A musician well-known in the Ketchikan jazz community and who performed at First City Players Jazz and Cabaret Festival for more than a dozen years has died.
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Deadline approaches to file for Ketchikan office
With just a few days left for candidates to file for local office, the ballot so far is looking pretty sparse.
Preserving the history of Alaska’s canned seafood
A historian is researching the past of Alaska’s canneries and a Petersburg woman has volunteered her collection of canned salmon labels.
Ketchikan resident trains to be Navy pilot
Ketchikan native and 2008 Kayhi graduate Mari Freitag is in Corpus Christi, Texas, participating in a training program that transforms U.S. Navy officers into Navy pilots. Ensign Freitag is a student naval aviator with the “Rangers” Training Squadron that operates the T-6 Texan II aircraft.
Additional charges filed against man accused in girlfriend’s strangling death
Additional charges have been filed against a Prince of Wales Island man accused in the death of his girlfriend. Albert Peter Macasaet III, 27, is charged in the July 31 strangling death of Judylee Guthrie, 27, of Hydaburg.
Engineless boat ‘Race to Alaska’ that ends in Ketchikan is on for 2017
Organizers announced last week that the Race to Alaska is a go for the summer of 2017. The 750-mile engineless boat race begins with a qualifying heat from Port Townsend, Washington, to Vancouver, British Columbia.