Sitkans rally to oppose genetically-modified salmon. School board, assembly consider possibility of self-insuring. Forest Service launches 5-year review of TLMP. Senate Finance Committee takes 2-hours of testimony on cruise ship wastewater.
Amanda Taylor arrived in Sitka from Minnesota as an Americorp Volunteer. She immediately felt a connection with the community the fit right in working at Braveheart...so she stayed! We're lucky to have Amanda in the community and we all got to know her a little better when she agreed to share her wishlist if she was shipwrecked on a "dessert-ed" island with only ten songs and one dessert to fill her days.
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Sitkans hold a candlelight vigil for Mackenzie Howard of Kake at 6 pm on Fri., Feb. 8, 2013 at the Salvation Army. Alaska State Troopers received a report that the 13-year-old's body had been found shortly before midnight on Tues. State troopers are investigating the case as a homicide. Vigils are being held for Howard across Alaska this evening.
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Sitka Conservation Society community organizer Ray Friedlander, concerned citizen Paul Rioux, and Blatchley Middle School student David Wilcox discuss their concerns with FDA approval process for genetically-modified salmon. A rally is planned tomorrow (Sat Feb 9) at 1 PM in the Crescent Harbor shelter, and in other communities around the state.
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Troopers identify Kake victim as 13-year-old girl; now a homicide investigation. Vigils planned tonight in Kake and around state for MacKenzie Howard. School board warned: Vouchers coming. Varsity soccer wins funding, but no promises.
The vigils begin at 6 p.m. in most places. In Kake, mourners will gather at the Old Grade School. In Juneau, they’ll gather at Sealaska Plaza. The Sitka event is planned at the Salvation Army, on Sawmill Creek Road near the roundabout.
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The Sitka School Board authorized spending $6,000 out of reserves to fund the high school’s co-ed varsity soccer program for the coming spring season. The money was about one-third of that originally requested for the program. Board members consented to the lesser amount with this caveat: Next year, there may be no district funding whatsoever – for soccer or some other popular activities.
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A recent legislative fly-in for the Alaska School Boards Association signaled some changes and challenges in the near future for the state's public schools. According to Sitka school board president Lon Garrison, increased basic funding is a "non-starter" for the new Republican majorities in the legislature. Instead, school vouchers and state-sanctioned charter schools are the new policy direction.
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Sitka National Historical Park chief ranger Carin Farley and resident Eric Jordan discuss "Park Prescriptions," a program of the Sitka Health Summit designed to encourage medical professionals to prescribe walking as a therapy.
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Troopers release few detail in Kake death investigation. Interview:Tele Aadsen on her life as a commercial fisherman. Recent quakes on Queen Charlotte fault of special interest to seismologists.
