Ketchikan community rallies to support Skan family after fire consumes their Peterson Street home
Posted by Molly Lubbers | Jul 19, 2021
A Peterson Street home was engulfed with smoke Sunday afternoon. A firefighter stands on the steps, waiting to enter the house. (Courtesy of Ketchikan Fire Department).
Two Ketchikan residents were left devastated after a house fire Sunday afternoon. No humans were injured, but two pets were lost, and the home is uninhabitable.
Sunday afternoon, Sonya Skan said she woke up from a nap to the smell of smoke. She ran out of her house, grabbing two of her pets and not much else. When she tried to go back for her other dog and cat, she said she couldn’t get back in the home was already full of smoke.
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Posted by Eric Stone | Dec 22, 2020
Totem poles stand outside Ketchikan Indian Community’s clinic and office building at 2960 Tongass Avenue. (KRBD file photo)
Tribal leaders in Ketchikan say they have “no confidence” in the school district’s top administrator. Ketchikan’s superintendent of schools is facing allegations she’s mistreated Alaska Native faculty.
A letter to Ketchikan’s school board from all but one elected member of the Ketchikan Indian Community Tribal Council stops short of calling for Ketchikan Superintendent Beth Lougee to be fired.
But the letter’s message is clear: “trust has been severed” between her and Ketchikan’s Alaska Native community. The tribal council says it’s aware of “numerous instances” of disrespect towards Alaska Native staff and parents and wants things to change.