“Having Pride-themed events isn’t about forcing ideas onto kids, but rather about showing our community’s youth that regardless of the person you love, or the pronouns that you use, you matter, you are necessary, you are valuable, and you are loved,” one resident said.
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Preliminary data from the state health department shows 23 people died of drug overdoses in Southeast Alaska last year.
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“We think the idea that LGBT people and our identities are inherently political is not correct,” Ketchikan Pride Alliance Vice President J.D. Martin said. “We’re just people.”
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“We’ve heard over and over feedback internally but also externally from parents that we’re starting to see the difficulties of operating some of our programs without full staffing, and so the district is trying to ameliorate that in the coming year to really hit the ground running,” the school district’s business manager said.
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Ketchikan’s borough manager got a bonus, and Ketchikan’s borough clerk got a raise on Monday after favorable evaluations by Ketchikan’s borough assembly in closed session.
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