2 small schools in Southeast Alaska shut their doors
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Print article Two Southeast schools in tiny towns have shut their doors this year after their enrollments were expected to sink below 10 students, the minimum for full state funding. The school in Port Protection, on the north end of Prince of Wales Island, had only 13 students last school year, while the other, Tenakee Springs School on Chichagof Island, had seven at the time of the October 2015 enrollment count, according to state data. Residents in both towns said in the past, the school districts had opted to draw from their savings to keep the schools open when enrollment declined, but now they saw little chance of a future boost in student numbers unless new families moved in.
Pelican-bound ferry postponed by bomb scare in Juneau
Posted by Jacob Resneck, CoastAlaska | Feb 10, 2021
The ferry LeConte docks at Juneau’s Auke Bay terminal in 2013. (KCAW file photo)
An Alaska ferry in Juneau was evacuated early Wednesday (2-10-21) after an unticketed Juneau man drove his blue Toyota Tundra pickup on board and allegedly threatened crew members.
The LeConte was loading around 6:15 a.m. at the Auke Bay terminal for a round-trip sailing to Pelican. That’s when a man drove around the line of cars and boarded the vessel and told crew members he was armed and mentioned a bomb.
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Part memoir, part history lesson, ‘A Shape in the Dark’ crafts a thoughtful portrait of brown bears in Alaska
Posted by Jacob Resneck, CoastAlaska | Jan 13, 2021
A male brown bear feasts on a dead whale on Admiralty Island in June 2018. (Photos by Bjorn Dihle)
“A Shape in the Dark: Living and Dying with Brown Bears” is a new book by Juneau writer and wilderness guide Bjorn Dihle. It’s a portrait of brown bears and their complex relationship with humans. It combines a sweeping historical perspective with Dihle’s own experience and interviews with others in the field. He sat down with CoastAlaska’s Jacob Resneck to discuss conservation ethics over the last century, trophy hunting and belting out classic rock tunes to survive in grizzly country.