When the town of Skagway went to sleep on Friday, they had daily ferry service. By mid-morning the next day, that service was gone.

The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Utilities (DOT) issued a notice on Saturday that there would be no ferry service to Skagway for the “foreseeable future.”

The department cited major structural damage to the state-owned ferry docking facility.

Skagway’s borough manager, Emily Deach, heard the news Saturday morning. She got…