CLOUDY SKIES CONTINUING THROUGH THE LATE EVENING WITH SCATTERED
SHOWERS MOVING TO THE WEST. SOUTHEAST WIND AROUND 10 MPH.
During its regular meeting Wednesday, the Ketchikan School Board will consider whether to purchase 60 MacBook Air laptop computers to be used for elementary and middle school physical education.
According to a memo from Curriculum Director Linda Hardin, the computers will help students participate in the nationwide “Be Fit” program.
The purchase will cost an estimated $62,000.
Also Wednesday, the School Board has an executive session at the end of the meeting to discuss its evaluation of Superintendent Robert Boyle.
The meeting starts at 6 p.m. in Borough Assembly chambers. Public comment will be heard at the start and end of the meeting.
Construction-related blasting up at Ketchikan’s Whitman Lake hydroelectric dam site triggered a landslide Saturday, taking out two pipes that supply water for the Whitman hatchery. To keep you from worrying: The fish are OK. But, it was touch and go there for a while. 
A documentary series about Ketchikan won regional Emmy awards in two categories during the awards ceremony Saturday in Seattle.