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The Village is a Daily News blog about life and politics in rural Alaska. Its main author is ADN reporter Kyle Hopkins. Come here for breaking news on village issues, plus interviews, videos and photos. But that's just part of the story. We want to feature your pictures, videos and stories, too. Think of The Village as your bulletin board. E-mail us anything you’d like to share with the rest of Alaska -- your letters to the editor, the photos of your latest hunt or video of your latest potlatch. (We love video.)

Kyle Hopkins

I was born in Sitka, have lived in Kake, Skagway and Fairbanks and joined the ADN in 2005 after writing for the Anchorage Press and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. I started blogging for the paper in 2006 with The Trail, our blog about the governor's race. Then came the Alaska Politics blog. Now I'm covering government and rural affairs and live in Anchorage with my wife, Rebecca. (Update: Our daughter Alice was born May 31. Thanks everyone for the suggestions.) E-mail me at khopkins@adn.com and find me on Twitter at twitter.com/ADNVillage.

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Tribe bills Native corporation for $500,000 in 'taxes' - 12/1/2011 6:38 pm

Grade the state's new suicide prevention plan - 10/26/2011 2:38 pm

Quinhagak woman launching supply shop for Native artists - 10/21/2011 10:11 am

AFN proposals: Should Columbus Day be abolished? - 10/20/2011 10:10 am

Iditarod champion Baker: "I won’t pretend that living in rural Alaska isn’t difficult at times" - 10/19/2011 1:52 pm

Kids these days: Meet the teens of the Elders & Youth conference - 10/18/2011 6:36 pm

Murkowski to hold Senate hearing on suicide at AFN - 10/14/2011 4:13 pm

Sitka man collapses, dies during apparent seal hunt

From The Associated Press:

The U.S. Coast Guard says a rescue helicopter rushed to help a stricken sailor off Sitka, but a flight surgeon who had been lowered into his boat was unable to revive him.

The guard says 72-year-old Sitka resident Ralph Guthrie and his wife were seal hunting Saturday when he collapsed aboard his 40-foot skiff.

His wife made an emergency call and the Coast Guard quickly launched an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew that included the surgeon and a rescue swimmer.

After the two were lowered into the craft, the swimmer moved the skiff to a nearby beach and both crew members worked to revive him. But the guard says that Guthrie died despite their efforts.

Note: The Coast Guard says authorities are looking at whether Guthrie was legally hunting seal.

“We don’t know if the people were out there under a subsistence grant or not," said Petty Officer 1st Class David Mosely.

Mosley said the Coast Guard also rescued two stranded boaters suffering mild hypothermia near Kalgan Island in Cook Inlet yesterday.

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