November 2011 - Page 2 of 9

Uncorked & Unreserved

https://www.kcaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/interview_112811.mp3 John Stein, Bob Medinger, and Jackie Fernandez discuss the upcoming wine tasting and live auction benefit for the Sitka Historical Society, 6-8 PM Friday,...

Mon Nov 28, 2011

https://www.kcaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/news_112811.mp3 Sitka police investigate Thanksgiving break-in at animal shelter. Alaska-class ferries could be more costly than expected. Petersburg assembly courting new Mitkof...

Fri Nov 25, 2011

https://www.kcaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/news_112511.mp3 Thanksgiving comes early for Mt. Edgecumbe students. Sawmill Cove industrial park board faces cash-flow crisis. Snow clones at Eielson AFB. Don Young locks horns...

Groh: Special Counsel report will be public after “bitter litigation”

Former Sitka municipal attorney Cliff Groh attended all five weeks of the Stevens trial. His blog, “Alaska Political Corruption,” was an important source of analysis for media covering the trial. Groh himself appeared on C-SPAN and elsewhere to discuss the complex issues in the case.

Sawmill Cove “burning cash” ’til dam project begins

Sitka’s Sawmill Cove Industrial Park is “burning cash.” That’s the phrase city finance director Jay Sweeney used to describe the situation to the park’s board of directors at their monthly meeting this week (11-21-11). Over the past four months, the park has spent about $90,000 on operations, but only taken in $40,000 in rents and other revenues. That’s an average monthly deficit of $12,500 that Sweeney says the park can’t sustain much beyond a year or 18 months, when its cash reserves run dry.

Thanksgiving comes early for Edgecumbe students

On Wednesday morning, a yellow school bus pulls up to the front of Sitka’s Harrigan Centennial Hall, and students from Mt. Edgecumbe High School stream out of it. They’re moving quickly, mostly because it’s cold, but perhaps also because good things are about to happen inside this building.