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Cruise ship helps stranded skiff and crew in Southeast Alaska as Zuckerberg yacht stands by

  • James Brooks

A small cruise ship operating in Southeast Alaska made an unexpected detour on Monday night to help a 21-foot skiff that ran out of fuel between Petersburg and Juneau. Michael Love, a software developer from New York City, was a passenger aboard the cruise ship and described the event on social media.  What got his […]

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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 […]