Unalaska declared October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month; six more communities are being added to telecommunications company GCI’s Aleutian Fiber Project, including Cold Bay and False Pass; and Congresswoman Mary Peltola, the nation’s first Alaska Native elected to Congress, will serve as the keynote speaker at the Alaska Federation of Natives conference.
Work has started to lay 800 miles of subsea cable that project engineers say will bring high speed internet to Unalaska and Akutan by the end of the year.