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Theo Greenly
Senior Reporter│EditorTheo Greenly is a reporter and Report for America corps member. He got his start in public radio at KCRW in Santa Monica, California. Since then, he's produced radio stories around the country, worked on podcasts at NPR, and contributed to the Los Angeles Times, Science Friday and NPR's Invisibilia. When not reporting, he’s probably looking for someone to go hiking with. Wanna go for a hike?
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The City of Unalaska honored the city’s firefighters during an Unalaska City Council meeting Tuesday night. Mayor Vincent Tutiakoff Sr. commended the department for responding to several recent emergencies, including a fire at Eagle's View Elementary School on July 3, just before the Independence Day fireworks celebration.
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Unalaska’s Robert Storrs Small Boat Harbor could get a facelift as soon as next summer. The Unalaska City Council earlier this month approved an application for a $5 million grant to replace the harbor’s floats. The harbor is located behind the fish processing plant, UniSea, and serves the community’s smaller boats, under 60 feet. It currently provides moorage for about 70 vessels. The proposed plan would add about 40 slips, as well as increased parking and a public restroom.
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When Peter Pan Seafood Co. announced in April they were ceasing all operations, the City of King Cove lost its only economic engine. Now, the town is struggling to survive, while Alaska’s seafood industry continues on an uncertain path.
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Communities in the Aleutians are pushing back against proposed legislation that would bring stricter regulations to the Bering Sea trawl fishery. Trade organizations and some coastal communities whose economies rely on trawl fisheries have pushed back against the bill, asking the congresswoman to repeal it.
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Rumors of Joshua Gould’s detainment have circulated widely on social media in recent months, but charges were not formally filed until Wednesday.
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Unalaska City officials say the cause of the fire at Eagle's View Elementary School does not appear to be suspicious in nature. Firefighters responded to a fire at the school on Wednesday night shortly before midnight. The fire’s cause was unknown and there were no people were injured in the blaze.
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Alaska Airlines has suspended its mileage-sharing agreement with Ravn after what an Alaska Airlines representative called the result of Ravn’s recent “transition in leadership.”
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Representatives from Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan’s offices arrived in Sand Point Monday, their first stop on a multi-city tour around the region. The trip, which will include stops in King Cove and False Pass, comes ahead of a strategic plan the senators are expected to present to the Secretary of Commerce this summer.
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Fishermen-owned Silver Bay already operates a facility in False Pass, just next to the Trident plant. Silver Bay President and CEO Cora Campbell said owning adjacent facilities would make operations more efficient, and allow them to provide more opportunities to the fleet.
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It was wet and windy in Cordova on Saturday. Still though, around 50 people showed up at the dock for the dedication of the Alaska Wildlife Troopers’ newest boat, the P/V Arduser, named after retired Trooper Alex Arduser, who died one year ago while on a hunting trip in Prince William Sound.