Angoon News

Walter Soboleff has done a lot in his 100-plus years on Earth, but his family's gift of a cruise through the Panama Canal is something new.

Recent births at the Bartlett Regional Hospital: * On Oct. 16, 2009, a daughter, Grace Elizabeth Roberto, weighing 8 pounds, 12 ounces, to Elizabeth Siguenza and Jeffrey Concepcion Roberto, of Juneau.

The city of Angoon has been granted a preliminary permit for the Ruth Lake hydropower project.

The Alaska Federation of Natives will debate a subsistence resolution October 24, organizers said.

In my 20-plus years of work as a fisheries biologist with the state Fish & Game's Division of Commercial Fisheries, and then 8 years with the U.S. Forest Service, I can sympathize with Sen.

State Sen. Albert Kookesh believes Alaska Natives may be forced to file a class action lawsuit against the federal government to restore subsistence rights secured under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.

PETERSBURG, AK The city of Angoon has won a preliminary permit for studying a proposed power plant at Scenery Creek, in Thomas Bay north of Petersburg.

The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium Health Promotion, Diabetes and Lifestyle Balance programs will host the second annual "Just Move It" day of activities on Saturday, Oct.

Tyler Michael Frisby is pleased to announce the most recent engagement of his parents, Melissa May Kookesh, of Angoon, and Charlie Patterson Frisby, of Hydaburg.

One out of three Sheakleys won their bouts when family members from Angoon took Roughhouse boxing at Marlintini's by sheer numbers.

Recent births at Bartlett Regional Hospital: * On Sept. 8, 2009, a son, Victor Scott Beechum, weighing 8 pounds, 4 ounces, to Kelli Jo and Eric Jay Beechum, of Juneau.

SITKA, ALASKA State senator Albert Kookesh and three other Angoon residents were cited by state troopers on July 12th for catching more sockeye salmon in a beach seine than allowed under subsistence permit rules.

Recent births at Bartlett Regional Hospital: * On July 10, 2009, a daughter, Kajustee Macie Garrison, weighing 8 pounds, 3 ounces, to Linda Marie Jacobs and Al Garrison, of Douglas.

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski welcomed the U.S. Department of Energy's decision Thursday to award up to $13.6 million in Indian energy grants nationwide, including $3.36 million in awards to Alaska villages and Native corporations and tribal groups.

The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium Health Promotion, Diabetes and Lifestyle Balance programs is looking for community partners for "Just Move It" activities on Saturday, Oct.

Tenakee Springs School & the town's 'main drag' In Tenakee Springs -- 45 miles southwest of Juneau -- school's out for summer.

The combination of alcohol, a 3-inch knife and a pipe proved a bloody milieu at Switzer Creek Trailer Court on Saturday night.

Residents of Angoon are one step closer to realizing a hydroelectric facility to power their community-a facility which could potentially lower the cost of electric bills and reduce the village's dependence on expensive diesel-generated power.

Most parents want to protect their children from tobacco and alcohol, but it may surprise them to know where most youth who use tobacco and/or alcohol get their supplies.

A 24-year-old man has been charged with sexually assaulting two girls in the southeast Alaska community of Angoon.