https://www.kcaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/interview_070512.mp3 Click here for iFriendly audio. Keiko Tokunaga (violin) and Luke Fleming (viola) explain the origins of their name: the Attacca Quartet. They’re joined by...
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Air Station Sitka medevacks heart patient from Celebrity Century. Fourth of July audio postcard. Blatchley remodel in full swing. Ferry system rethinks Lynn Canal summer schedule. Search underway for missing Haines gillnetter.
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A perfect calm in the Sitka Channel Tuesday evening (7-3-12) gave fireworks-watchers a double-treat: starbursts mirrored in the still water. The $10,000 display (sponsored by Petro Marine) also launched on schedule at 11:30 PM, breaking a two-year streak of lengthy weather delays. Returning college student Caitlin Woolsey captured this image from a boat in the harbor.
A major renovation of Blatchley Middle School is in full swing. The $12 million project will see a completely remodeled interior in the building. Workers also are changing the system’s climate control and other mechanical systems. Engineers hope doing so will mean savings in the long run.
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The Greater Sitka Arts Council's Jeff Budd discusses this August's planned Sitka "State Fair." The one-day event will take place 12-5 PM on August 19. Click here for more information and to download an entry form.
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Sitka man indicted on felony drug and weapons charges. Authorities suspend searches for two missing in Stikine area. Infant abandoned in Sitka harbor restroom returns as adult, meets rescuers. Scientists dispute state's methods in reporting of shellfish toxicity.
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in Sitka, races bring a little something extra—a different set of universalities—and this June’s (6-23-12) solstice run at Medvejie was no exception. While 80 degrees and sunny is hardly a Sitka norm, the angles and curves of the mountainous horizon—all granite and forest and snow, more rugged and high than I remember when they have disappeared behind a wall of fog—are rarely around for other races.
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On a winter night in 1994, a newborn baby was found lying in a sink at Sitka’s Thomsen Harbor. Eighteen years later, that girl is now a young woman named Karissa Amrhein. She graduated from high school this spring and last week, she returned to Sitka.
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A grand jury indicted Sitka resident Lowell T. Ford on felony drug and weapons charges Friday.
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Former KCAW cooking show host Susan Brawnlyn will be grilling lettuce and roasting rhubarb at this Saturday's Farmer's Market (10AM-2PM ANB Hall). She's joined by market coordinator Johanna Willingham to discuss the first event of the season.
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