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Sitka parks manager wins landscape award

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...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-04-28/sitka-parks-manager-wins-landscape-awar
State
New Extension agent to serve Southeast

...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...

http://juneauempire.com/node/26297
Neighbors
Arson delays football field work

The police and fire departments are investigating a suspicious early morning fire at Adair-Kennedy Memorial Park, next to Floyd Dryden Middle School.

http://juneauempire.com/local/2012-06-19/arson-delays-football-field-work
Local
Mendenhall Lake, River crested well below flood stage early Friday morning

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.

http://juneauempire.com/local/2012-07-06/mendenhall-lake-river-crested-well-belo
Local
Another attempted arson at Adair-Kennedy Memorial Park

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.

http://juneauempire.com/local/2012-07-11/another-attempted-arson-adair-kennedy-m
Local
First frost Monday morning just about on schedule

...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...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-02/first-frost-monday-morning-just-about-s
Local
Seismologist: Possible for major quake to 'stress' faultline

...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...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-31/seismologist-possible-major-quake-stres
Local
State to fund study of polar cargo route

...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...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/060505/sta_20050605012.shtml
News
My turn: Minimum sentences don't protect public from offenders

...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.

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/081005/opi_20050810003.shtml
Opinion
New park becomes outdoor lab

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.

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/082603/loc_newpark.shtml
News

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