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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.

Dear weekly, sporadic, occasional and first-time readers of the Capital City Weekly: I'm writing to introduce myself as a recent addition to the editorial staff at the CCW. I plan on spicing things up a bit, and I'm coming after you.

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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.

Five Southeast communities will be hosts to the Indigo Trio, a group of musicians made up of students from the Yale School of Music. The group's cellist, Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, is originally from Sitka. Other members are Richard Kahn on piano and Matthew Griffith on clarinet.

I was confronted by a surprising fact a few months ago while driving on the Glen Highway. My road trip companion, a friend from Connecticut, remarked that Alaska is probably the last state in America with both towns and vast swaths of land ceded to roadlessness. I couldn't believe it. I'm a proud and eager booster of Alaskan exceptionalism, but I was surely convinced that bastions of roadlessness must have persisted in the far-removed corners of the other 49 states.

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From Ketchikan to Prudhoe Bay to Shemya Island, every year Alaskans bundle up and gather together to celebrate the holiday season by braving the elements for the Audubon Christmas Bird Count.

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SKAGWAY - Two visual artists, one Canadian and one American, will be selected to participate in an international creative journey within the Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park and the Chilkoot Trail National Historic Site in British Columbia.

SKAGWAY - Skagway is on the Environmental Protection Agency's watch list for being at risk of violating the Clean Water Act.

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On the first Friday of each month, Juneau galleries, museums and shops open their doors for show and exhibit openings, artist meet-and-greets and more. Following is information about events available as of press time. All events and openings listed are on Friday, Dec. 2 unless otherwise noted.

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