Education

The Alaska Association of Secondary Principals has named Robin Jones of Chief Ivan Blunka School in New Stuyahok the Region VII principal of the year.

Students in the Lake and Peninsula School District have less time to complete the same number of requirements this year. To meet the challenge, they are working on projects that fulfill a variety of school standards. One Port Heiden seventh grader will get credit for writing, science, art and culture for making a cribbage board out of a caribou antler.

Noah Ream joined the Meshik School staff in Port Heiden this month. His position was added because the school enrolled eight more students this fall.

It's the fifth year the Bristol Bay Borough School District has benefited from Fall Fish and Feast, a fundraising event hosted by Bear Trail Lodge. The lodge estimated that the event this Saturday raised between $55,000 and $60,000.

Annual wine and dine gathering raises tens of thousands of dollars to support Bristol Bay School activities through the rest of the year.

The Dillingham City School District buses no longer operate outside city limits, but students who used to ride the bus from past that point are finding other ways to get into town.

Three of the five members of Dillingham’s school board are not running for re-election in October. Two say that it is because of the large time commitment serving on the board requires.

Unglu is Igiugig's Yup'ik immersion pre-kindergarten program where toddlers are learning their native language through song, dance and play.

Jalen Konukpeok, 18, learns language as a way of connecting with the Russian Orthodox church and with people around him.