Theo Greenly
Senior ReporterTheo 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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Gregory Golodoff was sitting in a sod house when the soldiers arrived. “We had heard machine gunfire from this side, this side, you know. I forgot who it was told us they’re coming from this side, they’re coming from that,” Golodoff said in a 2018 interview — 75 years after the Battle of Attu. The Japanese Imperial Army invaded the Unangax̂ village in 1942, where the three-year-old Golodoff lived with his family.
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Unalaska has about 4,000 residents and a salty reputation. But some residents are working to show that there's more to the town than its status as a legendary fishing port.
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Three Unalaska wrestlers will be heading to the Alaska State Championships this weekend, after several of the student athletes placed at the Great Alaska Conference wrestling regionals in Bethel on Friday. Lynn Fayram took first place in the 145 pound girls weight class. In boys, Cache Henning took second place in 125 pounds and Kaidon Parker took second place in 160.
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The Alaska Marine Highway System released a draft of the 2024 summer ferry schedule on Tuesday, proposing the same number of Aleutian Chain runs as the last two years.
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Coaching Boys into Men is a violence-prevention program that works to change the attitudes and behavior of men, who are primarily those responsible for sexual assaults and domestic violence.
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Archpriest Michael James Oleksa of the Russian Orthodox Church passed away during the wee hours Wednesday morning after having suffered a stroke. Oleksa became a prominent figure in the Alaska Diocese after arriving in the state in 1970, when he moved to an Alutiiq village in Kodiak.
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The Army Corps of Engineers has wrapped up to major cleanup efforts in the Unalaska Valley this summer, with more plans on the way.
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The last surviving person from Attu, Gregory Golodoff, passed away earlier this month at the age of 84. Golodoff was a young child in 1942 when the Japanese Imperial Army invaded his village in the western Aleutians. The Battle of Attu was the last major action of the Aleutian Islands campaign of World War II.
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Brian Rankin won the race for School Board Seat B during a runoff election held in Unalaska Oct. 30 — he received 55% of the 140 total votes.
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The military team used explosives to dispose of the munition where it was found — in the middle of the 315,000 acre refuge, which contains one of the world’s largest eelgrass beds.