SITKA - Lynne Brandon, parks and recreation manager for the City and Borough of Sitka, has won the "GreenBelt" Award from the Alaska Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects...
...community in 2003. An architect, she has worked for architecture firms in Anchorage and, most recently, as a project manager for the City and Borough of Juneau architecture division.Her longtime interests, however, have included food security and...
The police and fire departments are investigating a suspicious early morning fire at Adair-Kennedy Memorial Park, next to Floyd Dryden Middle School.
Defying National Weather Service forecasts for minor flooding Friday morning, Mendenhall Lake and Mendenhall River swelled to water level peaks well below their flood stages shortly after midnight as subglacial drainage brought high water to parts of the Mendenhall Valley.Forecasters issued a Flood Advisory Thursday and predicted waters would rise high enough to cover parts of View Drive and Mendenhall Lake Spur Road and flood a few houses' yards and garages by 4 a.m. Friday. The peak was much lower, and much earlier than forecast.
The police and fire departments are investigating attempted arson at Adair-Kennedy Memorial Park, making it the second time the park has been targeted in the past 30 days.
...put them in the garage, or put them inside the front door," Fritsch said.Tom Mattice, emergency programs manager for the City and Borough of Juneau, advised residents to "just start thinking about winter, obviously.""If you have outbuildings...
...occurring depends on how vulnerable a land formation is to sliding into the water.Tom Mattice, emergency programs manager for the City and Borough of Juneau, offered a rather dark assessment of the possibility of a localized tsunami triggered by...
...would examine the political landscape of operating in international waters, he said. Lamar Cotton, a project manager for the city of Adak, said the route could provide alternative passages between Europe and the Northern Pacific, allowing ships...
...like our judge's actions are protecting my daughters or granddaughter. I pray no other children are harmed by their misguided compassion for these predators. Juneau resident Michael Patterson is the emergency programs manager for the city.
No construction was done on the Dzantik'i Heeni Middle School building this summer. But when students return to the school Wednesday, they'll find a new laboratory to help them study wetland ecosystems. Dzantik'i Heeni teachers and students worked this summer with the nonprofit organization Trail Mix, city engineers and the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife to turn what once was a gravel pit behind the Juneau Police Department station in Lemon Creek into an outdoor laboratory for students.
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