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CDFU scholarships send fledgling fishermen to college
"There’s a lot of fishermen that just know how to fish, and I want to expand my horizons," scholarship recipient Reid Williams said. "I want to learn what else is out there."
CEC: Blackouts were caused by random glitch
"This is a random failure," said Scott Newlun, manager of generation and distribution for CEC. “It’s nothing that we’re too concerned about happening again."
Mushroom gourmet to lead foraging, cookery workshop
“Mushrooms are so mysterious, so ephemeral and fleeting,” Chad Hyatt said. “Even the people I know who know more about mushrooms than anybody are constantly puzzled by them."
Hosick prepares for 101st birthday
“Personally, I didn’t like tending bar,” Antonina Hosick said. “We used to have some real characters, years ago. They were out having fun, but they did a lot of weird things. One man got drunk and they got a coffin out and stuck him in the coffin! When he woke up, he was kind of perturbed.”
Forest Service teaches kids about ecology
"We took precautions to keep the kids from getting worn out and/or hangry," said Emily Stoddard, prevention coordinator for the CFRC
Sudden arts council closure leaves programs in limbo
“It’s like being a government in exile," said Ben Brown, chairman of the Alaska State Council on the Arts. "We’re definitely in uncharted territory here.”
Unwitting resident taxied missing children and their mother from airport
It wasn’t the first time Keesha Hodges had given out-of-towners a ride from Cordova Municipal Airport. When a Seward air taxi pilot asked Hodges...
Recycling plastic is more complicated than it looks
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Cordova’s amateur artillerymen
“It seems appropriate on the Fourth of July to set off something that’s bigger than fireworks,” quipped cannon hobbyist Mike Jackson.
Census Bureau seeks workers for regional surveys
“It’s not a very difficult job, to be honest,” said Jameson Mariano, assistant recruiter for the Census Bureau. “A majority of our employees that take the field representative jobs are 70 or 80-year-olds."