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Jenna Buchanan: “My heart is always with Galena”
By SHELBY KILLINGSWORTH, staff writer Jenna Buchanan, the former basketball player for the Galena Lady Hawks and the University of Alaska Anchorage Seawolves, is now working at a elementary school…
Good news about fire drills
By KIANA MELOVIDOV, staff writer During last fire drill at Sidney C. Huntington campus the building was evacuated in a minute and thirty seconds. “We will continue to have fire…
Hockey rink is the game spot for Galena skaters
By ABRAHAM BJORKLUND, staff writer Martin Hornfischer moved to Galena in 2010, and started to play hockey on the Yukon for the first three years, because they lived right there…
New superintendent’s first semester: “No day is the same”
By SHELBY KILLINGSWORTH, staff writer Jim Merriner, the new superintendent of the Galena City School District, learned after his first semester of being superintendent is that to stay on top…
Things are cookin’ with the SHS lunch ladies
By JANELL ECHUCK and SARAH THOMPSON, staff writers At the Sidney C. Huntington School, the cooks at the cafeteria are pretty chill people when they running a huge kitchen. We…
Elementary teacher just has to walk down hall for new job
By KIANA MELOVIDOV and SARAH THOMPSON, staff writers The new Sidney C. Huntington elementary teacher is Dawn Pomrening Ms. Pomrening is currently the academic support, math fundamentals, and arts &…
Knowledge hatches in Mrs. Ruchti’s room
By AIDEN DIEHL, staff writer One of our local teachers is raising chicks in the classroom. Karen Ruchti, special education teacher at the SHS campus, ordered two Icelandic chicks from…
Swim team has wins at Fairbanks meet
By JADA ARNOLD, staff writer Three students came in second, and three students came in third, at the 2018 Northern Area Swim Championships at Hamme Pool in Fairbanks on April…
Active shooter drill planned for this month
By LONDON KEPLINGER, staff writer Galena Interior Learning Academy will be having an active shooter drill in April, following the schools’ crisis plan being updated. The school will be having…
Academic Pentathlon team heads to Seattle
By AARON SUSOOK, staff writer Several junior high students in the rural community of Galena, Alaska, made nationals in the Academic Pentathlon. The Academic Pentathlon a program that is open…