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Bethel Regional High School wrestlers traveled to Anchorage to compete in the Grace Grizzly Shakedown tournament at the Grace Christian School on Dec. 1 and 2.
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The SouthWest Alaska Arts Group has enough money to hold the full 2024 Cama-i Dance Festival after the Bethel City Council approved funding to fill a hole in its community grant program.
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The measure would have allocated funding to those who applied for a local Community Action Grant but were unable to receive any money because there is no money. In fact there’s almost a $98,000 deficit.
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According to a press release, residents affected by the flooding between May 12 and June 3 have until Dec. 22 to apply for individual federal assistance. The deadline applies to survivors living in the Copper River, Kuspuk, Lower Kuskokwim, Lower Yukon, and Yukon Flats Regional Educational Attendance Areas.
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Bank workers at two branches of the multinational bank Wells Fargo, one in the lower 48’s southwest and one in Southwest Alaska, filed a petition to hold the bank’s first-ever union elections on Monday, Nov. 20.
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The tournament is named after Lancer Smith, who coached at Palmer and Colony high schools from 1973 to 2000 and promoted the sport throughout Alaska before his death in 2002.
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A Mountain Village man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for killing a man while burglarizing his home.
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The Alaska National Guard’s annual community outreach program, Operation Santa Claus, was delayed in rural Southwestern Alaska, but it wasn’t because of the rainy and icy weather. KYUK’s Francisco Martínezcuello was covering the event when the Black Hawk helicopter assigned to fly Santa and Mrs. Claus had to make room for additional passengers.
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Alaska State Troopers are accusing two people of smuggling drugs into the Yukon Kuskokwim Correctional Center. They say that two people that are currently in jail organized it.
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Bethel Regional High School hosted its annual wrestling invitational tournament during Veterans Day weekend. Both boys and girls teams from Anchorage, Fairbanks, and across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta competed.