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• Wet Labor Day weekend kicks off Southeast rainy season

  30-08-2024 23:54 via ktoo.org
  
  Rain runoff runs down a drain in the Mendenhall Valley in November 2022. (Clarise Larson/ for the Juneau Empire)
  Heavy rainfall is coming to Southeast Alaska this weekend, beginning Friday afternoon.
  This kind of precipitation can increase the risk of landslides. In a public service announcement, the City and Borough of Juneau advised residents on and around slopes to be aware of their surroundings as the wet weather moves through.
  Meteorologist Pete Boyd with the National Weather Service said t
  
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• Southeast Alaska king salmon sport fishery is closed for month due to international treaty limits

  30-08-2024 23:20 via ktoo.org
  
  A king salmon. (Photo by Ryan Hagerty/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
  Sport anglers with a king salmon permit in Southeast Alaska must wait a month to keep their catch after the state’s Department of Fish and Game closed the fishery on Monday.
  Department commissioner Doug Vincent-Lang said the closure is not cause for concern about the king salmon population, but because he must ensure that the state stays within its catch limits under the Pacific Salmon Treaty.
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• Local businesses make their case against Juneau’s “Ship-Free Saturday” ballot proposition

  30-08-2024 20:17 via ktoo.org
  
  A panel of members of the Protect Juneau’s Future advocacy group speak to the Greater Juneau Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  An advocacy group is telling Juneau residents to vote no on a proposition set to appear on the local ballot this fall. It’s about whether large cruise ships should be banned on Saturdays starting next year. 
  The Greater Juneau Chamber of Commerce hosted a forum Thursday featuring a panel of executive members of the gro
  
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• Internet, cell services down for most of Sitka

  30-08-2024 03:32 via ktoo.org
  
  Sitka’s Lincoln Street on June 21, 2023. (Rich McClear/KCAW)
  Most internet and cell services went down in Stika Thursday morning shortly after 11 a.m.
  Sitkans who reached out to the GCI customer service line  to report the widespread internet and cell service outage got a message that said “GCI is aware of the outage that is affecting internet and TV service within the O’Malley area in Anchorage and Sitka.”
  Sitka had 4,000 cruise passengers on Thursday. Many business
  
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• Alleged victims of former volunteer at Juneau’s Echo Ranch Bible Camp are suing

  30-08-2024 03:26 via ktoo.org
  
  Echo Ranch Bible Camp. April, 2024. (Photo by Clarise Larson/KTOO).
  A warning: this story contains references to child sex abuse. 
  Juneau’s Echo Ranch Bible Camp is among the places where a California man allegedly abused boys over the span of decades. Now, the people who say they were victims of Bradley Earl Reger are trying to hold the institutions where the abuse took place accountable. 
  Reger was affiliated with Juneau’s Echo Ranch Bible camp for about 30 years. In the
  
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• Newscast – Thursday, August 29, 2024

  30-08-2024 03:00 via ktoo.org
  
  
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  In this newscast:A new partnership between a cruise ship company and a local Alaska Native corporation aims to improve internet in the downtown area during the cruise season,
  Juneau’s Echo Ranch Bible Camp is among the places where a California man allegedly abused boys over the span of decades, according to a recent lawsuit. Now, the people who say they were victims of Bradley Earl Reger are trying to hold the ins
  
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• Juneau Afternoon: Perseverance Theatre opens world premiere play ‘Cold Case’ by Cathy Tagnak Rexford

  30-08-2024 02:55 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Perseverance Theatre’s world premiere “Cold Case” production opens Friday, September 6 in Juneau.
  On today’s program:Perseverance Theatre’s “Cold Case” world premiere starting September 6Sitka Jazz Tour to play Juneau Monday, September 2Chamber of Commerce monthly updates
  Bostin Christopher hosts the conversation. Juneau Afternoon airs at 3:00 p.m. on KTOO and KAUK with a rebroadcast at 7:00 p.m. Listen online or subscribe to the podcast at ktoo.org
  
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• Royal Caribbean, Goldbelt launch downtown public Wi-Fi program during tourism season

  30-08-2024 00:33 via ktoo.org
  
  Cruise ship tourists walk the docks in downtown Juneau in July, 2024. (Clarise Larson/KTOO)
  Downtown Juneau during the summer cruise ship season is busy. And it’s not just the streets and sidewalks that get congested — so does the internet connection. 
  A new partnership between a cruise ship company and a local Alaska Native corporation aims to change that. On Thursday, the Royal Caribbean Group and Goldbelt Incorporated announced its launch of a pilot program to improve interne
  
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