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Ketchikan: Ketchikan Community Risk Level Raised to HIGH; Ketchikan High School Closed Through Friday, May 7th - The Ketchikan Emergency Operations Center and Ketchikan School District have seen an increase in COVID-19 cases in the past couple of weeks, including an increase in community spread cases. There are 12 new cases reported in Ketchikan today, and 9 cases reported on Monday. Seven of those cases were determined to be close contacts to a known positive case, three were attributed to community spread, three were determined to be related to recent travel, and eight of the cases remain under investigation. In the past 10 days, there have been more than 10 positive cases attributed to staff or students of the Ketchikan High School.
At a Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce meeting in the early 1970s, Len Laurance said that eventually Ketchikan would host more than one million cruise ship passengers each season.
The proclamation, made at a time when less than 70,000 cruise passengers visited the First City, was met with guffaws by the audience.
But Laurance, who died at 88 on April 8, was right. In both 2018 and 2019, Ketchikan had more than one million cruise visitors and would likely have had more than 1.3 million in 2020 if not for the COVID 19 pandemic that shut down the entire Alaskan cruising industry.
In an interview in 2014, Laurance said his projections were simply based on a 10 percent increase every year.
New hearing assistance technology comes to the Paramount Theatre
Can help audience members with and without hearing aids.
Posted: Apr 27, 2021 4:11 PM
Posted By: Mike Bunge
AUSTIN, Minn. – A new system will help the hard of hearing enjoy performances at the Paramount Theatre.
Thanks to new technology provided by a private donor, every live show at the Paramount will now have devices for people who wear a Bluetooth-enabled hearing aid and those who do not wear a hearing aid. The devices will help overcome background noise, reverberation and distance from the sound source.
“These devices are a game changer for patrons with hearing loss. We know that patrons struggle to hear the details, for example the lyrics to a song, in our theatre,” says Laura Helle, Austin Area Arts Executive Director. “We are proud to offer the same technology being used in other theatres across the country and the world to help everyone enjoy the show.”
Edited By MARY KAUFFMAN - Today, Senator Bill Wielechowski (D-Anchorage) introduced Senate Joint Resolution 12, joining others in urging the United States Congress to remove the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset clauses from the United States Social Security Act.
Both provisions affect the calculation of the Social Security benefits for individuals who also receive a state pension or one from a political subdivision. The Windfall Elimination Provision applies to direct public employees while the Government Pension Offset reduces benefits of spouses and survivors who are public employees – both of which cut benefits up to hundreds of dollars per month.