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🌱 How Ketchikan’s Ward Lake course tested Southeast’s fastest high school runners
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In today's newsletter:
- How Ketchikan's Ward Lake course tested Southeast's fastest high school runners
Also on today's calendar: OPENING at the Main Street Gallery.
Today's riddle: What has a tail, but no body? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Tuesday: Decreasing clouds, with a high of 63 and low of 51 degrees.
- Wednesday: Considerable cloudiness, temps: high: 61, low: 52.
- Thursday: Cloudy with a shower or two, with a high of 61 and low of 54 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• JDHS XC boys win at Ketchikan, girls second (juneauindependent.com) — Ketchikan hosted the Kayhi Invitational cross-country meet at Ward Lake, where Juneau-Douglas boys won the team title and the girls placed second while Ketchikan's own runners turned in strong individual finishes. The narrow, challenging course tested athletes from across Southeast, and coaches highlighted big personal-record improvements as teams now look ahead to races in Petersburg and at Eagle Beach. 
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🗓 Upcoming Events in Ketchikan
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- Live Music @ the New York Cafe →
New York Cafe, 211 Stedman St, Ketchikan
7:00 pm
Friday September 18
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Other local events
- Assembly - Regular →
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5:30 pm - OPENING at the Main Street Gallery →
Main Street Gallery, 330 Main St, Ketchikan
5:00 pm
Monday September 21
Friday October 2
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🗞 Nearby News
Wrangell
- Holland America Line Opens 2028 Alaska Season (nerdnewssocial.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
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