...as the Yakutat Salvage Sale II Project, it declined to join the tribal suit. Yakutat city planner Skip Ryman said Yakutat Borough officials believe the timber salvage project is responsible economic development. He added, "Our position right...
...workers before being flown to a hospital, according to Yakutat's officials. Alaska Natives, who make up half the Yakutat borough population, worry the huge ships may be disturbing seals that raise their pups on ice floes near the glacier. They...
...Geohedral's original founders. Beard Co. president and chief financial officer Herb Mee declined to comment on the issue. Yakutat Borough manager Skip Ryman said the company was very optimistic when it first started surveying the area about 45 miles east...
...Air Service is now carrying mail into Yakutat six days a week. Alaska Airlines also continues to carry some mail. Yakutat Borough Manager Don Braun said service seems to have improved. Borough officials at first worried that diverting mail from...
...boats to meet the ships," said Raymond Sensmeier, vice president of the Alaska Native Brotherhood Grand Camp. The Yakutat Borough Assembly, in an attempt to lessen impacts from increasing tour boat traffic, recently approved a head tax on passengers...
...to an estimated 8,894 on July 1, 2002. The biggest percentage drop in Alaska was the 4.9 percent fall in the Yakutat Borough, to an estimated 724 people. The biggest increase, 4.2 percent, occurred in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough...
...down at the coffee shop showed me his. My gut reaction is let's just see where the cards fall." Ryman said the Yakutat Borough Assembly knows the case, the people involved, and the tax code pertaining to those named in the court documents...
...Ketchikan Gateway Borough at 10.9 percent, Haines Borough at 14.6 percent, Wrangel-Petersburg at 15.7 percent, Yakutat Borough at 16.3 percent, Prince of Wales Island at 20.5 percent, Skagway at 12.16 percent, and Hoonah-Angoon at...
...others. The Bethel area, which ranked second from the bottom, registered a decrease of 2.2 percent, while the Yakutat Borough showed a 1.8 percent decline. The average income in the North Slope Borough dropped 0.7 percent, but it still...
The Yakutat borough and environmental groups are protesting...acres in the western portion of the Yakutat borough - comprises at least 10 to 15 percent...said Skip Ryman, planner for the Yakutat borough. One river, the Tsiu, is a rapidly...
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