Students and teachers adjust to a semester without classrooms
Many students welcome a day or two off school. However, the school shutdown that now extends to the end of the academic year may be too much of a good thing.
CDFU: Everything will take longer this year
Cordova District Fishermen United is pulling out all stops to make sure everyone involved in the 2020 Copper River salmon opener in mid-May knows it is not going to be business as usual and that city and state mandates in place must be adhered to.
Ignore coronavirus mandates, pay up to $500
Residents who fail to comply with the city’s emergency mandates may be fined up to $500 under a new ordinance.
Science center picks architect for new campus
In spite of the pandemic that has thrown much of society into paralysis, Prince William Sound Science Center’s plans for a new campus are moving forward.
School district distributes 4K meals per week
Cordova School District is currently distributing 4,000 meals per week as part of its “grab-and-go” meal program, which commenced March 31.
Cordova senior named 2A Player of Year
Christian Adams, a 6-3 Cordova Wolverine standout, was recently named Alaska 2A Player of the Year by the Alaska Association of Basketball Coaches.
Residents vow to keep COVID-19 out of Bristol Bay
Bristol Bay residents determined to keep the pandemic at bay have put in place their own COVID-19 health response plan and are asking the state to consider closure of the famed commercial salmon fishery in 2020.
Preparing for influx of fishery workers, Cordova weighs its options
“We are prepared to make sure that every protection is in place to keep COVID from coming into our ports of entry, short of shutting the whole town down,” City Manager Helen Howarth said.
NVE will get rapid detection COVID-19 test kits
UPDATED: Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium officials have selected 20 entities, including the Native Village of Eyak, to receive new state-of-the art rapid detection novel coronavirus testing kits produced by Abbott Laboratories.
It’s no business as usual for fishing industry
For Alaska’s commercial fisheries industry in 2020, things will hardly be business as usual.
