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On the take: Salmonid education begins with egg harvest
Editor's note: This is the first part of a multi-piece series following Dave Knudsen's class at Kaleidoscope School of Arts Science in Kenai as they study different aspects of the salmon lifecycle through the school year.
Carey trims pay for top aides
Hoping to quell a swell of negative public opinion, Borough Mayor Dave Carey this week cut the salaries of two of his administration's highest paid appointees.
Icy roads mean it's time to prepare for winter driving
Icy roads earlier this week left many drivers in ditches along the side of the road, and with cooler temperatures predicted again this weekend, motorists should take precautions for this and future winter driving conditions.
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'Where the Wild Things Are' At the opening credits rolled on this week's avant garde kid-lit adaptation, "Where the Wild Things Are," I could feel a palpable excitement in the audience. The theatre was packed with parents and kids of all ages, from middle school on down to tiny babies. The logos for Warner Brothers and the other participating studios appear on screen covered in playful scrawls and doodles, and the title lettering comes up in a friendly, wavering kid-script. This looks for all the world to be a cute, if well-made movie for children, on that celebrates the innate wildness and anarchy in every young heart, but tempers it with the warm, safe feeling of security embodied in a family with boundaries. That is, after all, what the book by Maurice Sendak seems to be about. More
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