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Credit Katie Basile / KYUK The Lower Kuskokwim School District is preparing for the possibility that one of its schools could be partially underwater within a year. It doesn’t expect to receive the money to build a new school and demolish the existing one before that occurs, so the school district is coming up with alternative solutions to keep students in classrooms. In the Napakiak school, classrooms nearest to the river sit empty. The furniture and materials have been moved to temporary classrooms set up in a teacher housing unit and the old preschool. Lower Kuskokwim School District Superintendent Kimberly Hankins said that the district is preparing for the possibility that students in Napakiak won’t have a real school building this year. ....
Credit Katie Basile / KYUK Under new federal guidelines, widespread masking should return to the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. The changes are intended to suppress the spread of the highly contagious delta variant. On July 27, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new guidance regarding masks. It said that people, regardless of vaccination status, living in areas with substantial or high transmission of COVID-19 should return to wearing masks indoors in public places, including in schools. The Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta currently has high transmission of COVID-19, according to the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation. High transmission is defined as more than 100 cases per 100,000 people in the last seven days and a test positivity rate of 10% or higher. YKHC said that it is reviewing the new CDC recommendations and expects to release its own updated guidance soon. ....
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Listen • 4:03 High schoolers Ethan Lincoln, Kaylee King and Jamin Crow s podcast about their experiences subsistence hunting is a finalist in the NPR Student Podcast Challenge. The students are pictured here at the KYUK radio transmitter site in Bethel, Alaska. In the remote Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region of Alaska, many families practice subsistence hunting to get food on the table. Three students reconnected with that tradition during the pandemic. Jamin Crow waited silently for the bull moose to turn and face him. In the cold, the teen stood in an open meadow, his gun resting on a branch. He waited and waited and waited. ....