Author: alaskaadmin

Sunday, July 26 

A citizen turned in a backpack with items in it at the 30 Block of Second Ave; property logged in lost and found. 

A caller reported they could not find their children at Front St; HBPD officer advised. Caller reported children found. 

A caller requested a welfare check on a citizen at the 3000 Block of Mud Bay Rd; HBPD officer advised. An HBPD officer performed a follow up report at…

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They call chickens “the gateway animal” as they are generally the first animal on the homestead — so easy to raise and so useful. 

They are more than happy to recycle your kitchen waste and garden weeds into the highest quality protein, the one by which all other proteins are measured, with about six grams of protein per egg. 

A young hen will start laying by around six months old and will lay well for…

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A few years ago, June Miller decided it was time for a change. After 20-plus years of going by “June,” it was time to change back to her given name, Marjory. 

“She never even said why – it was just, all of a sudden, ‘nope, everybody’s going to call me Marjory now, stop calling me June, gotta make a change,’” said daughter Alexis Grant. 

That, along with her purple hair, was one of the latest…

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Longtime Chilkat Valley resident Marilyn Wilson died June 26. She would have been 88 this month. 

Wilson was born Aug. 3, 1938, in Juneau to Norwegian mother Nancy Burke and Lingít father Ben Wright of Angoon. Marilyn was Teikweidí, brought in by the late Esther Shea of Ketchikan, and her Tlingit name was Gush gu ge’. She spent much of her youth in Skagway, as well as in Angoon with her father’s mother, who raised…

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