CLEANING UP – Jordan Tanguay, Sitka National Historical Park biologist, right, uses a bilge pump to remove oily water from a stream flowing into Indian River this morning, as Jared Hazel, park maintenance worker, carries out buckets. Tanguay discovered the fuel leak this morning as she walked through the park. She spent the morning helping do mitigation work. The leaked fuel was traced to a 500-gallon tank on private land. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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Latest Ballot Count Gives JKT 28-Vote Lead
Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins smiles as he stands next to white board showing him in the lead.
Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins took a 28-vote lead over Bill Thomas today with the count of 86 absentee ballots cast for state representative in House District 34.
Alaska Division of Elections Director Gail Fenumiai said another 26 special absentee ballots will be counted on Wednesday, along with any overseas ballots that arrive between now and then.
On Friday Kreiss-Tomkins, a Democrat from Sitka, was in a tie with Thomas, a Republican from Haines, after two questioned ballots from Port Alexander were counted.
Fenumiai said today’s count of the 86 absentee ballots gave Kreiss-Tomkins 56 votes to 28 for Thomas. The latest count was 4,110 (50.08 percent) for Kreiss-Tomkins and 4,082 (49.74 percent) for Thomas.
Kreiss-Tomkins said today that he believes the Wednesday count will not change the outcome.
“We feel very good about the margin and optimistic that the votes on Wednesday, which include both of my parents’ votes, will break similarly as the votes did today,” he said.
Kreiss-Tomkins held a 43-vote lead over Thomas in the count of ballots after the polls closed on Nov. 6. After the first count of absentee ballots on Nov. 13 Thomas led by two votes, and the race pulled dead even on Friday.
Under state law, a candidate gets a free recount if the margin is within 20 votes, or one half of a percent of the votes cast.
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December 2004
Photo caption: David Voluck reads a blessing while lighting a menorah during a community gathering observing the eight-day Chanukah festival. Honored speakers included Woody Widmark, STA president, and Assembly member Al Duncan.
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December 1974
From On the Go: More college students home for the holidays – Bill and Isabella Brady have a houseful. Ralph is here from the Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute, along with his fiancee Grace Gillian; Louise is here from the University of New Mexico, and Jennifer, who’s working with IEA in Anchorage is home with her fiance Lance Ware.
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