KFSK Midday Magazine

The Petersburg Ranger District is taking feedback on a proposal to repair the aging West Point Cabin; vaccination rates in Alaska are amount the lowest in the country, which worries public health experts, especially with the current epidemic of whooping cough; and as of last week, that whooping cough epidemic has spread to Ketchikan.

Hunters have harvested 62 bull moose in the fall hunt near Petersburg, Wrangell, and Kake as of yesterday; preliminary results in Juneau show the proposition that would ban cruise ships on Saturdays is down by more than 1000 votes; the Ketchikan School District celebrated Nettie Jones, who fought to desegregate the schools in Ketchikan nearly a century ago.

A look at the preliminary results in Petersburg's municipal election yesterday, voting in Ketchikan and election results in Wrangell; changes to broadband internet connectivity in rural Alaska can come with big savings - and serious risks.

Petersburg High School's boys and girls cross country teams dominated at the Region V meet in Ketchikan last weekend; this winter's ferry schedule is once again impacted by the need for maintenance; a woman in Ketchikan died from smoke inhalation caused by a small apartment fire.

A recap of Petersburg's candidate forum, ahead of tomorrow's municipal election; an exhibit about Americans during the Holocaust and World War ll is traveling around Alaska; a commentary from Petersburg assembly member Jeigh Stanton Gregor, who won his seat by just one vote last year. He's urging people to go to the polls tomorrow.

The central Gulf of Alaska pollock fishery is shut down for the rest of the season after reports that two boats incidentally caught 2,000 king salmon; divers with the Sitka Fire Department found the body of 16-year old David Jackson yesterday; Petersburg's Public Safety advisory board wants a safety standard for motorized rental boats.

U.S. Navy leaders visited Kake this weekend to apologize for the 19th century bombardment of the village; a look at some of the takeaways from Sitka's 16-day internet outage; Juneau voted to commit $3 million to an Army Corps of Engineers study to look at solutions to glacial outburst flooding.

A teenage boy is missing after the vehicle he was in rolled into a steep ravine in Sitka this weekend; two Cook Inlet salmon fisheries will receive more than $9 million in federal disaster relief; Five Finger Lighthouse keepers talk about the projects they completed this season.

The Alaska Marine Highway System has been awarded $177 million in federal grants; Ketchikan plans to set up an overnight warming center for the town's homeless population, after a unanimous vote by the city council last week; a look at what will happen if Petersburg's Proposition 4 passes - and what will happen if it fails.

Quakers visited Kake last month to return cultural artifacts that had been taken from the town a century ago; the Alaska State Fire Marshal's office plans to give out one thousand new smoke alarms this year; state epidemiologists say Alaska is in the middle of whooping cough epidemic.