"As mayor, I would work with the people of Sitka to explore every idea for making Sitka a better place to live in all aspects. I would work hard to make Sitka's government an open and respectful entity. I would also work with the state, the legislature, the U.S. Congress and industry groups to improve Sitka's economy."
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Carol Odess made the donation in support of Allen Memorial Hall, on the Sheldon Jackson campus. The building holds a number of dance studios and an auditorium. The building will keep its name, but the theater inside will be named in honor of Odess and her late husband, Jack.
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A photographer who has chronicled the Israel-Palestine conflict since 2003 arrives in Sitka this weekend. Skip Schiel calls himself a "participatory photographer."
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Candice Winkler, with the Alaska Community Foundation, and Willow Moore, executive director of Brave Heart Volunteers, discuss the ACF Affiliate Program, and the advantages of structured philanthropy. Winkler will give a presentation on the topic this morning (Fri 9-21-12) at 10:30 AM at the Hames Center.
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School board candidate forum focuses on technology, parent support. Visiting photojournalist explores the hydropolitics of the Israel/Palestine conflict. No red or blue king crab fishing in Southeast this season.
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Nanuck, the dog, takes a flying leap into Heart Lake near Sitka on Thursday afternoon (9-20-12). Temperatures throughout the region topped 60, with clear skies and light winds. Elsewhere in the state, however, Anchorage and the Mat-Su experienced their second severe windstorm of the fall.
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School board candidates Cass Pook and Jennifer Robinson answered listener questions in our studio on Wednesday night. Pook has been on the school board since 2002. Robinson is running as a write-in candidate.
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Sitka Conservation Society staffers Natalia Povelite (Tongass salmon organizer), Ray Friedlander (Tongass forest organizer), and Courtney Bobsin (Jesuit Volunteer, Fish-to-Schools) discuss their respective projects, and why they chose to work in Sitka.
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Biologists spot "glacier deer" during goat survey. KCAW mayoral candidate forum draws many calls. Listen to the entire forum. Kake contract could be a model for small-scale Tongass restoration. Southeast power agency explores storing hydro power using hydrogen.
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Alaska Department of Fish & Game biologist Phil Mooney was tagging mountain goats on Baranof Island outside of Sitka in late August and saw the unusual animal from his helicopter.The Sitka black-tailed deer is a buck, still in velvet. The animal is a very light, bluish gray. When a black bear has this kind of coloring, it’s called a “glacier bear.”
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