Paulette James, from Pacific High School, describes a community engagement class where students learn about the resources available to help people come back from meth. A Got Resiliency event is planned for Saturday, May 4, 7-9PM at Crescent Harbor shelter featuring the Gaja Heen Dancers, a film screening, Silver Jackson, and other local performers.
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Librarian Sarah Bell outlines plans for crepe and pancake feed at the library in celebration of National Library Week (10 AM Sat 4-20-13). Patrons will brainstorm "Anythink" ideas, and a major donor toward library expansion will be announced.
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Trish White, with the Sitka Sound Science Center, and Jeff Budd, with the Sitka Summer Music Festival, discuss the Black & White event planned for this Saturday evening (5 PM 4-20-13) when a baby whale skeleton will be unveiled, followed by "classic" performances benefitting the music festival.
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School board to hold final budget meeting tonight; major cuts expected. Sen. Stedman says oil tax cuts will be felt first in smaller communities. FAA furloughs for air traffic controllers could delay flights, Alaska Airlines says.
Whooping cough makes a comeback in Alaska. House minority leader calls recently-concluded session "worst ever." Audio Postcard: Ninja captures mooing rhinos.
School board plans to spend two-thirds of its reserves to make ends meet next year, plus cuts to Community Schools, middle-school shop program. Petersburg's longest-serving firefighter dies.
Officials in the Sitka School District decide tonight what stays and what goes in the year ahead. The school board is trying to close a nearly $400,000 deficit, and it could make big cuts to get there.
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Alexis Will, a graduate student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, calls herself a “Ninja of the Night,” but it has nothing to do with martial arts. Will is a biologist who studies the foraging behavior of the Rhinoceros Auklet, a sea bird which returns to land only once every twenty-four hours, during Alaska’s short summer nights.
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We now have the new t-shirts in at the Raven Radio retail shop! They come in unisex and women's cuts and sizes. The unisex shirts come in black with white screen printing, or grey with black screen printing. The women's come in black and white. Stop by the retail shop and pick one up!
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The board is planning to spend more than two-thirds of its savings to help patch a deficit. But even after that move, and some retirements and health insurance changes, it still has nearly $400,000 to make up. Looking at those numbers, it appears likely the district will need to cut positions and lay off employees.
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