Affordable housing for elderly citizens remains scarce in Anchorage, now that the municipality is home to almost half the senior citizens in the state of Alaska. Anchorage’s NeighborWorks cut the ribbon on its new 20 unit senior housing complex in the city’s midtown on a blustery day in mid-September. The new Connolly Square opened to music and fanfare.
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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
