USCG hoists woman, 72, from cruise ship near Sitka. Courtright hopes to bring teacher's perspective to school board. Southeast Conference wants to change Tongass management. Auditions tomorrow for musical in new Odess theater.
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Ellen Daly and Penny Lehmann outline the schedule for Health Summit Week. A Health Fair will kick off the week this Saturday morning (8:30-12:30 Sat Sep 21). Anyone interested in a full blood test should fast 10-12 hours prior to attending the fair. Breakfast will be available afterwards. See the complete schedule for the week at the Sitka Health Summit website.
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A helicopter from Air Station Sitka met up with the 952-foot vessel in Icy Strait. According to Coast Guard video, the incident happened around 6:45 p.m.
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A teacher at Mt. Edgecumbe High School is competing for a seat on Sitka’s school board. Stephen Courtright teaches music at the state-run boarding school. He says helping make policy for local schools is a way to contribute to the community, and bring in a teacher’s perspective.
The Southeast Conference wants to change the way the Tongass National Forest is managed.
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Forty years ago, poet Ann Staley bought her first piece of artwork in Ashland, Oregon. It was a watercolor painting of a tree by Norm Campbell. Staley and Campbell have maintained a long friendship ever since. Over the next several weeks, the pair will collaborate on art and poetry in a new residency program developed by Sitka’s Island Institute. She stopped by recently to talk about how a poet and a painter collaborate. She spoke with KCAW’s Robert Woolsey.
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The newly-remodeled Odess Theater is going to stage its first musical in decades this fall. The Sitka Fine Arts Camp has launched a new program called the “Young Performer’s Theater.” Auditions will be held Saturday (9-21-13) for the company’s first show: “The Adventures of Beatrix Potter and Her Friends.”
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Garrison hopes for third term on Sitka school board. TV show will give makeover to Alaska's oldest hotel. Feds take wait-and-see stance on Petersburg's aggressive sea lions.
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Elsbeth Poe is the Young Performer's Theater director at the Sitka Fine Arts Camp. She's joined by camp executive director Roger schmidt to discuss a new after-school theater program for kids age 7-18. They'll be holding auditions this Saturday (9-21-13) at Yaw Chapel for their first musical production, The Adventures of Beatrix Potter and her Friends. For complete audition information visit the Sitka Fine Arts Camp online.
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School board president Lon Garrison has served two terms overseeing Sitka’s schools; this October he’ll ask voters for a third. Garrison, like many board members, was first elected when his kids were in school. Now that his daughters have graduated, he says he’s following his passion, and using experience in policy and legislative advocacy to make a good school district even better.
