Three people were arrested on Prince of Wales Island after postal inspectors and state troopers found nearly one-and-a-half ounces of methamphetamine in a package bound for a logging camp near Keete Inlet. That’s according to a state trooper dispatch dated Thursday.
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Tribal leaders will have more input on school hiring in Ketchikan after the school board approved a plan in a split vote Wednesday night. In an unrelated matter, the Ketchikan board will be looking for a new board president in January.
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A Prince of Wales Island man convicted of murdering his girlfriend in 2016 was sentenced to 99 years in prison on Tuesday, Dec. 10.
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Lew Williams has long been a fixture in Ketchikan City Hall. He was first elected to the city council in 1987, where he served until he was elected mayor in 2009. After three terms as mayor, he returned to the city council in 2018.
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Local officials are pushing back against a plan to close Ketchikan’s state trooper dispatch center, and to relocate its seven staff to Anchorage. The plan — which also includes transferring dispatchers in Wasilla and Soldotna — was the subject of much concern at the latest meeting of the Ketchikan Borough assembly, whose mayor believes that centralizing dispatch operations could leave Southeast communities high and dry in a disaster.
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Doug Rogers took this photo of the community Christmas tree, all lit up, with the moon in the background.
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