Author: Leila Kheiry

Citing concerns over funding, the Ketchikan City Council decided Thursday night to move slowly and carefully forward with plans to renovate the downtown Centennial Building.

One of Ketchikan’s best-known residents, who also is a senior advocate and a former Citizen of the Year spoke at Wednesday’s Chamber of Commerce lunch. He talked a little about Ketchikan’s history, but he focused on what life’s like now for people of a certain age.

In a special meeting Thursday, the Ketchikan City Council will look at ideas for renovating the downtown Centennial Building.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has scheduled a meeting for noon Tuesday, Jan. 15, at the Ted Ferry Civic Center in Ketchikan to provide information about the new North Pacific groundfish and halibut observer program.

The Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly voted unanimously Monday to increase the spending authority of the Ketchikan School District by about $1.8 million.