The M/V Tustumena returns to service in the Aleutians this week; Alaskans have less than a week to register to vote in the August 16 special general election and primary; and two Alaska Native girls who died at a boarding school more than 100 years ago will return home.
Laurelin Kruse is a writer and radio producer from rural Colorado. She has a BA in American Studies from Yale, and she learned radio at the Transom Story Workshop in Massachusetts, where she reported stories for the local public radio station. Kruse is excited to spend the summer roaming the tundra and doing stories for the Unalaska community.