Anchorage experiences warmest first 100 days of year on record
The first 100 days of 2016 in Anchorage have been the warmest on record, according to the National Weather Service.Most communities in Alaska also experienced above-normal temperatures almost every day between Jan. 1 and April 9, according to Rick Thoman, climate science and services manager for the Weather Service’s Anchorage region.Cordova measured above-normal temperatures 98 days out of the first 100 of 2016, Eagles 93 and Bettles 91.“Statewide, it’s been extremely mild since Christmastime,”..>> view originalBeyond traditional lessons - Social Emotional Learning in ...
Anchorage School District officials are looking to enhance social and emotional skill building among students in conjunction with traditional subjects like math and science. Channel 2's Nikki Carvajal and MJ Thim talk to Anchorage School District Superintendent Ed Graff and Melissa Schlinger with Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning, Tuesday morning. ( KTUU - TV )>> view originalAnchorage School District to add 'Biliteracy' seal to high school ...
ANCHORAGE - High school seniors graduating from the Anchorage School District this year may be seeing something new on their diplomas. Beginning with the class of 2016, the Anchorage School District will award graduating high school seniors a 'Seal of Biliteracy' if they have attained proficiency in two or more languages by the time they graduate."It's a really exciting, exciting thing for our district," said Brandon Locke, Director of the Anchorage School District World Languages Program. "I'..>> view originalCity renews push for funding of embattled Port of Anchorage project
With legislators running out of time, officials at the Port of Anchorage are beginning to worry their efforts to secure funding to fix the crumbling infrastructure at the state’s most productive dock will be pushed aside by lawmakers. House Bill 329 is stuck in a House finance committee with no signs it will see a vote by the end of the session. It's a bill backed by Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz to put the modernization of the port to a statewide vote on the Nov. ballot, asking Alaska to ta..>> view originalSenate's capital budget buys Anchorage LIO but won't build Kivalina ...
JUNEAU — The Alaska Senate released its proposed capital budget Monday, and one of its few big projects was a line item to buy the Legislature’s Anchorage offices for $32.5 million, the price approved by a legislative committee two weeks ago.Missing from the Senate’s capital budget: a request from Gov. Bill Walker to spend $7.2 million for a new school in the Northwest Alaska village of Kivalina.The Anchorage Legislative Information Office purchase would use money outside the state’s unrestricte..>> view originalHow an Anchorage teen motorcyclist finished Columbia University at ...
Zoe Danner will graduate from Columbia University in New York City this spring at 18. With some regret.She rode her motorcycle to New York at age 16 after having finished her high school requirements in Anchorage a year earlier. Then she finished her Ivy League education in three years instead of four.“Now, looking back, I’m kind of sorry,” Zoe said. Going to college so young was hard. “But that being said, I’m not sure there were that many options for me.”Zoe was born with amazing brains and am..>> view originalImmersing schoolchildren in nature at Anchorage parklands
Nunaka Valley Elementary teacher Jessica Nesset is doing her best to persuade a wiggly class of 18 first-graders to stand with their designated partner so the day’s math lesson can proceed.“Wagon-pullers, are you ready?” she asks a boy-girl duo at the back of the line. “Let’s go to the park.”That’s right, the park. Russian Jack Springs Park, to be exact.Nesset leads her charges across the school’s quiet neighborhood and stops at the entrance to a pedestrian tunnel under Boniface Parkway.“Remembe..>> view originalAchoo! Anchorage is extra dusty this spring, experts say
Dry weather and an early break up has turned the Anchorage Bowl into a dust bowl this spring. According to the city's Environmental Health Division the amount of particulates floating through Anchorage's air right now have hit one of the highest levels in the past five years.The dust is from all the gravel spread on city streets for better traction during winter. Very small particles made up of things like dirt and dried leaves comprise, said Air Quality Specialist Anne Schlapia.While the dust..>> view original3 years after child's death, Anchorage woman thanks family for ...
'I owe you my life' Family meets recipient of child's organs Malinda Proud knew six months into her pregnancy that the baby she was carrying had a rare condition called hydranencephaly. It basically meant that most of the baby’s brain would be missing.Medical professionals urged Proud, then a teenager, to end the pregnancy. She refused. After her son was born, social workers at Alaska Native Medical Center encouraged her to place the baby, named AJ, for adoption.Proud refused. “..>> view originalUPDATE: Man who shot dog in its own yard said animal was ...
UPDATE: The man who shot and killed a Labrador in its own yard Thursday later told police the animal had approached him and his small child in an aggressive manner, according to APD.Anchorage Police offered new details today on the Campbell Lake shooting, which has prompted a makeshift memorial for the chocolate lab and a neighborhood meeting, according to the dog's owner.Police say the shooting was reported on the 3500 block of North Point Drive where a man had parked his pickup on a street "r..>> view original
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
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