to give books to a bookseller. But that is just what happened one summer when a young man with a shy… Continue reading

The Awesome Alaska Book Review: Blair Braverman cracks open an ‘Ice Cube’

Curious by Nature: Do hatchery fish hamper wild king and coho?

“I have heard that the huge releases of hatchery pink and chum salmon are seriously reducing food for king and coho salmon. It would seem… Continue reading

Once captured, biologists fit each wolf with a GPS collar to track habitat range. (Photo by Jeanette Mills / National Park Service)

Salmon is on the menu for Lake Clark’s wolves

Deep within Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, staff at a remote ranger station on the north shore of Telaquana Lake noted something amiss. Wolves,… Continue reading

Once captured, biologists fit each wolf with a GPS collar to track habitat range. (Photo by Jeanette Mills / National Park Service)
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Therapy on dark winter days

An early memory that I treasure and often revisit is of when I was about eight years old and I was staying with my grandparents… Continue reading

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X’unei Lance Twitchell in “Shaawatke’&

Co-written Tlingit and English-language poem celebrates birth

Juneau-based poet Emily Wall has been working on a book of birth poems for six years. She collected birth stories from as many different people… Continue reading

X’unei Lance Twitchell in “Shaawatke’&
The LEGO building challenge helped kick off the opening of the “Discover Tech: Engineers Make a World of Difference” interactive exhibit which will be at the Mendenhall Library until April 6. Photos by Erin Laughlin | For the Capital City Weekly

Kids can ‘Discover Tech’ and engineering at the Mendenhall Library

Juneau Public Libraries is one of eight libraries in the United States chosen to host the interactive exhibit “Discover Tech: Engineers Make a World of… Continue reading

The LEGO building challenge helped kick off the opening of the “Discover Tech: Engineers Make a World of Difference” interactive exhibit which will be at the Mendenhall Library until April 6. Photos by Erin Laughlin | For the Capital City Weekly

Why you going this way?

While driving our son to school the other day my husband asked me “Why are you going this way?” No matter the time of day,… Continue reading

  • Jan 14, 2018
  • By BECKY CORSON

Central Council names Head Start director

Amber Frommherz has been promoted to head the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska Head Start program, the council announced Jan.… Continue reading

Formerly a seafood economist for the McDowell Group, Andy Wink is starting his own research and consulting practice. (Courtesy photo | Andy Wink)

Seafood economist starts new firm

Andy Wink, a seafood economist for the McDowell Group, is leaving the group to form his own firm. Wink’s new firm, Wink Research & Consulting,… Continue reading

  • Jan 14, 2018
  • By Juneau Empire
Formerly a seafood economist for the McDowell Group, Andy Wink is starting his own research and consulting practice. (Courtesy photo | Andy Wink)

Pesticide training offered in Alaska communities

The University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service will offer pesticide applicator certification training Jan. 30 to Feb. 1 to communities across Alaska. The training… Continue reading

  • Jan 14, 2018

Planetarium talk on gravitational waves

Marie Drake Planetarium is Jan. 16 hosting a presentation on gravitational waves. Gravitational waves were predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity in 1916 but… Continue reading

  • Jan 14, 2018
  • By Juneau Empire