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COUNCIL approves utility rate raises


The Ketchikan City Council, in its regular meeting Thursday, passed a 1.5% raise in electric utility rates and a 5% raise in water utility rates.
The electric raise was approved by a 4-3 vote, with council members Riley Gass, Abby Bradberry and Sam Bergeron voting against the raise.
Council Member Janalaee Gage said that the raises were inevitable and council members would only be pushing it “down the hill” every year if it wasn’t approved.
The 5% raise in water rates was passed 5-2, with Bergeron and Bradberry voting against the motion.
The council also unanimously approved a resolution to send a letter to the Alaska Congressional Delegation and Gov. Mike Dunleavy to ask them to urge the federal government to issue a temporary waiver to the federal Passenger Vessel Services Act, which could allow the Alaska cruise industry to resume operations in 2021. ....

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DESPITE COVID-19, Ketchikan carries on


In a normal year, the big topic of conversation would have been the heavy summer rainfall or the December deluge that threatened to cause Ketchikan Lakes Dam to breach. Or it might have been the month-long visit of Phoenix the humpback whale who bubble fed just about every day for four weeks in November at the downtown Ketchikan docks.
But in Ketchikan, in 2020, the biggest news was the same as it was all over the world, the COVID-19 Pandemic and how it changed nearly every facet of our lives over the last nine months of the year.
COVID-19 arrived in March in the First City, and, by the end of the year, more than 250 residents and travelers had tested positive. One local woman, Julie Wasuli of Saxman, died from COVID-19 in December at a hospital in Bellingham, Washington. ....

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