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Typically, four months is the recommended time period to train for a marathon. The clock starts today if that marathon is the 13th Annual Prince of Wales Island International Marathon, which is scheduled to occur on Saturday, May 26.

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Editor's note: This is the second installment in a two-part series recounting the events of a 1907 border survey team. Part one of the series appeared in last week's Capital City Weekly.

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On June 5, 1907, a United States-Canada boundary survey team arrived at the mouth of the Bradfield River near Wrangell. The group's leaders were David W. Eaton, chief U.S. surveyor, and J. D. Craig, his Canadian counterpart. J. M. Bates was Eaton's assistant.

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SITKA - The Sitka Global Warming Group and Sustainable Sitka (SGWG/SS) are currently accepting nominations for their 2012 Sitka Green Business Award program, aimed at promoting local businesses who incorporate green business practices into their daily operations.

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JUNEAU - Tlingit Haida Regional Housing Authority has received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture - Rural Development. Funds will be designated for a project designed to reduced high energy costs by an estimated 30 to 50 percent for seniors and other low-income families living in THRHA housing in Angoon, Hoonah and Kake.

THORNE BAY - The Tongass National Forest, Thorne Bay and Craig District Rangers are reminding the public that the roads system on Prince of Wales Island is changing.

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State officials say there is "no reason to panic" and that Alaska salmon are "relatively safe" from a deadly fish virus that has appeared for the first time in Pacific waters.

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