Governor Knowles Wednesday morning in Sitka addresses the State Chamber of Commerce's annual convention. Governor Focuses on Timber Jobs, Education Governor Demands Response to Ketchikan Pulp Proposal. This proposal deserves careful consideration, but a delay of more than a week is unwarranted, unfair and unacceptable. The people of Ketchikan want and need to move forward. Knowles, his chief of staff, and Washington, D.C. staff have made numerous attempts during the past week to extract a response from the national administration.
North Pole Gets First Senior Housing.
The governor Monday afternoon announces a unique partnership among state agencies that will permit the development of the Interior's first senior citizen housing complex outside of Fairbanks - conversion of an aging North Pole apartment complex into 24, fully equipped and handicapped accessible senior housing units. The Parkwood Apartments in downtown North Pole, currently owned by the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, will be transferred to the Alaska Housing Finance Corp. and sold to a local non-profit, the North Pole Housing Association. They will then be converted into senior housing units. This Thursday and Friday. More than 250 parents, educators, school board members, business and government leaders are headed to Girdwood Thursday and Friday for Alaska's first-ever Education Summit.