The Morning Interview

Arts Council looks ahead to March ArtiGras festival


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Greater Sitka Arts Council members Jeff Budd and Jen Rogers discuss this year’s ArtiGras Festival. For full details — including an application for the 2013 Wearable Arts Show — visit the Greater Sitka Arts Council online.

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Mon May 20, 2013

Land trusts create enduring framework for affordable housing. A smaller Sealaska land selection bill faces opposition from the USFS. Tongass Futures Roundtable concludes work, disbands.

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Land trusts an enduring framework for affordable housing

Cleo_thumb Trusts are becoming a more common way to create affordable housing, by allowing people to own homes, but not the land underneath them. They have a long track record in the lower 48, for the moment they’re a new idea in Sitka. The Sitka Community Development Corporation would like to change that. Board members and volunteers have launched a campaign to build awareness about Community Land Trusts, and to explain why they think CLT’s are a good fit for Sitka. more