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The Alaska SeaLife Center announced its exhibition of the 2011-2012 Coastal America Ocean Arts Contest. The show is on display at the center through Feb. 27.

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The song began with drumbeats, followed by a powerful call from the dance group leader. As the steady tempo of the drumbeats increased in volume, a chorus of women's voices began to sing, joined by the baritone of the men's voices.

TENAKEE SPRINGS - In order to truly appreciate ferries, you've got to live in a small village on an island without cars. Looking at a map of where I once lived in Puget Sound, the geography doesn't seem that much different from our part of Alaska. Like here, it's water country, a country of islands. Like here, they have ferries, but their relationship to their ferries is far different from ours.

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This was a big year for Southeast Alaska. As we have done for the past 31 years, the Capital City Weekly's staff and correspondents have worked endlessly to bring you news coverage from every corner of the panhandle.

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JUNEAU - The next round of Roughhouse Boxing will feature fighters from Kake, Hoonah, Juneau and beyond. The event will be held at 9 p.m. on Dec. 9 at Marlintini's Lounge. Audience members under 21 will be admitted with a parent or legal guardian.

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HOONAH - The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) recently hired Cal K. Curt, FNP, to join its medical staff at the Hoonah Health Center as a family nurse practitioner.

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SITKA - The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) Behavioral Health Division recently received a three-year accreditation by CARF International, an international accrediting organization.

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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.

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GUSTAVUS - From the calm shores of Bartlett Cove at the entrance to Glacier Bay National Park, you can often hear the spouts of nearby humpback whales. For decades, researchers have been cataloguing and studying humpbacks in these waters, using photographs of tail flukes to identify individual whales.

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JUNEAU - The Huna Heritage Foundation has awarded 35 Huna Totem shareholders and descendants, including eight students from Juneau and seven from Hoonah, with $35,000 in higher education scholarships this month.

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