Two stories that have implications for the population of Anchorage (this includes East Anchorage)
Alaska Newsreader
Hooters goes under. The Anchorage Hooters restaurant - until this week, the northernmost location of the eatery - abruptly closed its doors Tuesday, leaving many employees unpaid and angry, a KTUU Channel 2 story reports. “It was Tuesday that they told me, ‘Don't come in because no one would be here,’ ” a waitress, Kelsey Carr, told the station. She said she tried to deposit her latest check “into my account and my bank bounced it and I have been holding it waiting for the funds to be available.” A co-owner in a phone interview blamed the closure on “slumping sales,” according to the story. He said he hoped to pay employees by the end of the week.
Pot smuggling ring busted. Millions of dollars worth of pot came into Alaska in inflatable boats, snowmobiles and travel trailers in a pot smuggling scheme operated by five men accused in the case, according to a story today in The Province newspaper of Vancouver. Four Alaskans and a Vancouver man brought regular shipments into Alaska from January 2004 and late 2007, according to the story. The indictment in the case, which was returned in Anchorage, seeks the sale of a Wasilla home. None of the individuals accused are yet in custody, the story says.