🌱 Library Director Resigns + Mobile Crisis Team + Damaged Roads

Happy Saturday, Anchorage! Here's everything you need to know to start today off on an informed note. Here's everything happening around Anchorage today.

First, today's weather:

A bit of snow and rain. High: 34 Low: 26.

Here are the top stories in Anchorage today:

1. Anchorage’s appointed library director, Judy Norton Eledge, resigned on Friday, according to Mayor Dave Bronson’s office. Bronson appointed Eledge, a longtime Alaska educator, in August, following a scuffle with the Anchorage Assembly over his first choice for the library director, Sami Graham. The Assembly refused to confirm Graham, saying she failed to meet minimum qualifications for the position. (Anchorage Daily News)
2. A new team of Anchorage first responders focuses on mental health crises. Officials say it frees up hospital beds and public safety resources. The Mobile Crisis Team pairs a mental health clinician with a paramedic to respond to behavioral health calls. But its future is unclear due to proposed budget cuts. (Anchorage Daily News)
3. The weather system that dumped heavy rains in parts of south-central Alaska over the past week damaged roads in the ski community of Girdwood. Officials in the community, which is part of the Municipality of Anchorage, hope to receive financial help to respond to the damage. (U.S. News & World Report)

Today in Anchorage:

• Bank of America Museums on Us - Anchorage Chamber of Commerce (10:00 AM)
• NaNoWriMo Write-In Event - Anchorage Library Online (10:00 AM)
• Self-Guided Storytime Journey @ Chugiak-Eagle River (10:30 AM)
• Family Storytime @ Loussac - Anchorage Public Library (11:00 AM)
• Live Painting Demonstration with Will Kozloff (12:00 PM)
• Self-Guided Storytime @ Muldoon - Muldoon Branch Library (2:30 PM)

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— Miranda Fraraccio

About me: Miranda Fraraccio is a born and raised Rhode Islander. She works as a freelance copywriter for content creation agency Lightning Media Partners and as an assistant producer for a live-lit storytelling show in Chicago. She holds a degree in Writing & Rhetoric and Communication Studies from The University of Rhode Island. In her free time, you can find her traveling, hiking, or photographing her neighborhood as a street photographer.