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Steerpike's JournalASD teacher accused of abusing autistic student
[link:http://www.ktva.com/story/38965096/asd-teacher-accused-of-abusing-autistic-student|
An Anchorage School District (ASD) teacher is accused of abusing an autistic child at Ptarmigan Elementary School in May.
According to a public criminal complaint document, Lynn Sherwood, 53, is charged with one misdemeanor count of child abuse for an incident in which she allegedly pushed an 8-year-old boy back into a doorway
Parents Nicholas and Katherine Armon identified that student as their son, now 9-year-old Austin Armon, who they describe as a high functioning autistic student attending classes in an integrated classroom.
In defense of King Cove deal, federal attorneys argue swap legal under ANILCA
[link:http://www.alaskajournal.com/2018-08-24/defense-king-cove-deal-federal-attorneys-argue-swap-legal-under-anilca#.W4P9IM4zrow|
Federal attorneys insist an environmental coalition wildly misconstrues several federal laws in its suit against Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke over a land swap that would facilitate a road out of the Alaska Peninsula community of King Cove.
Filed in U.S. District Court of Alaska Aug. 22 with Judge Timothy M. Burgess, Justice Department attorneys argued that the land exchange announced in January complies with the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act but falls outside the purview of other environmental laws in a 42-page opposition response to the coalition’s July 11 summary judgment motion.
Friends of Alaska Wildlife Refuges, the Alaska Wilderness League, The Wilderness society and six other national conservation groups sued Zinke in late January shortly after the he signed a land exchange with King Cove Corp., an Alaska Native village corporation.
Alleged sexual abuse shocks Dimond High football
[link:http://www.ktva.com/story/38933338/alleged-sexual-abuse-shocks-dimond-high-football|
Anchorage police and school officials are investigating an incident of sexual abuse involving members of Dimond High School’s football team, which reportedly occurred during a weekend trip to Fairbanks.
The team did not practice for a second straight day Tuesday. Instead, parents and players met exclusively with administrators during a closed-door meeting at the school. Anchorage police are investigating the incident that reportedly happened Saturday in Fairbanks, where Dimond played Lathrop High School.
Neither APD nor ASD officials provided details about the incident Tuesday, but a man who emerged from the meeting said it occurred in Fairbanks, as Dimond’s varsity and junior varsity teams visited for a Saturday game.
Saving Orphaned Baby Grizzlies
[link:https://craigmedred.news/2018/08/13/saving-babies/|
After much lobbying by citizens of Seward, a small town at the head of Alaska’s Resurrection Bay, an effort is underway to rescue two orphaned grizzly bear cubs that have become a city attraction and a city worry.
Since their mother was shot and killed raiding a chicken coop at the end of July, the Facebook page Seward, AK Bear & Wildlife Report has been buzzing with reports of the cubs’ movements and concerns about their welfare.
Out of fear the cubs might get run over by the tourist traffic on the summer busy Seward Highway that runs 120 miles north to Alaska’s largest city, one area resident on Sunday reportedly posted signs warning people to slow down and watch for the bears.
Dangerous Alaska White Water kills again
[link:https://craigmedred.news/2018/08/06/water-kills-again/|
The growing Alaska sport of packrafting has tragically added to the number of drowning victims in America’s largest national park this year.
Officials in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve along the U.S.-Canada border in Eastcentral Alaska today reported 22-year-old Austrian Aidan Don died in the Nizina River late last week.
His death follows on the heels of that of two Missouri hikers swept away by the Sanford River and killed in the heart of the park in late June.
(Alaska has killed a couple of tourist this year...)
Quota raised for subsistence hunting of Chukchi polar bears
[link:http://www.ktva.com/story/38807421/quota-raised-for-subsistence-hunting-of-chukchi-polar-bears|
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The commission that manages the polar bear population shared by the United States and Russia has increased the quota of bears that can be harvested by subsistence hunters.
The U.S.-Russia Polar Bear Commission increased the harvest level for bears in the Chukchi Sea from 58 to 85 bears split between the two countries.
The decision came after the commission heard new estimates of the bear population. The commission met last week in Egvekinot (eeg-VEK-in-not) in Chukotka, Russia.
Marijuana taxes exceed expectations
[link:http://www.ktva.com/story/38793080/marijuana-taxes-exceed-expectations|
Nearly a $1 million on average-- that's how much the state collected in marijuana taxes for the fiscal year that ended June 30.
June was the highest month ever, bringing in more than $1.2 million.
It was $11 million total for the 2018 fiscal year, which is higher than was forecast. In the previous fiscal, year the state collected about $1.7 million.
(Wooo Hooo!)
Fisheries Collapse in Alaska Kenai collapse
[link:https://craigmedred.news/2018/07/31/kenai-collapse/|
Alaska’s most famous salmon river is heading into August on the cusp of an unprecedented salmon collapse.
Not since 1979, when the 49th state was still battling back from a salmon crash caused by less than stellar fisheries management and a two-decade-long, cold-water regime in the North Pacific Ocean, has the Kenai River neared the end of July with so few sockeye salmon in-river.
The sockeye failure has forced a temporary closure in the commercial fishery that looks to become permanent even as anger level rises; an early end to the popular personal-use dipnet fishery that helps tens of thousands of Alaskans fill their freezers in the name of food security; a no-harvest rule in the fading fishery for the rivers once famous Chinook, and a reduction in the sport-fish bag limit for sockeye salmon which has come fuel a good chunk of the Kenai Peninsula tourism industry.
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