August 2013 - Page 5 of 9

Foggy farewell

An unbelievable streak of beautiful summer weather came to an abrupt end Thursday evening...

Coast Guard detects oil leak from sunken tender southwest of Petersburg. Playwright "pulls back curtain" on Alaska public radio. A pair of Ketchikan bald eagles recovering in Sitka from mystery ailment. ADF&G asks Fairbanks bird hunters to hold off for two weeks.

Playwright ‘pulls back curtain’ of Alaska public radio

A playwright is spending the summer working on a project that could be of interest -- literally -- to everyone listening right now. Sarah DeLappe is melding the experiences of her sister at KNOM in Nome, with interviews at KCAW in Sitka, to write a play about a public radio station in Alaska.

Moran: Finding connections between art, politics, philosophy

Brooklyn-based Jarrett Moran is the editor-in-chief of Artlog, and a rising art critic in a profession dominated by typically older practitioners. He's interested in the connection between philosophy, politics, and art. He's one of seven residents in this year's Sitka Fellows program.

Thu Aug 15, 2013

"Deadliest Catch" skipper rescues crew of stricken seiner off coast of Prince of Wales Island. Assembly allows South Benchlands sale to move forward, trusts developer to create affordability. Trees and trails prompt assembly questions.

South Benchlands sale aimed at affordability

The Sitka assembly is moving ahead with the sale of about 20 acres of Benchlands property to a local developer -- but what is ultimately built on the land will depend on market forces, rather than on an affordable housing plan. The assembly agreed to proceed with drawing up an agreement with Sound Development, LLC, after a lengthy discussion about whether city hall should try include language requiring that the result be affordable.

Stanford: Prehistoric European cultures migrated by boat to America

Dennis Stanford has been the director of the Paleoindian/Paleoecology program at the National Museum of Natural History for 40 years. He's become a leading proponent of an idea that is making waves in Anthropology: that North America was populated by the migration of pre-Clovis cultures from Europe. Stanford is the keynote speaker 7:30 PM Sat Aug 17, at the Rasmuson Center, as part of the 2013 Paths Across the Pacific Conference.

Wed Aug 14, 2013

New commission to help assembly become "more strategic, less reactive." Ketchikan Library to be featured in national design magazine.

New commission to help assembly become ‘more strategic, less reactive’

A majority on the Sitka assembly wants to re-establish a long-range planning commission, but a cautious minority is reluctant to repeat some mistakes of the past. The two sides will get together over the next couple of weeks and hammer out the details of what they hope will be a more a results-oriented group.

Ebbesmeyer’s ocean is half predictable, half chaos

Oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer is a leading authority on ocean currents, thanks to his "obsession" with drifting trash. He says science really has no other tool to determine currents than to track debris as it moves across the oceans. He'll speak at 7PM Thu Aug 15 in Rasmuson Hall on tsunami debris, as part of this year's Paths Across the Pacific Conference.