Sitkan Bill Foster dazzles the crowd during one of two showings of wearable art over the weekend. Foster is a retired Alaska Airlines baggage handler (and biology teacher); his piece goes a long way toward explaining why our luggage may have gone missing over the years. Next up for Sitka's ArtiGras: The first-ever "Tattoo as Body Art" Show on Monday, March 12. Warning: Foster will be in that show, too!
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Melissa Hantke, co-director of the Fireweed Dance Theater, and Laura Turcott, guest choreographer, discuss the company's annual performance 7 PM Sat Mar 10 at the Sitka Performing Arts Center.
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Sitka girls, boys capture regional 3A basketball titles; Mt. Edgecumbe Braves to go to state as second seed. Mt. Edgecumbe students mix business and philanthropy with wristband project. Fast Ferry builder seeks bankruptcy protection, delaying state lawsuit. Republican presidential preference poll to take place on Super Tuesday.
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A small business class at Mt. Edgecumbe High School in Sitka is gearing up for a commercial venture this spring. If all goes well, the students should earn back the money they invested in the business, plus a profit that they’ll distribute to shareholders as a dividend.While this all sounds fairly typical for a high school business class, it is actually something quite innovative. The Mt. Edgecumbe students developed their business plan with the goal of helping Sitka’s homeless population.
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Mt. Edgecumbe business students have launched a small company to sell wristbands, and they'll split the profits with an organization fighting homelessness in Sitka. Kayla Merculief (Jr-Sitka) is the CEO of the business, Richard Corbett (Sr-Dillingham) is the VP of Marketing, and Robert Nielsen (Soph-Anch) is the VP of Public Relations.
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Sitka teams stack the finals of today's 3A regional basketball tournament in Ketchikan (and both the boys' and girls' championships are rematches of the 2011 final). Yakutat boys and girls will play in tonight's 2A final at Mt. Edgecumbe High. Bad weather cancelled the para-jumping, but the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Coast Guard did a lot of flying yesterday (Thu 3-1-12) in joint exercises in Sitka. Alaska Board of Fisheries approves a rare charter/commercial compromise: safely releasing rockfish unwanted by sport fishermen.
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The aircraft from Vancouver Island, along with the U.S. Coast Guard’s MH-60T helicopter managed to get up in the air for a little while on Thursday. But as the snowflakes moved in and visibility moved out, they returned to the Air Station Sitka and put the training on hold.
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Sitka Historical Museum curator Jackie Fernandez and the Greater Sitka Arts Council's Jeff Budd discuss "Community Couture," a wearable art exhibit planned by the museum this month. Any wearable art -- regardless of whether it has appeared in one of Sitka's runway showns -- may be entered in the exhibit.
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3A/2A Region V basketball tournament updates. Sitka Historical Museum unveils plans for a 6,000-square-foot expansion. State Board of Fisheries allows the continued use of power-reels by sports fishermen. Senate bipartisan majority fires back at Gov. Parnell's suggestion that oil tax form represents an "increase."
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Planning for the expansion of the Sitka Historical Museum has moved from talk to floor plans. Museum director Bob Medinger displayed two options for a 6,000 square-foot addition to Harrigan Centennial Hall for the Sitka Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday (2-29-12). See the floor plans here.
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