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University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension agent Sarah Lewis and Anchorage program manager Gina Dionne will offer a series of Tuesday evening online classes on preparing and preserving foods for the holidays. Participants will join Lewis on Zoom in her home kitchen in Juneau and Dionne in her’s in Anchorage on Tuesdays from 5:30-7:00 p.m. Videos of the class also will be available afterward. September 20: Create a Food Secure Pantry. Learn how to fill your pantry with staples and supplies to get you through winter emergencies. S...
September 1, 1922 While wandering on the beach at LaTouche recently Elmer Garnes, of Cordova, came upon a find of fifty pounds of ambergris. Word of the find was received in Cordova where Elmer’s friends will congratulate him on his luck. Ambergris is, according to scientific definition, a growth induced in the stomach of a whale that eventually produces fatal results. It is a very rare product and is mainly used in the manufacture of high grade perfumes. Garnes has sent a sample of his find to the laboratory of Stewart & Holmes of Seattle a...
Missouri State University graduate student Nathaniel Lenhard received the Lipman Research Award from the Geological Society of America. From Petersburg, Alaska, Lenhard will use the award to study igneous petrology and volcanology. He’s using mineral chemistry to determine the source and timescales of magmatism at the Ollague Volcano in Chile....
September 1, 1922 Opening a new market to Alaska salt herring, J. P. Todd, pioneer fish broker, recently sold 600 barrels of that product to a Siberian interest. The order came as a result of sample barrels which he sent into Siberia last year and the purchasers report that as soon as conditions become settled in that country, the demand for Alaskan salt herring will reach enormous proportions. The bill for the 600 barrels was paid in American money, spot cash. Because of existing conditions the shipments will be sent to Dairen, Manchuria, and...
August 25, 1922 Interest in the Southeastern Alaska County Fair has grown with surprising force during the last two weeks. The expression of good will toward the movement whose aim is to create local interest in home grown farm products and other articles of an Alaskan manufacture isn’t confined to any particular section or community, but is distributed over the greater part of Southeastern Alaska. Men who are engaged in almost every line of business have expressed their approval of holding an exhibit of this kind and offered to render the F...
This Merlin falcon spent around twenty minutes on a boat in South Harbor searching, according to the witness and photographer of the event, for the small bird it had chased into a collision with the boat's windows. "She was certain her prey was there and would not give up," wrote photographer Carol Ogden....
*To register a new student, please stop by the office at 303 Dolphin Street by August 29th *You will need to bring current immunization record and birth certificate (legible copy ok) *If you have any questions, please call the office at 907-302-2385 or 877-526-7656 ext. 400 Mrs. Willis, Kindergarten Erik Adams, Emma Aikins, Annika Barosy Flor, Ryder Bradford, Ole Buotte, Sawyer Cole, Cora Corrao, Brynnleigh Hudson, Henry Kandoll, Mateo Maldonado, Hayden McCay, Lawson Mullen, Amalia Norheim, Heidi Versteeg, Madalina Ward, Amara Westhoff Ms....
August 18, 1922 An all-Alaskan products dinner at which the Territory of Alaska will entertain five hundred Washington state newspaper men and their friends is the event planned as the closing feature of the eleventh annual Journalism Week next year. It will be the third in a series of State Press Association social affairs. The first was the Northwest products dinner, the second was the Hawaiian banquet. Alaska proposes next year to outdo all previous efforts. All foods used in the preparation of the dinner will be sent directly from the...
David and Tanya Somerville, the parents of Cole Michael Somerville, are happy to announce the marriage of Cole Somerville to Hatsumi Sekiguchi. Cole and Hatsumi met while Cole was traveling in Japan in the beginning of 2020. We were able to meet, and came to love, Hatsumi during her visit to Petersburg in the fall of 2020 through the beginning of 2021. While many marriages have been put on hold due to Covid restrictions, instead of delaying, Cole and Hatsumi decided to be married without a...
