Vox Machine performs at a school assembly Friday morning. (Lauren Adams/KUCB)
This weekend, Unalaska’s being invaded -- by a cappella.
Vox Machine is an all-vocal ensemble with roots in Boston. They were invited to Unalaska to perform at Just Desserts. It's a fundraiser for the Aleutian Arts Council.
But during the rest of their short visit, the singing group has performed in classrooms and at school assemblies. They’re even planning to hit the high school prom tomorrow.
A man allegedly carrying black tar heroin was arrested as he stepped off a plane in Sand Point last month. It’s the most recent development in the town’s fight against hard drugs.
Twenty-two-year-old Gage Carlson is facing two felony charges after his April arrest: one for transporting heroin with intent to sell it, and another for possession of Oxycodone.
Carlson has been in custody in Anchorage, pending another hearing in Sand Point District Court this week.
Unalaska's emergency responders were busy Wednesday fighting an industrial fire inside a warehouse on East Point Road.
Uber Sosa is a dock worker for Pacific Stevedoring. At 5 a.m. Wednesday, he was at home -- in a dormitory right next door to the warehouse that his company leases from the Ounalashka Corporation.
"Someone woke me up," Sosa says. "It was the police, came knocking on everybody’s door, telling them to get out."
Cape Field at Fort Glenn. (Credit: Yvonne Meyer/National Park Service)
In its heyday, Fort Glenn on Umnak Island was a huge part of the military's defense during World War II. It helped protect Dutch Harbor's naval base from attacks.
But it's been almost seventy years since the airfield was used. And there are still plenty of traces of the war left behind, according to Valerie Palmer. She's a project manager with the Army Corps of Engineers.
"Through our investigation of that area, we have found that potentially there are still munitions on that site that have not exploded, and so they present an explosive hazard," Palmer says.
The TW Manila leaving port in Australia in 2013. (Courtesy: Basil Brindle/MarineTraffic.com)
The Coast Guard sent three aircraft on a long-range rescue for a mariner aboard a container ship near Unalaska Monday.
The 751-foot bulk carrier TW Manila first called for help late Sunday night. They reported a crewmember was suffering from appendicitis-like symptoms on board.
The ship was 450 miles south of Unalaska at the time. That’s too far out to sea for a helicopter to safely conduct a hoist.
Right now, a sticker on the kids' room window denotes the state license. (Annie Ropeik/KUCB)
The community center is getting rid of its state child care license, which officials say has been more of a hindrance than a help for years.
The state has granted PCR an exemption from its license as a child care center.
PCR director D. Tyrell McGirt says the exemption will give them more flexibility with two daily after-school programs: the one for first through fourth graders, and Kindercamp, for kindergarteners.
Unalaska is getting $1 million from the state to install the fourth engine at the powerhouse.
The appropriation is part of the state’s new budget. It passed during the legislative session that ended in late April.
The $1 million is less than the city had originally requested. City manager Chris Hladick says they’d hoped to get $4.5 million to cover the entire cost of installing the new engine.
