Angoon, Alaska

• Troopers investigate dead bears in Angoon
  

  Alaska Wildlife Troopers are investigating two dead bear found at the city dump at the Village of Angoon.

• Fishing citations against Kookesh, three others, dismissed
  

  SITKA, ALASKA A judge today dismissed subsistence fishing citations against state Senator Albert Kookesh.

• Memorial services set for Wednesday
  

  Law enforcement personnel from multiple agencies and states will gather in the small Tlingit village of Hoonah at 2 p.m. Wednesday for memorial services to honor slain Hoonah police officers Matthew Tokuoka and Anthony Wallace, according to village elder George Martin, 77, the father of officer Tokuoka's wife Haley.

• the Price of Power in Alaska
  

  In the rural fishing village of Angoon, Alaska, electricity rates are ten times higher than the national average.

• Superior Court denies Kookesh's motion to dismiss subsistence fishing violations
  

  State Sen. Albert Kookesh had his motion to dismiss charges for fishing in excess of his State of Alaska subsistence-use salmon permit denied by Superior Court Judge David George on Tuesday in Sitka, paving the way for a trial next month.

• Energy Self-Sufficiency Demonstration Project Starts up in Angoon,...
  

  A demonstration project is underway in Angoon focusing on energy self-sufficiency in Southeast Alaska's rural villages.

• Angoon home retrofit tests wind, solar energy
  

  A home in Angoon is getting a hundred-thousand-dollar retrofit to test energy-efficient technology.

• Angoon energy project under way
  

  Rural areas like Angoon, heavily dependent on fossil fuels, face energy prices as high as ten times the national average.

• Jack, Paul wed
  

  Tamara Little Jack of Angoon and Charles Robert Paul of Juneau were married on July 23, 2010, in Juneau.

• Energy self-sufficiency demonstration project gets underway in Angoon
  

  Residents of Juneau concerned with an increase in their monthly utility bills might find it easy to forget that in some Southeast communities, energy woes have been a constant issue for years.

City Description

Angoon (sometimes formerly spelled Angun) is a city on Admiralty Island in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 572. The name in Tlingit, Aangóon, means roughly "isthmus town." Angoon is located at 57°29′49″N 134°34′25″W / 57.49694°N 134.57361°W / 57.49694; -134.57361 (57.496891, -134.573579). Angoon is the largest permanent settlement on Admiralty Island. It is located on an isthmus at the mouth of Kootznahoo Inlet on the west side of the island. It is 97 km (60 miles) southwest of Juneau. The only other community on the island is Cube Cove, to the north. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 38.6 square miles (99.9 km²), of which, 22.5 square miles (58.3 km²) of it is land and 16.1 square miles (41.7 km²) of it (41.69%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 572 people, 184 households, and 138 families residing in the city. The population density was 25.4 people per square mile (9.8/km²). There were 221 housing units at an average density of 9.8/sq mi (3.8/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 11.36% White, 0.52% Black or African American, 81.99% Native American, 0.17% Asian,

City Contained By:

• United States of America
• Alaska
• Hoonah-Angoon Census Area

City Contains:

• St. John the Baptist Church

Size:

• 99.973541059 km squared

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