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At the high school level, putting on a musical can take anywhere from 8 to 10 weeks. At the Sitka Fine Arts Camp, it takes two. A group of high school-age students completed the ambitious rehearsal schedule at the camp’s first-ever two-week musical theater session last week. KCAW’s Ed Ronco visited rehearsals for “Bye Bye Birdie.”

Host Michael Carey moderates a discussion with the candidates running for United States Representative in the Alaska Primary Election on August 28, 2012. Tune in on KSKA FM 91.1 or Alaska Public Television. Times listed below are approximate. 7:00 PM Democrats Debra Chesnut Fairbanks Sharon M. Cissna Anchorage Matt Moore Anchorage Doug Urquidi Eagle River Frank J. Vondersaar Homer 8:00 PM Republicans John R. Cox Anchor Point Terre L. Gales Eagle River Don Young Ft. Yukon 8:50 PM Libertarian Jim C. McDermott Fairbanks

One of the pillars of Alaska’s philanthropic community died yesterday at her home in Anchorage.

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The Parnell Administration is beginning to consider what needs to be done with the state’s tax on gas production. Currently it is coupled with the oil tax regime, but legislators were told today that it’s time to begin planning a new system to encourage gasline development for in-state use – as well as for export.

Pt. Thomson is key to gas development on the North Slope with twenty five percent of the known resources that could go to market.

A military jury has found an Army sergeant not guilty of negligent homicide in the death of an Army private based at Fort Wainwright who killed himself in Afghanistan.

Two more walrus calves are on their way to the Alaska SeaLife Center. Both were rescued near Barrow yesterday. One was found floating on an ice floe by hunters looking for bearded seal. The other one showed up on a beach in Barrow. Raphaela Stimmelmayr is a Wildlife Veterinarian with the North Slope Borough. She says a representative from the Alaska SeaLife Center was landing in Barrow to pick up the first calf when she heard about the second one.

Alaska isn’t home to nearly as many invasive plants as Lower 48 states. But they are beginning to creep in. An invasive aquatic plant is invading a waterway near North Pole. During a plant survey in 2010, specialists discovered Elodea in Chena Slough. This summer, the Fairbanks Soil and Water Conservation District is testing an eradication method.

Two former University of Alaska Fairbanks rifle team members are competing on the U.S. team at the London, Olympics. Matt Emmons is a two-time Olympian who won gold and silver at the games in 2004 and 2008. Jamie Beyerle Gray scored a 4th and 5th in 2008. Gray competed in the air rifle event Saturday, and finished 5th again, one spot behind Emmon’s wife Katerina, who shoots for the Czech Republic. Yi Siling of China won. Gray says the places in shooting are typically determined by shots just millimeters apart.

Two men from the Kuskokwim village of Kwethluk drowned in separate incidents within the past week.

The Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, Office of Native Affairs and Policy is visiting remote villages, hub communities, as well as Anchorage and Fairbanks to learn about the obstacles Alaska Natives face in accessing the Internet. The visiting officials also held a training session Friday in Anchorage.

A month after an online campaign started an effort to send Miami singer Pitbull to Kodiak, Mr. Worldwide finally touched down on the island this morning.