Old Harbor News

These days, June Pardue can most often be found at her home in the woods in Chickaloon, weaving hot water-softened beach grass strand by strand into a complicated pattern while she listens to Russian language tapes or the evening news.

McGrath resident Natalie Baumgartner says curiosity drove her to pick up a copy of the former Republican vice presidential candidate's book, Going Rogue , at an Anchorage Costco.

Huge crowds are expected when Sarah Palin kicks off her national book tour in Michigan.

Three communities in the Kodiak Island area will receive federal money for emergency sirens.

For more than a hundred years, over 70 Alutiiq ceremonial masks were housed in a museum in France, honored as art yet completely cut off from their original cultural context.

The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium and the Sitka Local Foods Network will host Northwest garden guru and radio/TV personality Ciscoe Morris for his presentation on "Working With Nature For An Oh-la-la Garden." The presentation takes place from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday at the Mount Edgecumbe High School campus, 1330 Seward Drive.

Kodiak Island was hit by a swarm of earthquakes, one with a magnitude of 5.9. Richard Buckmaster, a geophysicist at the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo., says the southeast region of the island was hit yesterday by 20 earthquakes with magnitudes of 2.6 or greater.

The quakes are centered southeast of Old Harbor, but there have been no reports that they've been felt.