Angoon, Alaska

• Subsistence rule review not likely to bring 'major overhaul'
  

  Sweeping changes in federal subsistence hunting and fishing rules are not likely to come from an Alaska review ordered last fall by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar.

• State files opposition against Kookesh motion
  

  The state is opposing a motion to dismiss charges against Sen. Albert Kookesh and three codefendants accused of illegal subsistence fishing near Angoon in July.

• Isturis, Bowen wed
  

  Nicole Isturis, of Angoon, and Joshua Bowen, of Juneau, were married on Feb. 5, 2010, at Aldersgate United Methodist Church in Juneau.

• Consortium announces Spring 2010 mobile mammograms
  

  The SEARHC WISEWOMAN Women's Health Program has announced the Spring 2010 schedule for the mobile mammogram program.

• Man gets 81 2 years in 1980s sex abuse
  

  A 50-year-old Angoon man was sentenced last week to 81 2 years in prison for sexually abusing two children in the early 1980s.

• Wrangell, Petersburg leaders hope to meet with Angoon officials
  

  Wrangell Mayor Don McConachie and Petersburg Mayor Al Dwyer listen to the discussion over hydro-electric power development in Petersburg's city council chambers Thursday.

• Floyd Kookesh named to Central Council position
  

  Floyd Kookesh has been named Subsistence & Sustainable Development Coordinator for Central Council.

• Dismissal sought in fishing case
  

  State Sen. Albert Kookesh and the three co-defendants accused of illegal subsistence fishing have filed a court motion to have the case dismissed.

• ANB supports new subsistence groups
  

  The Alaska Native Brotherhood has raised $10,000 to form two organizations to protect Native subsistence rights.

• Toy, coat donations made by ton
  

  The Coast Guard Cutter Liberty returned to port several thousand pounds lighter last Friday after spending a week and two trips delivering donated blankets, coats and toys to Pelican, Elfin Cove, Hoonah, Kake and Angoon.

• Searhc Ems offers Ett and Emt 1 recert class in Angoon
  

  The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium Emergency Medical Services department will offer an Emergency Trauma Technician course that also includes a recertification Emergency Medical Technician 1 curriculum this February in Angoon.

• Building a Grocery Store in Alaska
  

  When people think of the areas of the world that need economic development, people do not generally think of the United States.

• FYI
  

  Recent births at the Bartlett Regional Hospital: * On Nov. 22, 2009, a daughter, Juliana Isabella Menge, weighing 7 pounds, 1 ounce, to Melissa Katheryn and Jonathan Eugene Menge, of Juneau.

• Angoon man gets 10 years for abusing girls
  

  A 25-year-old Angoon man was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting two teenage girls.

• Celebrating 101 years
  

  Walter Soboleff has done a lot in his 100-plus years on Earth, but his family's gift of a cruise through the Panama Canal is something new.

• FYI
  

  Recent births at the Bartlett Regional Hospital: * On Oct. 16, 2009, a daughter, Grace Elizabeth Roberto, weighing 8 pounds, 12 ounces, to Elizabeth Siguenza and Jeffrey Concepcion Roberto, of Juneau.

• Angoon gets preliminary hydropower project permit
  

  The city of Angoon has been granted a preliminary permit for the Ruth Lake hydropower project.

• Alaska Federation of Natives To Debate Subsistence Resolution
  

  The Alaska Federation of Natives will debate a subsistence resolution October 24, organizers said.

• It's not legal to make subsistence fishing illegal
  

  In my 20-plus years of work as a fisheries biologist with the state Fish & Game's Division of Commercial Fisheries, and then 8 years with the U.S. Forest Service, I can sympathize with Sen.

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
• Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Census Area

City Contains:

• St. John the Baptist Church

Size:

• 99.973541059 km squared

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