Unalaska, AK – The Museum of the Aleutians was one of 23 institutions to receive an Alaska State museum grant. The grant amounted to $5,000, and it's meant to help the Museum of the Aleutians buy new equipment.

Executive Director Zoya Johnson says that the museum will spend the grant money on a new laminating machine, which should help bring down printing costs.

"This kind of in-house printing ability will allow us to save tends of thousands of dollars," says Johnson. "Every time we work on our exhibits, it costs us about $5,000 to send our materials to Anchorage and have them sent back. Being able to do this right here in Unalaska spares us the worry whether the materials will be sent back and in time for our upcoming exhibit."

Unalaska, AK – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is looking into the bald eagle problem in Unalaska. The federal agency is in charge of managing the species and has received several reports of eagles attacking pedestrians near the Dutch Harbor post office, the clinic, and on the Captains Bay Road between Westward and the bridge. A Fish & Wildlife biologist plans on coming to town to investigate the nests this week. Fish & Wildlife spokesperson Bruce Woods says that landowners can remove nests if they apply for special permits.

Unalaska, AK – Annie Ngo and Anne Hillman decided to survey some of the community about the upcoming holiday. They found out that some things about Independence Day are universal -- love of hot dogs and hamburgers, for example. But everyone had very different memories about what made the holiday great.

Unalaska, AK – Kalee Thompson is the author of Deadliest Sea, a book that just came out about the Alaska Ranger rescue. She writes for a number of publications including Popular Science and Popular Mechanics. She talks with KUCB about the her book, the Coast Guard rescue, and how to keep tragedies like that from happening again.

Unalaska, AK – Last night, City Council held a special meeting to discuss the removal of a dozen trailers, a road construction project to the new small boat harbor, and the hiring of a new deputy city clerk. Five council members were present, and Catherine McGlashan served as mayor pro tempore.

After receiving a second reading, an ordinance regarding the removal of the twelve trailers on Loop Road passed unanimously. Offshore Systems, Inc. (OSI) will take ownership of the trailers.

Unalaska, AK – Continued improvements to salmon escapement numbers caused Fish and Game to
open Reese Bay waters to subsistence fishing.

according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, about 7,500 sockeye salmon passed through the weir located at McLees Lake -- also known as Wislow -- between June 28 and 29. Since June 8, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has enforced restrictions on salmon fishing in the area in an effort to meet the escapement goal.

Unalaska, AK – Last night, a 30-year-old man broke into the Ounalashka Corporation on Salmon Way and stole a computer monitor. Scott Michael Boylan of Washington was arrested last night and charged with two felonies and two misdemeanors.

At around 1:30am, police spotted Boylan yelling at cars while carrying a pizza, and they gave him a warning. Forty-five minutes later, police dispatch received a report from a UniSea security that an alarm had gone off in the OC building. When police arrived, they found a broken window with bloody fingerprints and two slices of pizza. A vehicle in the OC parking lot had also been broken into, and bandanas that had been stored in the vehicle were strewn around the lot.

Unalaska, AK – Highland Light Seafoods, a Seattle-based seafood company, has been fined $135,000 by the Environmental Protection Agency for violating the Clean Water Act in Alaska waters.

An EPA inspection in 2008 revealed that the company's catcher-processor the Westward Wind had been in violation of environmental standards for 5 years. The Westward Wind did not comply with its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit, and discarded more seafood waste than it was permitted to by law.

Unalaska, AK – The city of Unalaska released a water quality report this month that provides detail on potential contaminants. The water was deemed safe in most categories. None of the 20 homes tested were affected by lead or copper contamination. The number of trihalomethanes and Halo acetic acids, which can cause cancer, were also well below safe levels.

"We've got unusually clean water" says Clint Huling, the Water Division Supervisor. "About the only thing we ever have any problem with is that storms can occasionally cause a mudslide which leads to dirt in the water, causing some turbidity."