On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A look at the Marine Mammal Protection Act on it’s 50th anniversary, with a view from St Paul Island. Middle school students in  Ketchikan have spent more than a month learning songs in languages from  all around the world. And kindergarten and first-grade students in  Anchor Point are learning how to play the violin at school.

Students  in the Homer OPUS program perform at the Alaska Superintendents  Association conference at Lands End Resort on September 30, 2022. (Hope  McKenney/KUCB)