The senior citizen population in the Matanuska Susitna Borough is escalating, while affordable housing for older people is getting scarce. In the second of a series on senior issues in the Mat-Su, KSKA reporter Ellen Lockyer takes a look at what’s being done to meet the needs of Alaska’s aging baby boomers, and what challenges lie ahead.
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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
elockyer (at) alaskapublic (dot) org | 907.550.8446 | About Ellen
