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Aug 09 2018
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Watch: Project Playground community build in 360°

By | Community, Juneau

The construction of Project Playground continues until the end of the day Sunday. The project is still seeking volunteers with different levels of experience (including kids over 10) and also needs to borrow tools including drills, speed squares, carpenters squares, tape measures, and 4-foot levels. Watch a sneak peak of the new Project Playground construction in 360 degrees.

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Aug 06 2018
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Dannielle Carbone points out a semiprecious stone to explain to customers what they are and where they come from. She set up shop this June at her boat in Dillingham's PAF boatyard. (Photo by Austin Fast/KDLG)

Out-of-state fishermen find their second family in Bristol Bay

By | Arts & Culture, Community, Fisheries, Southwest

Most of the year, Dillingham’s boatyards are peaceful parking lots. They transform entirely for just a couple short weeks before the sockeye salmon run in early June and at the end of the season in late July. Fishermen flood into Bristol Bay from around the globe, creating a diverse itinerant community complete with vendors hawking their wares.

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Aug 03 2018
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At the dig site, doctoral student Jonathan Lim takes a short break. Lim, who is from Malaysia, is one of many archaeologists from around the world who worked in Nunalleq this summer. (Photo by Teresa Cotsirilos/KYUK)

Largest shipment of Yup’ik artifacts in the world arrives in Quinhagak

By | Alaska Native Arts & Culture, Arts & Culture, Community, History, Southwest

The world’s largest collection of Yup’ik artifacts finally has arrived home in Quinhagak on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta coast. After shipping delays in Europe, the Nunalleq artifacts have returned in time for the community’s museum opening.

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