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Most Ketchikan residents have been fortunate enough to have seen whales in local waters.

Ketchikans fishing enthusiasts will be angling for silvers during the Ketchikan CHARR Educational Fund Inc. first annual Silver Salmon Derby, which will be taking place Sept. 3-5. Participants can weigh-in

History came to life on April 27 at the Tongass Historical Museum, with a little help from a group of second-graders from Point Higgins Elementary School.

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A big green-thumbs up to the Ketchikan Wellness Coalition, volunteers and grant-funders involved in starting a new community garden network here in Ketchikan. The garden sites have been taking shape adjacent to Tongass Federal Credit Union, Clover Pass Community Church and Rendezvous Senior Day Services. It’s been fun seeing the raised-bed garden plots taking shape. We know that wonderful things will be growing soon, and that includes community growth. Interest in gardening has deep roots ...

At a Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce meeting in the early 1970s, Len Laurance said that eventually Ketchikan would host more than one million cruise ship passengers each season. The proclamation, made at a time when less than 70,000 cruise passengers visited the First City, was met with guffaws by the audience. But Laurance, who died at 88 on April 8, was right. In both 2018 and 2019, Ketchikan had more than one million cruise visitors and would likely have had more than 1.3 million in 2020 if no...

Ketchikan is set to go green for the summer as the Ketchikan Wellness Coalition garden network continues to bloom. The garden network includes three gardens, located at Clover Pass Church, Tongass Federal Credit Unions campus and Rendezvous Senior Day Services (although this garden is not public), according to KWC Executive Director Romanda Simpson. Plots and beds in the Clover Pass and TFCU gardens will be open for rent by any individual who fills out an application and pays a small fee that w...

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KETCHIKAN (KDN) — Ketchikan’s Christmas spirit is on display, with judges for the 2020 Christmas Home Lighting Contest reporting seeing more decorated residences than in years past. There are “numerous streets with 25% to 40% (of residences) decorated with Christmas lights,” according to information from the contest that’s co-sponsored by AARP Local 1825 and IBEW Local 1547. “Decks and handrails were decorated with lots of strings of lights — more so than past...