https://www.kcaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/interview_012512.mp3 Click here for iFriendly audio. SAFV board chair Brian McNitt and volunteer coordinator Martina Kurzer are accepting nominations for this year’s...
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https://www.kcaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/news_012512.mp3 Click here for iFriendly audio. Assembly considers senior sales tax rebate, raising sales tax cap, to ease city finances. Assembly insists on pitched roof for Pac...
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City officials say there are lots of reasons for wanting to do away with particular sales tax exemptions. They say the city could use the money it would generate. And that they’re looking for a way to cut back on abuse of the exemption for people 65 and older.
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Earlier this month, Assembly members argued an early design for the school had a roof that appeared too flat to allow proper drainage. They insisted on a pitched roof instead. The City of Sitka owns the school buildings.
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https://www.kcaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/interview_012412.mp3 Click here for iFriendly audio. MEHS Lady Braves coach Carl Blackhurst (and 10-month-old son Daniel) and team captain Brandi Hale (Sr.-Hooper Bay) discuss...
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https://www.kcaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/news_012412.mp3 Click here for iFriendly audio. Assembly to consider revising tax code, Pacific High designs, at its regular meeting tonight. Colleagues mourn loss of long-time...
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Public Works foreman Mike Webb reports that a broken water main has forced the closure of Halibut Point Rd. between Marine St. (near Blatchley Middle School) and the roundabout. Traffic will DETOUR along Marine St. and Erhler to the roundabout. Repairs are expected to take a full day on Tuesday.
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Horton died Friday after falling through the ceiling of his home while working in the attic. Horton was hired as Sitka’s magistrate in 1990, and was remembered by colleagues and friends for his talented legal mind and his devotion to family.
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Fighting master Aaron Elmore, with Juneau's Theater in the Rough, teaches a swordfighting clinic to over two dozen Sitkans on Saturday (1-21-12). Students started out with pencils, but quickly worked their way up to real rapiers and foils. Two upcoming Sitka productions, "Moon Over Buffalo" and "Cyrano", both feature extensive swordplay (and daggers!).
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https://www.kcaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/interview_012312.mp3 Click here for iFriendly audio. Jeff Budd, with the Greater Sitka Arts Council (and the Sitka Rotary), says over one-hundred pieces of art will go on sale this...
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