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Catholic Social Services of Alaska said its refugee resettlement division is preparing to welcome 50 to 100 Afghans, beginning this month.

Much like mitigation measures in the outside world, strategies for preventing the spread of COVID-19 in schools are ever-changing. Juneau School District Superintendent Bridget Weiss gives an update on what the district is doing to keep its students and staff healthy.

September is also Suicide Prevention Awareness Month and one Juneau nonprofit wants people to know they’re not alone.

The festival will include a cultural summit, an Indigenous peoples’ forum, traditional sports competitions and a 43-mile boat crossing of the Bering Strait.

As hospitals throughout the Pacific Northwest struggle to house and transfer patients, Bartlett Regional Hospital is suspending “non-urgent” procedures for the next two weeks. 

The zine’s creators encourage anyone with a connection to Alaska to submit. They can send in whatever they care about and think would be meaningful to the community, whether that’s art or poetry or photography.

Juneau city officials reported 32 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday.

During the first week of August, the city came to the camp — which it uses as a snow dump in the winter — and posted white paper signs on the trees. The signs gave the legally required notice to dozens of campers that they must leave within 10 days.

The share of Alaska’s population that identifies as a race or ethnicity other than solely white rose from less than a third of the population to more than than 40%.

Maggie moved to Anchorage in 1983 as a young orphan from southern Africa. She stayed for 24 years before moving to a sanctuary in California.