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Families lined the streets of downtown Unalaska yesterday for the annual Fourth of July parade. Kids and adults enjoyed the new floats and free candy -- and some enjoyed it so much they wished they could join in. KUCB's Lauren Rosenthal has this audio postcard.

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The Ounalashka Corporation has brought on a new interim leader.

Rick Miller, an accounting and finance consultant, started his term as acting chief executive officer on Monday. According to OC, Miller has previously worked with the corporation on projects such as upgrading its elderly accounting software.

Miller replaces Wendy Svarny-Hawthorne, who served as CEO for nearly a decade. Svarny-Hawthorne began her career with OC in 1991, and worked her way up from a receptionist position to the company’s head as part of OC’s shareholder mentoring program.

A few classic events may be missing from Unalaska’s 4th of July celebration tomorrow. The firefighters won’t put on their usual barbeque and dunk tank, and PacSteve won’t host its halibut run.

Brian Rankin, the firefighter who usually plans the barbeque, left the island for a vacation last month. New fire chief Abner Hoage would have been the next logical choice to put together the event, but he says he found out about the festivities too late.

With many kids spending as much of their summer days online as outside, there's something a little quaint about the lemonade stand that just popped up in town. But as KUCB's Lauren Rosenthal learned, this operation is far from old-fashioned.

A new cost-of-living assessment confirms what every Unalaskan knows – this place is expensive. The Alaska Department of Labor monthly publication breaks down how much it costs to buy groceries, fuel, and housing in different regions in the state. In Unalaska, the cost of living is 58 percent higher than in Anchorage. Of Alaska’s larger communities, only Kotzebue is more expensive.

On Friday, 32 Unalaska residents became the country’s newest citizens. City Hall held a special citizenship ceremony for them, presided over by federal district court judge Deborah Smith. Here, in their own words, are some of the new Americans.

Since becoming governor, Sean Parnell has used “choose respect” as a signature slogan of his administration. The phrase is tied with his effort to reduce sexual and family violence across Alaska, and it’s something the state promotes through public service announcements and awareness campaigns throughout the year. So when Parnell’s deputy visited Unalaska last week, reducing the instance of child abuse and domestic violence was a top concern for local residents.

Pollock B season is now two weeks in, but fishermen and plant managers are still trying to get a sense of how lucrative this summer will be.

Vessels made scouting trips from Unimak Pass to the Pribilof Islands during the first week, and landed about 46,417 metric tons of pollock in the process. They have 720,000 metric tons available to harvest for the season.

Paolo de Cruz works on the F/V Arctic Wind, and he has a mixed report on the season's start. He says that the competition for fish isn't intense, since the fleet isn't yet at full capacity, and that the pollock that boats are catching is good-sized. But he’s says that boats are still having to expend more effort than they would like to get that fish.

Two of the state’s top-ranked officials are scheduled to visit Unalaska tomorrow.

Lieutenant Governor Mead Treadwell and Chief Federal Magistrate Deborah Smith will be participating in a naturalization ceremony for new citizens in the morning. In the afternoon, both will be available to answer questions from the public at a reception at city hall.

Treadwell has served as lieutenant governor since 2010, following multiple terms on the U.S. Arctic Research Commission. Smith was appointed to a federal judgeship in 2007.