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Construction outside my window

Well folks - here is the view from my window on Friday, Feb 8. The city of KTN did a survey of the dock at the water front and found that a lot o

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Added by Laurie B on February 8, 2008 at 1:31pm — 1 Comment

Wonderful Surpise

A little over a week ago, the residents of KTN were given a wonderful gift. It was a little past 5pm on Saturday night and my husband & I were driving home from doing some shopping. As we came around the corner my husband said "I just saw fireworks above Deer Mountain!". Deer Mt is the beautiful peak that to

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Added by Laurie B on February 1, 2008 at 3:26pm — No Comments

Winter social season

Well we have had a wonderful batch of weather the last week or so. We have had a mix of gorgeous sunny days with 25 – 30 degree weather then a day or two of slushy snow. The photo shows you a nice sunny morning. This was taken about

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Added by Laurie B on January 21, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments

New year - new blog

The view from my window - Ketchikan, Alaska today.
Ketchikan is a town whose number one industry is tourism. In the summer season (mid-April thru early October) the place is bustling with locals and "summer folks" showing almost 900,000 visitors what the town has to offer. They say that in Ketchikan 1 in 7 jobs is direct