•  
  •  
Photo: Mayor meets mayor

Third grade teacher Rocky Eddy, center, introduces Juneau Mayor Merrill Sanford to "Eddyville" Mayor Annika Schwartz during a visit to Gastineau...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2013-05-23/photo-mayor-meets-mayor
Local
The college experiment: How one student at UAS battled mounting pressure

...off the graduation stage.I am a life-long Alaskan. I've been in the Alaska educational stream since my first grade teacher, Linda Torgerson at the Juneau Community Charter School, opened my eyes to words. I finished off my K-12 education...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2013-05-08/college-experiment-how-one-student-ua
Opinion
William Dean Overstreet

...Harborview School and was a Stream Guard in Haines.He began his teaching career in Juneau in September 1952 as an 8th grade teacher at Capital School. He spent his summers commercial fishing until it was necessary for him to return to college for...

http://www.legacy.com/Link.asp?I=LS000164901079
Trinidad, Serroels to wed

...School and attended the University of Alaska Southeast. She is employed with Muckleshoot Tribal School as a sixth-grade teacher.The prospective groom is the son of Melanie and Randy Serroels of Camano Island, Wash. He graduated from Eastlake...

http://juneauempire.com/weddings/2013-03-24/trinidad-serroels-wed
Weddings
Now, what about Ray

...the linebacker is "a saint," the line was crossed.This is football we're talking about, not work of second-grade teachers and surgeons and Dumb Friends League volunteers and firemen.We can all agree on that, right?That's why I'm...

http://juneauempire.com/sports/2013-01-28/now-what-about-ray
Sports
Mayor's Awards for the Arts recipients honored

...an organizer and as an exceptional artist in her own right.? Arts in Education: Gastineau School fourth & fifth grade teacher Shgen George uses place-based arts to inspire children to learn history, social studies, and mathematics. She...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2013-02-14/mayors-awards-arts-recipients-honored
Art
Jean Rogers' 'sense of delight'

...writer, even as a young girl. She always had something to write on."Rogers' first job at 19 was as a fifth-grade teacher. After saving up enough money from teaching, she headed to the University of California at Berkeley to get her bachelor's...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2013-02-27/sense-delight
Art
JSD nurses plead for higher staffing levels in new budget

...We want them to be healthy and we want them to be safe and we have this odd system," Burgan said.JSD fifth-grade teacher Adam Berkey said he feels that the current school nurse situation could cause "huge regrets" going forward."I...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2013-01-10/jsd-nurses-plead-higher-staffing-levels
Local
Photo: Message on a blackboard

JoAnn Jones, a fifth-grade teacher at Auke Bay Elementary, stands next to a chalkboard with the signatures of former teacher Julie Gwyther's fourth-grade students...

http://juneauempire.com/neighbors/2013-01-20/message-blackboard
Neighbors
Teen overcomes blindness after seeing for years

...students to the education field. During the second semester, she completed a practicum experience with a first-grade teacher at Chukker Creek Elementary School. She thoroughly enjoyed the experience, teaching some lessons herself with the...

http://juneauempire.com/neighbors/2012-07-01/teen-overcomes-blindness-after-seei
Neighbors

CONTACT US

  • Switchboard: 907-586-3740
  • Circulation and Delivery: 907-523-2295
  • Newsroom Fax: 907-586-3028
  • Business Fax: 907-586-9097
  • Accounts Receivable: 907-523-2270
  • View the Staff Directory
  • or Send feedback

ADVERTISING

SUBSCRIBER SERVICES

SOCIAL NETWORKING