“Only twenty people at a time,” says the tram operator, marking the first entry of coronavirus into my immediate world. It’s early March at Alyeska Resort. The pandemic has felt away from the United States, let alone Alaska, until now.
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ADN Wins Pulitzer-AP
NEW YORK (AP) — The Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica won the Pulitzer Prize in public service Monday for illuminating the sparse policing of remote Alaska villages
National Park Service Closures
AK Honors School Nutrition Heroes
School or No School, Alaska’s School Nutrition Heroes Feed Children Throughout the COVID19 Pandemic
Coping With the Pandemic
Provided as a public service from KCHU and Pass it On
McCarthy Road is Open
McCarthy Road is now open to public travel for the summer season and will be regularly maintained until October 1.
Portugal. The Man Steps Up-AP
“I think when it comes to stories and to books, we’re storytellers. You know, we’re songwriters and we’re storytellers and we take the situations and the experiences and the people that we meet and we kind of turn those into the stories that we carry on with us to the next place and to the next town. Storytelling is just kind of sacred to us and it just hits really close to home.”
RCAC Annual Meeting 5/7-8
Mat-Su bans 5 books -AP
The Matanuska-Susitna School Board has voted Wednesday 5-2 to remove “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison; “Catch-22” by Joseph Heller; “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien; “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou; and “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Career Advancement Center Cancels 2020 Heavy Equipment Academy
For the first time in 15 years, the Delta Career Advancement Center will not offer its annual heavy-equipment training academy because of concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic.
