Capital Transit’s first electric bus from Proterra arrived in Juneau by barge today. The City and Borough of Juneau expects it’ll be ready for the public to ride in February. This will be the first public transit electric bus owned by a transit agency in the state of Alaska. In …
The City and Borough of Juneau Emergency Operations Center is reporting three new residents with COVID-19 in Juneau. Public Health is attributing one of the cases to out-of-state travel and the other two are under investigation. Yesterday, CBJ reported 10 new residents with COVID-19. One of those individuals was misidentified …
The City and Borough of Juneau Assembly made three appointments to the Bartlett Regional Hospital Board on Tuesday, December 15, at a Special Assembly Meeting. The Assembly appointed new members Rosemary Hagevig and Kenneth Solomon-Gross and reappointed Brenda Knapp. All three members will serve two-year terms beginning on January 1, …
The Bartlett Regional Hospital staff member and first known adverse allergic reaction to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S. is recovering and will remain another night in the hospital under observation. She is still encouraging her colleagues to get the vaccine. As per the CDC’s recommended method of vaccine …
Hospital-based frontline health care workers were the Alaskans to receive their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine yesterday. Vaccination clinics began in some communities on Tuesday and are continuing today. Distribution and delivery of the December allocation of 31,500 doses of Pfizer vaccine is also continuing today to the six hospitals …
The City and Borough of Juneau’s COVID-19 Individual Assistance Grant Program is closed to new applicants until further notice due to the anticipation of exhausting all available funds. Program administrator Catholic Community Service stopped accepting applications as of 4:45 p.m. December 14. The Juneau Assembly appropriated $2 million of federal CARES …
The City and Borough of Juneau Emergency Operations Center is reporting 10 new residents with COVID-19 in Juneau. Public Health is attributing six to secondary transmission, one to out-of-state travel, and the rest are under investigation. Public Health says the cluster associated with a small church in Juneau has concluded. …
The City and Borough of Juneau Emergency Operations Center is reporting 16 new individuals with COVID-19 in Juneau – 14 are residents and two are nonresidents. These cases came in December 12-14. Public Health is attributing three resident cases to community spread, three to secondary transmission, one to out-of-state travel, …
A shipment of 975 COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer Pharmaceutical is scheduled to arrive in Juneau on Tuesday, December 15. Please note, between winter weather limitations and the fact that this is an unprecedented national initiative, the vaccine arrival could be delayed. Five hundred vaccines will remain at the hospital as …
Santa Claus is coming to town! Capital City Fire/Rescue, along with Alaska State Firefighters Association Juneau, Douglas Fire Association, and Juneau Firefighters Local 4303, look forward to bringing some holiday cheer to the Juneau community with the annual Santa Rides event in the Mendenhall Valley on Friday, December 18 and …
