Douglas News

ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. & Fri., Noon-1pm, Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game Sport Fish Division is conducting a photo contest.

Juneau resident Virginia Beaumont Post died Nov. 3, 2009, in Bartlett Hospital in Juneau.

If I was queen, I would tell the city of Juneau to open up the old abandoned Gastineau Elementary School in Douglas to all homeless people in the Juneau area.

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.

Recent births at the Juneau Family Health and Birth Center: * On Oct. 12, 2009, a son, Trevor James Scheel, weighing 8 pounds, 10 ounces, to Le Ann Scheel, of Juneau.

Juneau police and fire officials reported: Burglary: * At 7:42 p.m. Friday, a woman reported approximately $100 in change was stolen from her residence in the 8300 block of Aspen Avenue.

Mining built Juneau, and with the Kensington mine's imminent opening, mining will play a bigger role in the future as well.

Sgt. Austen Clair, a 2003 graduate of Juneau-Douglas High School, returned from a year's deployment to Iraq with the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry from Fort Wainwright on Sept.

Evening at Egan: "The Exxon Valdez Oil spill IMPACT: on Ecology and Community" talk by author Riki Ott, 7 p.m., University of Alaska Southeast Egan Library.

Three road-kill porcupines appeared overnight on the North Douglas Highway last week, a reminder it's mating season for these big rodents.

Juneau-Douglas cross country captains, from left, Annika Ord, Leah Francis, Dawson Walker and Robin Woodby lead the Crimson Bears along the Treadwell Mines Trails course on Tuesday evening.

That's the reaction Rabbi Scott Sperling said he received after telling members in a New York Jewish community he would be officiating there during the High Holy Days, which began Friday evening with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.

As an Assembly member, Dave Stone has been an advocate for mining and the Juneau road.

Jumbo Gym Preschool Open Gym - Preschool open gym begins Sept. 8 and runs through April, from 10:30 a.m. to noon, Monday through Friday, in Douglas.

Recent births at Bartlett Regional Hospital: On Aug. 24, 2009, a daughter, Koree Lynn Marshall, weighing 7 pounds, 7 ounces, to Cassandra Lynn Smith, of Juneau.

Rising fuel costs have been a thorn in the side of many vessel-based tour operators, but not for Captain John George of the Juneau Steamboat Co.

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.

Copies of "Hear of Abigail: A lyric Novella of Juneau, Douglas and Treadwell," written by local architect and writer, Rich Ritter are now available for purchase at Hearthside Books.

For their first first Friday, the University of Alaska Southeast Bookstore by the Bay will host Douglas painter, Elise Tomlinson's "Island of Misfit Paintings". Tomlinson's show will feature both some of her new and older work including nudes in nature, portraits, flowers, landscapes and more abstract pieces.