Greg Kim
News ReporterGreg Kim was a news reporter for KYUK from 2019-2022.
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According to a state trooper affidavit, a Kotlik resident strangled his girlfriend to death after stabbing and killing her dog.
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“I had no idea that by 2039 to 2059 it would go that far,” said Leo Mahaney, who leads Nunam Iqua's environmental department. “Moving houses and all that water line infrastructure. I know it's not going to be cheap.”
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“Oh man, I’m so excited,” said Bethel Regional High School senior Ava Lieb, co-captain of the Lady Warriors. “Bethel girls haven't been in the state championships since 2018. Since I was in eighth grade, which is pretty exciting because our goal was to make it to the state tournament."
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Before the regional championship game, boys head coach Eric Jung is planning to tell his team, “Hey, enjoy the moment. You battled hard to get here. Make sure you enjoy it because you only get a couple of these in your lifetime.”
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The city administrator said that the community’s plows finally made it to the beach, and city workers are in the process of filling sandbags and transporting them to the sewer lagoon. That should at least stop the sewage spill from getting bigger.
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The remote maintenance worker in Hooper Bay said extreme cold temperatures in February caused a crack in the sewer lagoon berm, or land wall, that surrounds and contains the lagoon.
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Hooper Bay's city administrator said that the plan with the spill is to leave it to mother nature.
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“It was definitely not created with the expectation that it would fill the billions of dollars of gaps in funding that's needed in Alaska from federal and state entities,” said ANTHC's Jen Harrington. “Our goal here was to try and create something that allowed people to get support very quickly.”
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As of Mar. 1, Hooper Bay has not been able to close the breach in its sewer lagoon wall. Any waste that residents flush down their toilets continues to flow out of the lagoon.
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“North of the village sits a slough where we usually fish. We go and gather greens from north of the village back there,” said Hooper Bay mayor Sandra Hill. “I’m worried about food security for our village.”