Sand Point News

Have you ever flown across the country and looked down on all the little cities and towns passing below your feet? Traffic flows by on highways, smoke drifts up from chimneys and lights shine from homes as hundreds of million Americans going about their daily lives.

Link: Dutch Harbor Fisherman Among the passengers delayed from getting to Southwest Alaska and the Aleutians when the Alaska State Ferry Tustumena broke down in Homer recently were two female bison being transported to Sand Point to diversify the gene pool of the Popof Island herd.

Bristol Bay's famed sockeye salmon run started showing signs of a strong return in mid-June, and by June 29 the bay's harvest surpassed 8 million reds, more than double the return by that date a year ago.

Lately, however, the borough's relationship with MMS has become strained, raising the possibility that a friend might turn against the controversial Lease Sale 214.