The Lower Yukon School District is giving students from Hooper Bay to Russian Mission the opportunity to live in Anchorage and take technical and college classes through the Kusilvak Career Academy.
Saturday’s update showed Dave Bronson maintaining a lead over Forrest Dunbar in the election for Anchorage mayor, with the two headed for a runoff on May 11.
Penelope Foudeas died March 24, three days after a fall while skiing.
If approved by the Assembly, it will be the eighth such extension since the pandemic began, and would extend the proclamation through July 16.
The two will face off during a runoff election on May 11.
The results of the election will not be official until certified by the Anchorage Assembly on April 20, but both candidates are gearing up for a runoff.
The online event hosted by Anchorage Festival of Music features a modern-day recording of the original program, with historic facts and poetry readings.
West Anchorage and downtown will see the worst winds of the late-season storm, forecasters say.
Officials say a flood of last minute ballots and in-person voters set them behind in one key part of the ballot-counting process.
None of the 15 mayoral candidates are likely to gain the 45%-plus-one lead required to win the election outright, meaning a runoff is likely.
The city paid $1 million to settle with the developer and subcontractors for the project off East Tudor Road, but it retains design plans that could support a new development partnership.
The case was first identified in March in the region that includes Anchorage and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, according to a report from health officials.
“We see this as a natural extension to what our mission is in the community,” said Alaska Club CEO Robert Brewster.
There were 10 other propositions on the ballot, and in early results, all but Proposition 1 were passing. However, Anchorage election officials had received but not yet counted a large number of ballots Tuesday evening.
Just 1,636 District 4 ballots had been counted by Tuesday evening. That’s under 4% of the registered voters in the district.
School Board President Elisa Vakalis and member Alisha Hilde were behind in their races, although a large number of ballots remained uncounted when initial results were posted Tuesday evening.
Just over 10,600 ballots have been counted as of Tuesday night, a significantly lower count compared with the number included in preliminary election results during previous mail-in elections.
Voter turnout last week had been on track to be one of the lowest since the city switched to the vote-by-mail system in 2018. But a rush of ballots over the weekend has voter numbers up, according to an election official.
Ballot envelopes must be postmarked by Tuesday, April 6 to be counted. Voters can also drop off ballots in one of 18 secure drop boxes around the city.
Belly-sliding otters may be cute, but they’re also voracious predators with sharp teeth.
