It was nonstop basketball action last week (Mar 5 - 9, 2013) at the BJ McGillis gym at Mt. Edgecumbe High School. Twenty basketball teams from Southeast competed for state tournament berths in the 2A, 3A, and 4A classifications.
Tournament results:
2A Girls
#1 - Craig, #2 - Metlakatla.
2A Boys)
3A Girls - Sitka.
3A Boys - Mt. Edgecumbe.
4A Girls - Juneau-Douglas.
4A Boys - Thunder Mt.
Follow this link for complete tournament brackets and scores.
March is national developmental disability awareness month. To support the cause, Kathie Snow, author of Disability is Natural, will be giving a talk in Sitka on Tues., Mar. 5.
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A Sitka grand jury on Friday charged 54-year-old Joseph Robidou on six counts of felony sexual assault. He also faces an additional five misdemeanor charges for incidents that allegedly happened beginning last May and as recently as January. All of them involve other adults, and prosecutors say students at the school were not involved.
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Cary Reid, asst. executive director of the Center for Community, Dwight Payton (training specialist), Rick Rivard (case manager), and Gail Trijulo (early learning program coordinator) discuss the large number of services offered by the center for residents with developmental disabilities.
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Bears will emerge from dens hungry this spring. Lawsuit settled over fast-ferry engines. Democrats introduce legislation to increase base school funding. State workers rally in Juneau in support of contract negotiations.
Trista Patterson has been a kayak guide in Italy, a Fulbright Scholar and worked with the United Nations. For all that, she calls Sitka home and joined us on Earbones February 22nd to share the 10 songs that she would choose to have if stranded on a deserted island. Of course she also brought in a dessert recipe to share, because it is always better to have a sweet something when dancing on your island. Here is a recording of the show, a list of Trista's music and the a recipe for an exquisite chocolate tarte~
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In their natural environment in early spring, bears subsist mainly on grasses and sedges, which Biologist Phil Mooney calls a 'dry salad' compared to the buffet of steak and seafood options available around humans.
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Governor Sean Parnell signed legislation Thursday limiting cruise-ship wastewater restrictions.
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The biggest construction crane in Alaska is now assembled and operating at Sitka’s Blue Lake dam. And the public will be able to take a look this month. The crane itself weighs about 2-million pounds. It has an overall length of 364-feet. The main boom can lift and lower 47,500 pounds. In order to carry that load across the canyon, the crane has 660,000 pounds of counter-weight.
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Bob Love and April Susky, with UAS advising, say it's not too early to start thinking about your summer and fall education plans. A student success center has resources, and there's a new vocational aptitude test.
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