Month: August 2012

AK voters to decide on coastal management

Ballot Measure 2 could reinstate Alaska's coastal zone management program. KTOO's Casey Kelly reports that it's crunch time for the hotly contested issue. You can also listen back to a July debate on the issue at Sitka's Chamber of Commerce luncheon.

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2012 Primary Election

Voters rejected coastal zone management and sent various candidates on to represent their party in November. You can link here to Tuesday's results, and we'll also have lots of information about who's on your ballot in October, and again in November.

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Fri Aug 24, 2012

Who's on the ballot: Profiles of Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, Bill Thomas, Bert Stedman and Albert Kookesh. Arkansas pair gets prison time for murder of Juneau man.

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Thu Aug 23, 2012

Petersburg borough plans now up to voters. Fishing safety program on the line in NIOSH funding debate. Tongass predecessor 110 years old this week.

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Nominations due for Sitka Health Summit

Doug Osborne tells Holly Keen that the sixth annual Health Summit is coming up. It's the event that gave birth to the ideas behind Sitka's bike-friendly status, the farmer's market, the fish-to-schools program and the Choose Respect mural that's hanging on Blatchley Middle School.

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Volunteers search for life during Sitka ‘Bioblitz’

In Sitka over the weekend, about 200 people went searching for life. The volunteers were participating in the community’s first all-encompassing “Bioblitz.” The goal of the event is to find as much life as possible and catalog what it is. That means everything, from beneath the sea to above the mountaintops.

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