Now its time for the segment we call 300 villages. This week, we’re visiting Chatanika, an old gold mining area about 30 miles north of Fairbanks on the Steese Highway, and Glennallen, a community at the crossroads of the Glenn and Richardson Highways.
That was Shirley Franklin, a lodge owner in Chatanika. and Kathy Stratton, a library aide in Glennallen.
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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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