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Attention, KBHR shoppers. While Ruth-Anne Miller's off doing her Kerouac thing, we've set up a special food and hardware hotline to keep those staples flowing for the duration of our general store crisis.

Now, it says Kim Green is making a run to Cantwell this afternoon for baked goods. Get your orders in toute de suite.

You know, old Walt's the only other one to ever get old Goony on a hook. Back in July of '68 I believe it was.

Move over, Elvis. Gunaakadeit is back.

That's right, folklore fans. Cicely's own version of the Loch Ness Monster was hooked today by our own Dr. Joel Fleischman at about 1:12 in the afternoon, and the battle's still ragin' over at East Loon Lake.

For those of you that aren't up on the legend, Goony, known to locals for a century as a fabulous sea monster, has been making guest appearances on totems and all kinds of representative art. The first modern sightings were in 1931. Now he's been poppin' up about once every 15 years.

Scientific speculation has centered on the idea that a landlocked sturgeon species may have been trapped in the last glacier. Now, attempts to photograph this mythical bottom dweller have been frustrated by the turbidity and the depth of Loon Lake, although a marine biology team from the University of Washington did report unusual sonar findings in 1973.

Ruth-Anne, you're out of salt and vinegar chips.