Kake News

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The Coast Guard is recognizing the crew of the Alaska Marine Highway System ferry Taku in a ceremony today for their rescue of two men off the fishing vessel Alaskan Pride in Chatham Strait last week.

But for 17 years, the mobile mammogram van has brought breast cancer screening directly to women of Southeast Alaska's rural communities.

Link: KFSK A man hunting near Kake in Southeast Alaska recently bagged a moose that was legal based on its antlers, but he soon discovered the animal was female.

Late Tuesday last week, Capt. Mike Worthington was running the 55-foot Alaskan Pride tender near Funter Bay, about 15 miles south of Point Retreat in Chatham Straits.

AK Planners are taking a closer look at the problems of combining a road with the power line project from Petersburg to Kake.

The Village is a Daily News blog about life and politics in rural Alaska. Its main author is ADN reporter Kyle Hopkins.

The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium announced Friday that Dr. Jessica Scott, a Juneau-Douglas High School graduate, has joined the medical staff at its Ethel Lund Medical Center in Juneau.

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.

Recent births at Bartlett Regional Hospital: * On Aug. 31, 2009, a daughter, Lillian Betty James, weighing 8 pounds, 7 ounces, to Ladonna Elaine and Michael David James, of Kake.

AK The Petersburg City Council will be urging the state to keep at least one full-time children's social worker in town.

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.

Coeur Alaska Inc. has awarded the principal civil and piping contract for remaining construction at the Kensington Mine to a joint venture of AIC, an Alaska-based contractor, and Kake Tribal Corp., an Alaska Native corporation.

Scott McPherson held a fresh sockeye down on a cutting table Saturday at the Juneau Farmers Market and Local Food Festival in front of nearly a dozen people as he began to demonstrate how to properly fillet a salmon.

Coeur Alaska has awarded a construction contract for a tailings facility at the Kensington Mine 45 miles north of Juneau.

The collapse of the city of Pelican's water flume last week is the latest in a flood of bad news to hit this beleaguered fishing port.

The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium is hosting a grand opening ceremony starting at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, Aug.

Does the recent sunshine remind you of even more reasons you love the Tongass? Does seeing a doe and fawn or humpback and calf inspire you to write? Then it's time to take a few moments to capture why you love the Tongass in writing by submitting an essay for the "I Love the Tongass" essay contest.

The Juneau Farmer's Market and Local Food Festival will return on Saturday, Aug.

The Juneau Farmer's Market and Local Food Festival will return on Saturday, Aug.