Finding the great earthquake of 1900 near Kodiak Published March 6
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Print article In 1900, Alaska was home to Native people in scattered villages and camps and recently arrived miners who scraped the creeks for gold. Many of the 60,000 souls on the rivers and hills of Alaska stumbled through a big shake that fall, especially those living on Kodiak Island. The largest earthquake on the planet that year happened somewhere near Kodiak on Oct. 9, 1900. Scientists know it was big, but how big? And could it happen again? Seismologist Carl Tape wanted to know more about the great 1900 earthquake. He works at UAF’s Geophysical Institute, studying Alaska earthquakes and what causes them. He became interested in the 1900 earthquake because he suspected it was a big one, maybe a magnitude 8.
FARMINGTON The Navajo Election Administration will hold a special election on March 16 to fill vacant seats in several chapter governments on the Navajo Nation.
The vacancies remained from the November 2020 general election for chapter governments and other offices, according to the election administration.
Special elections will occur in two chapters in the Northern Agency.
Voters in Tooh Haltsooí Chapter will decide who will serve as secretary-treasurer on its Council of Naataani.
Candidates for the office are Carlos Smith, Tommy Sandman and Adrienne Joe, according to the election office in Shiprock.
Rock Point Chapter in Arizona is seeking to fill its farm board member seat. Rex Lee Jim is the only candidate to have filed for the seat, according to the Shiprock election office.
Star Trek Universe Starship Collection Announced by Hero Collector
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The expanding Star Trek Universe of Paramount+ is getting a new Hero Collector ship line. The company is broadening its die-cast Star Trek range with a new collection featuring starships from Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Discovery, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The line offers hand-painted, die-cast starship models that replicate the starships from the modern era of live-action Star Trek streaming television series. Each ship model comes with a magazine that dives deep into the ship s specs and offers behind-the-scenes information via interviews with designers. Hero Collector s Star Trek Universe Starship Collection will launch as a monthly subscription in April.
A proposed bill in Tallahassee that would reverse the new cruise ship restrictions in Key West was approved by a tourism subcommittee in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, clearing the way for the bill to move to the next step.
In a surprise move, the bill was amended to apply to only four of the stateâs 15 seaports â including Key West â putting those four under state, not local, control and letting the others remain status quo. The amended bill now goes to the full House Commerce Committee for a hearing.
The amended language removing the other 11 seaports from state oversight was met with sighs of relief from House legislators representing those districts. The sponsor of the bill, Rep. Spencer Roach, R-79th District, told committee members the amended language was a âsurgicalâ effort to overturn the limits on cruise ships Key West voters approved in November.
Kendallville trail project gets share of state grant
NIKI KELLY | The Journal Gazette
INDIANAPOLIS – Kendallville is receiving part of $30 million in trail grants announced Thursday.
Gov. Eric Holcomb and Indiana Department of Natural Resources Director Dan Bortner said 18 communities and nonprofit organizations will receive a combined $29.6 million for 70 miles of new trail development as a part of the second round of the Next Level Trails program.
Combined with the 17 projects announced as part of the first round in May 2019, the Next Level Trails program has awarded $54.3 million in funding for more than 112 miles of trail throughout Indiana.
“Trails have been an important resource for Hoosiers physical and mental well-being throughout the pandemic,” Holcomb said. “These projects are a transformational investment in quality of life for communities across our state and a valuable tool for economic and tourism development. We are creating important connections tha