Wednesday, Sept. 19, is the 10th anniversary of a silly holiday. Talk Like a Pirate Day started as a joke between two friends, but in 2002, syndicated humor columnist Dave Barry turned it into a national, and eventually an international, phenomenon. With that anniversary in mind, KRBD took a look at piracy around Alaska’s southernmost city.
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Island Electric will be upgrading traffic signals in Ketchikan Monday through Thursday, starting at 7 p.m each evening.
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The Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly will take another look Monday at the prioritized community capital project request list, which was rejected by the Ketchikan City Council.
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Following long discussions on both issues, the Ketchikan School Board on Wednesday agreed to hire a new teacher at Revilla Alternative School, but voted against hiring new paraprofessionals to help run district preschools, which have quite a few students on wait lists this year.
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One person sustained a minor injury caused by a fire late Thursday night at the Marine View condominium building on Tongass Avenue.
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