The chartered passenger service was designed with apparently little coordination with destination communities.
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House Speaker Stutes announces 2 appointees to the state’s ferry oversight board
Shirley Marquardt and Wanetta Ayers will join the recently formed Alaska Marine Highway Operations Board.
Alaska DOT contracted private charters for Pelican and Gustavus. Two weeks later, they’re still waiting.
The Alaska Marine Highway System has only two vessels running, leaving many coastal communities without ferries.
Ferry LeConte to give Pelican a lift in late May
Amid a months-long ferry drought, the town of Pelican got a bit of good news this week — the ferry LeConte will make at least one stop there in the spring.