The Cordova Times

Lahoma Leishman died peacefully at home with her daughter at her side as she lost a swift battle with pancreatic cancer, July 31, 2020 in Yuba City, California.

A recycling drive accepting TVs, DVD players, digital cameras, microwaves and other electronics is taking place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 8-13 at the back parking lot of the Native Village of Eyak office.

A hunter who slipped on a slope and became stranded on a scree cliff while trying to recover the sheep he had harvested was rescued Saturday, Aug. 29 in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve.

Seventeen health care entities, including several Alaska Native organizations, will share in over $13 million in health care funds made available through grant programs within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Alaska Department of Fish and Game officials have announced the opening on Oct. 1 for registration permit hunt RG148 for mountain goats in Game Management Unit 6D.

State health officials are advising anyone who has been in close contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19 to get tested for the virus, even if not personally experiencing symptoms.

An Alaska Native village corporation and Chena Power have signed a 30-year power purchase agreement with the city of Unalaska for 30MW of geothermal produced electrical energy.

ComFish Alaska 2020 will go on Sept. 17-18, minus the popular tradeshow and public receptions, in an effort to keep the several hundred people usually in attendance from spreading the novel coronavirus.

Celebrity chef Dan Churchill, an Australian-born aficionado of good eating and healthy exercise, will deliver the keynote address on the future of fish at the second annual meeting of the Association of Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers (GAPP) on Oct. 12.

A bipartisan group in Congress is urging that the deadline for the U.S. Census count be moved from Sept. 30 to Oct. 31, but meanwhile the Census Bureau shows Alaska’s self-response rate is ranked among the lowest in the nation, ahead only of Puerto Rico.