This year’s contributions include stories from mail carriers in Appalachia and healthcare workers in the Hudson River Valley. Wisniewski’s recordings will be the first from Alaska.
"Seldovia"
Alaskans we’ve lost to COVID: Elizabeth Ketah, family matriarch
Elizabeth Ketah was born in Seldovia, met her husband while in boarding school at Mt. Edgecumbe and then moved to Ketchikan.
A melting glacier could mean a chance for Alaska’s biggest hydroelectric project to expand
Bradley Lake is the largest hydroelectric facility in Alaska and sends power to utilities across the railbelt. The Alaska Energy Authority says diverting water from the Dixon Glacier could bolster the project’s capacity by 50%.
She-Ra is a sailboat and a malamute. They stopped in Haines on their way around the world
With distinct black and white markings, She-Ra is from a line of malamute sled dogs in Juneau.
In Alaska, public health has a deep history of adventure and the COVID-19 vaccine is living up to it
Vials have been airlifted to villages chartered planes. Others were driven through choppy seas on a water taxi. And some of the clinicians giving shots in rural Alaska were even shuttled around villages on sleds, pulled behind snowmachines.
State calls lean winter ferry schedule ‘the best we could do’
Hoonah, Gustavus, Angoon, Pelican and Tenakee Springs will see a nearly two-month winter gap without service.
As COVID-19 spikes in Alaska, Kenai Peninsula emerges as virus hotspot
While the Kenai transforms into a tourism and fishing hub during the summer, officials there don’t blame the high case rate on any particular factor.
Ferry Tustumena crew member tests positive for COVID-19, passengers quarantined
It was the first trip back in service for the ferry, it stopped at 8 communities between Homer and Unalaska.
Alaska communities establish new plan to collect sales tax from online vendors
The Alaska Municipal League says the goal is to eliminate a major disadvantage local brick-and-mortar businesses face when competing with online stores.
Seldovia’s water shortage is over, but plans to avoid another one are just getting going
Things are getting back to normal for the roughly 500 people who live in the area, though the recovery will take a while. The neighboring village of Nanwalek is still under a boil-water notice.