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Juneau residents grapple with whether to stay or flee as glacial outburst floodwaters rise

  • Alix Soliman, KTOO, Clarise Larson, KTOO, Corinne Smith

As the Mendenhall River swells with glacial outburst floodwater, hundreds of people living in the suburban valley below spent Tuesday night and Wednesday preparing to evacuate or hunker down. The National Weather Service predicts the flood will crest Thursday. Officials managing the flood response recommended residents evacuate by 3 p.m. On Marion Drive, Ann Lind […]

Commentary

A tale of Anatevka — and small town Alaska

  • Bruce Botelho

Recent federal immigration enforcement events in Juneau, mirrored in small towns and big cities across America, bring to mind the musical Fiddler on the Roof and the fictional shtetl of Anatevka in early 20th century Russia. There, villagers eke out an existence largely isolated from the political currents of the outside world, hoping to be […]