Author: Leila Kheiry

After news of Friday’s school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, Ketchikan Schools Superintendent Robert Boyle talked with local police, who agreed to spend extra time keeping an eye on schools.

The Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly met in regular session Monday night, and breezed through the agenda in about an hour. The longest discussion of the short Assembly meeting focused on a proposed Hopkins Alley revitalization project.

A section of Front Street in downtown Ketchikan is closed for up to three weeks because of the city’s ongoing Berth 2 reconstruction project.

Longtime community health aide and practitioner Anna Frisby recently earned her physician assistant credential and soon will return to Alma Cook Medical Center in Hydaburg to work as a mid-level provider.