Alaska Visionary Dies at 72

Bill Noll,  an Alaska entrepreneur and former Mayor of Seward, passed away suddenly on Monday in Anchorage.  Noll was 72.

Noll  was instrumental in founding the Seward Sea Life Center, and in establishing a coal export facility there.

Noll  also worked to promote a hydroelectric project  to supply railbelt energy needs.  He was considered a visionary, and served as a deputy commissioner of economics under Governor Wally Hickel and as Commissioner of  Commerce under Governor Frank Murkowski.  Family friend Richard Wilson says Noll mentored youth as well.

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APTI Reporter-Producer Ellen Lockyer started her radio career in the late 1980s, after a stint at bush Alaska weekly newspapers, the Copper Valley Views and the Cordova Times. When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Valdez Public Radio station KCHU needed a reporter, and Ellen picked up the microphone.
Since then, she has literally traveled the length of the state, from Attu to Eagle and from Barrow to Juneau, covering Alaska stories on the ground for the AK show, Alaska News Nightly, the Alaska Morning News and for Anchorage public radio station, KSKA
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