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First cruise ship arrives in still-snowy, rainy Juneau

...Woizeschke said. After that, Juneau has no scheduled cruise ship stops until Tuesday - although one large ship, the Alaska Marine Highway System ferry M/V Malaspina, is set to dock downtown Saturday for tours, the annual Blessing of the Fleet...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2013-05-05/first-cruise-ship-arrives-in-still-s
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Marine highway loses naturalists to budget cuts

...brought back, but for now, the plan is to replace them with computerized equipment and brochures on the so-called Alaska Marine Highway System, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.In light of Alaska's declining revenues and an unclear...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2013-04-28/marine-highway-loses-naturalists-to-
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Officials float idea of using Susitna in AMHS

...boat the public paid for can't be used in the Alaska Marine Highway System. "Every time I go to Ketchikan and see...the possibility of using the Susitna to expand the Alaska Marine Highway System. "If the state had it, they'd run it...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2011-09-15/officials-float-idea-of-using-susitn
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AK House passes $9.5 billion operating budget

...amendment, from Rep. Kyle Johansen. It would have moved the $2 billion to the vessel replacement fund for the Alaska marine highway system rather than to the Permanent Fund. Johansen, R-Ketchikan, said lawmakers have talked about the importance...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2012-03-15/ak-house-passes-95-billion-operating
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Tustumena's capt. retiring

...heeling slightly, as Capt. Bob Crowley turned the Alaska Marine Highway System ferry toward the Pioneer Dock before the...Capt. John Merrill. Although he works for the Alaska Marine Highway System, Crowley said his focus has always been...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2012-05-10/tustumenas-capt-retiring
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Walter Wallace Jackinsky Jr.

...best known for his career in the second half of his life.In January 1963, he went to work for the then-new Alaska Marine Highway System as an ordinary seaman. He advanced to able-bodied seaman, mate, inland master and master. After 34...

http://www.legacy.com/Link.asp?I=LS000157671469
Kenai students honored with free Kenai River Pizza

A former deck hand for the Alaska Marine Highway Ray Tessaro opened Kenai River Pizza about a year and a half ago and has started a student of the week free pizza program to encourage...

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/112410/dis_499767585.shtml
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Rural Alaskans rank port, harbor projects

...funding. This is a change from the status quo, as rural ports and harbors, save for those that are part of the Alaska Marine Highway System, are mostly not owned by the state and so are not funded through the state Department of Transportation...

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/112910/new_743053748.shtml
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Barton named to head transportation department

...MacKinnon is the acting city manager for the City and Borough of Juneau. Tom Briggs was named director of the Alaska Marine Highway System. Briggs is the current city administrator for the City of Craig and is the past chairman of the Inter-Island...

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/021803/ala_021803alapm0030001.shtml
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Albatrosses of the Gulf Of Alaska

...currently a rare but increasing visitor. Accordingly, the next time you traverse the Gulf of Alaska while on an Alaska Marine Highway System ferry from Homer to Kodiak, to Dutch Harbor, or to other ports in Southeast Alaska, keep watch for albatrosses...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/outdoors/2011-06-03/albatrosses-gulf-alaska
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