Schools set to fully reopen five days a week as Ketchikan school board rejects pandemic plan
The return to full-time, in-person schooling follows months of public pressure on the board to fully reopen school buildings.
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Rapid testing machine headed for Ketchikan could speed local & regional COVID-19 results, provider says
“One of our hopes is that the machine could be potentially used on a regional basis for southern Southeast Alaska to be able to provide testing capacity to other communities nearby — Prince of Wales, Wrangell, Petersburg, Sitka,” Creekside Family Health Clinic manager Trevor Shaw said.
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Parents vent frustration with Ketchikan’s back-to-school plan, question administrator shakeup in dramatic town hall
What had been simmering frustration with the district’s “Smart Start” plan boiled over at an explosive town hall meeting Monday night.
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2 new coronavirus cases reported on Prince of Wales Island Friday
One new patient is in Craig, officials say, and the other is in an unspecified community of fewer than 1,000 people.
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Vitamins, ATVs and shrubbery: What some Ketchikan store owners can’t keep on the shelves
Since the start of the pandemic, people stuck at home across the globe have picked up new hobbies, from bread baking to mask making. But what’s selling in Ketchikan? And with no tourists this summer, what’s not selling?
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Alaska Republican Party sends thousands of absentee voting applications to incorrect addresses
“The printer that was hired by our consultants had a malfunction in his computer equipment, and it misaligned the names and the addresses when he was printing and did not get caught before they got mailed out,” the chair of Alaska’s Republican Party said in a phone interview.
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Ketchikan emergency manager: Climbing COVID-19 case numbers could mean more ‘hunkering down’
“If we see this continue to climb, as we have this week — if that were to continue into next week, you will find me going to the mayors and asking them to declare an emergency again, potentially where we’re asking people to hunker down, and I don’t want to get to that point,” Hoage told KRBD in a phone interview Thursday.
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As Safeway and Walmart start requiring masks, Ketchikan residents react to new rules
“Well, you know, it’s their business, so I suppose they can. You know, you can’t go in without shoes on in some places,” one resident said on his way into Safeway, adding, “Am I going to be able to go in there and get a sandwich?”
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