We make-shifted a little store thats been cut down to a third, and only sells shelf-stable foods, Katcheak said Thursday. Last month, Heidi Hedberg, the state health departments commissioner-designee, said the department was hiring workers via an emergency contract to focus solely on food stamps and Medicaid as a way to get the agency back up to speed. Nortons family typically receives around $1,800 a month in SNAP benefits for her family that includes her three young grandchildren, she said. The extent of the food stamp application processing problem first surfaced in late December when multiple Alaska news outlets reported on major delays within the public assistance division, which processes the applications. In Stebbins, a Western Alaska village where nearly all residents qualify for food stamps and few have gotten them, three elders have needed to be hospitalized for malnutrition, said city administrator Daisy Lockwood Katcheak. major delays within the public assistance division, was hiring workers via an emergency contract. She applied for that in September, before the cold arrived. . Within a few days, SNAP funds were deposited in her account. The sole store in Stebbins burned early Tuesday morning, Nov. 29, 2022. Comments are solely the responsibility (Photo by Daisy Katcheak). Alaska Wildlife Troopers say the catastrophic steering failure caused the two people to be thrown into the water. First responders found a fire in one of the rear bedrooms of the home, troopers wrote. Hartman declined any medical treatment. A victim reported Gregg McCord, age 37 of Tyonek, had attempted to sexually assault them but they had been able to escape to a safe place. In an email this week, Hedberg said the state is still processing SNAP applications received in October. In Kivalina, 72-year-old Becky Norton struggled for months to feed her family of nine. to remove posts that include foul language, personal or abusive attacks, or are The cart is for produce, which has not been seen for a while. off-topic. Jason was arrested and remanded to Homer Jail for 2 outstanding felony arrest warrants totaling $7500. Email the Webmaster, Alaska Department Of Public Safety,State Troopers, Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. Since December, the director of the Division of Public Assistance has been replaced, and 10 Alaskans have filed a lawsuit alleging that the delays were a violation of federal law. The organization has been driving out to smaller communities to distribute food in response but the demand hasnt let up, and resources are limited: Meyer said the food bank there has gone through about 75% of its stored food since September, and has seen nearly a 50% increase in the number of families seeking food assistance each day. The second victim, identified as Alexia Wolfson . Hughes will become the first Black colonel in Alaska State Troopers history. Many calling about food stamps are also experiencing delays for other types of public assistance, including senior benefits, Medicaid and heating assistance. Food Bank of Alaska policy and advocacy manager Ron Meehan inside their food warehouse on Viking Drive in Anchorage. Email the Webmaster, Alaska Department Of Public Safety,State Troopers, Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. A man was stranded for five hours Sunday after his snowmachine fell into the Knik River, according to a dispatch from the Alaska State Troopers. And on the front lines, advocates at the Food Bank say the majority of their clients still arent getting benefits in a timely way. Please feel free to submit corrections! Alaska State Troopers and local law enforcement are searching for a Soldotna man who is considered "armed and dangerous," according to a trooper dispatch. Email the Webmaster, Alaska Department Of Public Safety,State Troopers, Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. Kotzebue Alaska State Troopers, a Western Alaska Alcohol/Narcotics Team Investigator, and Buckland VPO, and VPSO who were on scene assisted ABI Investigators with the investigation. Members of Hartmans party and good Samaritans assisted authorities locate the stranded man. To find your local Alaska police frequencies, navigate to your county and enter the frequencies you find into your police scanner. (Bill Roth / ADN). Even in places on the road system, like Soldotna, residents dealing not only with delayed benefits but inflation say the high price of fuel has made it difficult or impossible to drive into town to visit a food pantry, according to Greg Meyer, with the Food Bank in that community. and DailyDispatch.com. As the backlog stretches on, Food Bank of Alaska staff describe staffers exhausted after months of dealing with people going hungry around the state with limited access to food resources. Photographed Feb. 23, 2023. Douglas Carothers moves a pallet of perishable donations to the refrigerator at the Food Bank of Alaska on Viking Drive in Anchorage on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023. Genetic genealogy is a tremendous forensic tool for the Alaska State Troopers to identify both the perpetrators of unsolved homicides and their unidentified victims. My elderly and my children are being impacted. Dispatch Text: On 09/29/2022 at 1236 hours the Alaska State Troopers in Anchor Point contacted Jason Reynolds, age 37 from Anchor Point at a residence near the south end of North Fork Road. People are literally starving, Ron Meehan, Food Bank of Alaskas policy and advocacy manager, said this week. Dispatch Text: On Jan. 1, 2023, Alaska State Troopers in Soldotna received a report of an attempted sexual assault in the village of Tyonek. Sign up to subscribe to custom state Daily Dispatch emails for free (Photo by Linda Greta Camillus). Its been nearly six months since the Alaska Division of Public Assistance first began to fall behind on processing federal food stamp applications, leaving thousands of Alaskans still waiting for benefits to arrive now. The organization is struggling to keep up with the demand, Food Bank officials say. Shortly before midnight Saturday, troopers were notified that a residence was fully engulfed in flames near Lourdes Avenue. Alaska State Troopers said Monday that a residential fire in Port Protection has resulted in the discovery of human remains, per a release published by the agency. With the help of two snowmachines and an all-terrain utility vehicle, the Alaska Wildlife Troopers and Butte Fire rescued 29-year-old Chris Hartman off an ice island after 8 p.m. Dispatch Text: On 11/23/22, at 6:22 pm, Alaska State Troopers were notified of an overdue hunter in the Swanson River area of Sterling. Photographed Feb. 23, 2023. Were continuing to see significant delays in processing, said Magen James, the organizations SNAP coordinator. On Jan. 20, 2021, the incident was reported by the Department of Public Safety in a daily dispatch. One woman died when her home caught fire in Big Lake this week, the Alaska State Troopers reported. As of February 1, 2023, we have used genetic genealogy to help solve four cold cases and to identify three previously unknown victims. So if we know that someone is struggling, people will make little care packages. Daily Dispatch and DailyDispatch.com reserve the right to refrain from publishing or Norton filled out her recertification application in November, and by January, still hadnt heard anything back from the states Division of Public Assistance regarding the status of her application. The Houston Fire Department was called to a residential fire in Big Lake around 8:50 a.m. Monday, according to an online trooper dispatch report. Sign up to subscribe to custom state Daily Dispatch emails for free, The I found in the bottom of my freezer a single leg bone, enough to make soup, she said. The program made it easier for Alaskans to receive maximum benefits without annual recertifications. (Bill Roth / ADN). She knew that if she became truly desperate, she could post in a local Facebook group to ask for assistance from her neighbors. Norton herself is still waiting on her state application for energy assistance, one of several programs also experiencing delays. address will remain private, as noted in our, 2023 The Daily Dispatch, a service of the Western Fire Chiefs Association (v2.0), COVID-19 vaccination and testing mandates for EMS agencies, NFPA announces dedication of the 21st edition of the Fire Protection Handbook to Kathleen Almand, 2022 RAM 5500 Crew CAB 4X4 True North Rapid Attack Type VI Fire Truck, NFA Wildland Urban Interface: Fire-Adapted Communities, NFA Youth Firesetter Intervention Specialist, NFA Wildland Urban Interface Firefighting for the Structural Company Officer. On 01/06/2023 at 2022 hours the Alaska State Troopers in Anchor Point conducted a traffic stop near 8 Mile East End Road for an equipment violation. A Detachment AK23006806 Location: Soldotna Type: DUI / No Insurance Dispatch Text: State officials attributed the public assistance processing delays to a staff shortage, a cyberattack that disrupted online services for months, and an influx of recertification applications in early fall when an emergency pandemic-era program expired in September. Over the last year, the Food Bank of Alaska also experienced a drop in the amount of food it has been able to provide, he said. And unfortunately, I had to tell people that theyre going to have to wait. In recent months, Stebbins officials have had to rely on food donations from the Red Cross, the Food Bank of Alaska and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium to keep residents fed. As the backlog stretches on, Food Bank of Alaska staff describe staffers exhausted after months of dealing with people going hungry around the state with limited access to food resources. off-topic. Then in November, the communitys only store burned down. with the registered users account; the registered users address, phone and e-mail Alaska News. While Norton waited for her SNAP benefit application to be approved, she said she searched through her freezer for any caribou remnants from past hunts a once plentiful but now scarce food source for her family with the decline of local herds. Investigation resulted in the driver, Derek Ball, age 37 from Homer being arrested for DUI, MIW 4th (x2), and DWLR with prior convictions. In rural Alaska, where food costs can be astronomical and food banks or pantries are rare, residents are experiencing particularly dire consequences from the unprecedented backlog, advocates say. We welcome comments from registered users. Comments are solely the responsibility But as March approaches, the backlog still hasnt been cleared. Tracks in the snow showed the girl had headed toward the beach. to remove posts that include foul language, personal or abusive attacks, or are Posts will be signed with the first and last initial and home city associated Ashland, KY 12.1 mi. Posts will be signed with the first and last initial and home city associated The Anchorage Daily News has been reporting on the state's mental health crisis for years, demonstrating that underfunding and organizational failures have resulted in a "warehousing model of. (Bill Roth / ADN). Thousands of Alaskans already been waiting months to receive SNAP benefits reported spending hours on hold with the states virtual call center only to be told there was nothing to be done to speed up the process. Photographed on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023. So many of our food banks and food pantries simply do not have the capacity to meet this need, Meehan said. of those who post them; their viewpoints are not endorsed by the Daily Dispatch Alaska State Troopers Trunking Frequencies & Talkgroups Search Dispatches: Date Range (Text Optional) Enter start date: Enter end date: Text: OR Incident Number Theyre calling and saying We have nothing, Meehan said, referring to the handful of communities where people have reached out for help. Staff with the Food Bank of Alaska this week, however, said theyre still working with clients whose applications are marked as received in September with no action taken since. While Alaskans all over the state have been struggling as a result of the delays, officials with the Food Bank of Alaska said they have been contacted by people in multiple villages in rural Alaska particularly in Western and Northwest Alaska asking for assistance with an urgency that reflected the lack of a safety net in many of these communities. Homer Police Chief Mark Robl said on Tuesday that troopers found the girl on Bishop's Beach below Crittenden Drive. According to the dispatch, Hartman and several others were returning from a snowmachine trip when the incident occurred. Not much, but to help them get by.. Norton finally got help expediting her application from Alaska Legal Services. Dispatch Services The DPS Northern Dispatch Center, in Fairbanks, dispatches for C and D Detachments and portions of A Detachment. of those who post them; their viewpoints are not endorsed by the Daily Dispatch A woman called Alaska State Troopers around 10 a.m. and reported that a man was crying on her. A 57-year-old Anchorage man shot and killed during the incident Monday did not fire his weapon, a preliminary investigation showed. Stories are emerging of people digging to the bottom of their freezers for scarce game, relying on friends and neighbors to fill empty shelves, and even in some rare cases requiring hospitalization for malnutrition. Food Bank staff said they are able to deliver food to struggling food pantries in some communities, but are limited by dwindling resources, rising food costs and fewer donations even as more people need help due to Alaskas delays processing applications in the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. The hunter, Michael Glover, age 47 of Sterling, had left to hunt alone around 11:00 am, and had not returned well after dark. Troopers wrote in the dispatch that a relative of Coopers who lived on the same property in a camper reported that she had come to his camper and told him there was an explosion in her house. According to the dispatch report, Cooper told the relative she was going to take shelter in a neighbors home. On top of that, theres such a delay with the food stamps, so my people are further being impacted by that., The store in Stebbins is struggling to keep food and other supplies in stock. I purchase about $1,000 worth of products on Monday, and by Wednesday, everything has been depleted, she said. On January 17, 2023, at 2:30 pm, the Alaska State Troopers received a report of a polar bear attack in Wales. "The . address will remain private, as noted in our, 2023 The Daily Dispatch, a service of the Western Fire Chiefs Association (v2.0), COVID-19 vaccination and testing mandates for EMS agencies, NFPA announces dedication of the 21st edition of the Fire Protection Handbook to Kathleen Almand, 2022 RAM 5500 Crew CAB 4X4 True North Rapid Attack Type VI Fire Truck, NFA Wildland Urban Interface: Fire-Adapted Communities, NFA Youth Firesetter Intervention Specialist, NFA Wildland Urban Interface Firefighting for the Structural Company Officer. At around 10:50 p.m. Alaska State Troopers fired at the suspect and made their way into the home to prevent any harm to the woman and the three . Operating Procedures Manual: Her sister, who applied for benefits around the same time she did, still hasnt received any word from the state about the application she submitted over four months ago. Source: KINY-AM 103.5 Juneau ; Published: 10/24/2022 12:00 AM; Email Article; View Full Article; . The secondary trauma of dealing with people that are starving every single day has been taking such a toll on my staff, James said. For information on submitting an obituary, please contact The Herald-Dispatch by phone at 304-526-2793 or email at hdobits@hdmediallc.com. Alaska News CHANGE STATE Monday, February 27, 2023 'It was truly his purpose in life:' Wife of fallen medic from Anchorage shares her husband's story Their romance began far from home, in a place few would consider romantic: the war-torn, rubbled, dusty city of Mosul, Iraq. There was nothing that we can do.. Investigation revealed that VPOs in Buckland received an anonymous tip about Ballot importing alcohol into Buckland. 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