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State planning replacement of Tustumena ferry

KODIAK - The state of Alaska is planning to replace a ferry that serves Kodiak and southwest Alaska but has been out of service for repairs since November.The 49-year-old vessel Tustumena had been scheduled to return...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-23/state-planning-replacement-tustumena-fe
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Rig manager testifies in Shell barge grounding

...Alert, a tug on loan from escorting Prince William Sound oil tankers, were briefly able to make headway pulling the Kulluk southwest away from land. But when the line to the Aiviq broke again, and with the Kulluk pulling the Alert toward Kodiak, Shell...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-23/rig-manager-testifies-shell-barge-groun
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Kodiak postmaster heads to Puerto Rico

...the Emerald Isle for Puerto Rico, where he will take over as postmaster of a US Postal Service office in Cabo Rojo on the southwest corner of the island.Kersch has served as the postmaster in Kodiak for about seven years. This new job is a promotion and...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-19/kodiak-postmaster-heads-puerto-rico
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Pavlof volcano shoots lava

...airplanes to fly nearby.A narrow ash plume extends a couple hundred miles southeast from the volcano, which is 625 miles southwest of Anchorage, said Geologist Chris Waythomas of the Alaska Volcano Observatory.The eruption that began Monday seemed to...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-19/pavlof-volcano-shoots-lava
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Trace volcano ash reaches small Alaska city

...said geologist Kristi Wallace of the Alaska Volcano Observatory.Pavlof is an 8,262-foot volcano located 625 miles southwest of Anchorage on the Alaska Peninsula, the finger of land that sticks out from mainland Alaska toward the Aleutian Islands...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-20/trace-volcano-ash-reaches-small-alaska-
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Volcano's ash prompts flight cancellations

...according to scientists. That's not to say it couldn't spew out much higher plumes, they said.The volcano 625 miles southwest of Anchorage is among the most active volcanoes in the region, with nearly 40 known eruptions, according to the observatory...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-21/volcanos-ash-prompts-flight-cancellatio
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Second volcano this month is heating up in Alaska

...Monday.Tremors were detected at Pavlof Volcano, 625 miles southwest of Anchorage, according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory...Cleveland is a 5,675-foot peak on a remote island 940 miles southwest of Anchorage. The volcano's most recent significant eruption...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-14/second-volcano-month-heating-alaska
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Agency to consider listing for lake seals

...November by the Center for Biological Diversity, kicking off a status review of the seals that live in Iliamna Lake 200 miles southwest of Anchorage.The animals are the only known U.S. freshwater population of harbor seals, but a listing carries the added...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-17/agency-consider-listing-lake-seals
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Minor lava flows detected on two Alaska volcanoes

...Observatory says satellite images show the lava partly down a flank of Pavlof Volcano Tuesday in a low-level eruption 625 miles southwest of Anchorage. Geophysicist Dave Schneider says minor steam and ash emissions are visible from the community of Cold Bay 37...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-15
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Alaska volcano continues to erupt with lava, ash

...the air.Onsite seismic instruments are picking up constant tremors from the eruption at Pavlof, located about 625 miles southwest of Anchorage in the Aleutian Islands.Residents of Cold Bay, 37 miles away, have reported seeing a glow from the summit...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-16/alaska-volcano-continues-erupt-lava-ash
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