Emma Shaffer
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Courtesy of Amber Web
In 2018, a Bristol Bay artist began to raise awareness of the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people. She sewed an enormous qaspeq and drew the faces of Alaska Native women who have gone missing or were murdered. That project has grown into an international call for action.
Alaska Department of Health and Social Services
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Izzy Ross
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KDLG
The City of Dillingham's budget is on track to finish the fiscal year in the black, according to Manager Robert Mawson. With two excise taxes on the docket and more financial planning ahead, KDLG talked to Mawson about where he sees things heading from here.
Tim Sands
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Alaska Department of Fish and Game
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The Dillingham City School District will receive the full $1.3 million it requested from the city for the upcoming fiscal year.
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Routine and emergency medical care are still available through BBAHC. Patients who need inpatient care are being diverted to hospitals outside Bristol Bay, typically by medevac
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Zach Kolbe signed his letter of intent to wrestle at the collegiate level this fall.
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Work to pave Dillingham's Nerka Drive and add a pedestrian pathway could begin as early as summer 2022.
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The ASAA Region 1 Solo & Ensemble Music Festival filled the Dillingham high school gym with music this weekend
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Students from Nome, Bethel, Unalakleet, Deering and Dillingham are competing and performing in the regional solo & ensemble music festival. Concerts on Friday and Saturday at the Dillingham High School gym are open to the public.
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Dillingham senior Demetry Hoseth signed a letter of intent to wrestle for Concordia College in Moorehead, Minnesota.
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Chief Ivan Blunka School’s principal says she’s proud of her advocacy to reduce teacher turnover and that it’s been an honor to call New Stuyahok home.
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Testing at the Dillingham airport and the Curyung COVID Response Center is closed, but free tests are still available in town.
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The City Council was set to consider extending the city manager's authority to enforce COVID regulations at its Thursday meeting, but half of the council failed to attend, so it didn't meet quorum.
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Public Safety
- Five people survive plane crash near Iliamna on Saturday; one in serious condition, troopers say
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Education
- Dillingham School Board selects Amy Brower as next school superintendent
- Three Alaska educators are finalists to be Dillingham's next school superintendent
- How this Dillingham teenager turned an ancient epic poem into a rap
- Dillingham City School District awarded $3.4 million literacy grant to boost reading skills
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