🌱 Woman Faces Arson Charges + ChangePoint To Host Vax Skeptics

Rise and shine, Anchorage! It's Thursday, so let's get you started with everything you need to know going on in town today.

First, today's weather:

A little afternoon snow. High: 34 Low: 27.

Here are the top stories today in Anchorage:

1. A woman accused of setting a home on fire in Anchorage’s Turnagain neighborhood last week now faces arson charges. Neighbors near the Loussac Drive home “reported hearing loud booms and seeing heavy billows of smoke and flames coming from the residence” around 10 a.m. on Oct. 18. Neighbors reported hearing an early morning argument and seeing a woman speeding from the house shortly after the fire began, according to the charging documents. (Anchorage Daily News)
2. With COVID-19 hospitalizations at near-record levels, a gathering of vaccine skeptics is coming to Anchorage. No contact information was listed on the website for the event, which takes place Saturday at ChangePoint Church, one of the largest churches in Anchorage. The church has hosted the city’s COVID-19 testing and vaccination clinics for months. ChangePoint Pastor Tony Murrow said ChangePoint is not involved with the event, which was organized by an independent group that had rented the church’s facilities. (KTOO)
3. Early results posted Tuesday show Anchorage Midtown voters strongly rejecting an initiative to recall Assembly Member Meg Zaletel. There are still more votes to be counted. By Tuesday night, the city had tallied 9,320 votes, with about 61 percent of voters rejecting the recall of Zaletel and about 39 percent supporting it. (KTOO)

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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.