Author: Leila Kheiry

Niblack Mine officials and the Ketchikan Gateway Borough have a couple of years to determine whether the former Seley lumber mill on Gravina Island could become an ore processing facility.

The Ketchikan School Board will decide Wednesday whether to add a third kindergarten teacher at Houghtaling Elementary School.

Saturday marked the 37th annual Blueberry Arts Festival, organized by the Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council. The festival includes a full weekend of activities that starts with a parade and art show Friday, and ends Sunday with a poetry contest and the closing night of Gigglefeet Dance Festival.

The borough and Niblack Mine developers have hammered out an agreement for Niblack to potentially use the former Seley mill on Gravina Island to process ore from the planned mine.

The Ketchikan City Council decided Thursday to delay making a decision on the fate of the Whitman Lake hydroelectric project, which – after 25 years of planning – ended up with construction bids about $12 million over the engineer’s estimate.