The economy in Sitka – like the rest of the state – appears to have turned a corner. According to the latest quarterly report Trends published by the Sitka Economic Development Association, income and employment are on the way up.
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Van Hanson is a busy fellow: songwriter, musician, board game designer and creator/director of Sitka's 48-hour Film Festival. We're glad that he found time to pick the ten songs that he'd choose to have with him on a deserted island. He also chose his grandma's strawberry rhubarb pie, but get this - the recipe is secret - so you'll have to go straight to the source because we can't post it here. Here are his songs, and the show.
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Sitka will soon have its own community endowment. The Greater Sitka Legacy Fund, a newly formed nonprofit in town, has been chosen as an affiliate of the Alaska Community Foundation to support philanthropy in the area.
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Students match a mountain goat skull to its hide at Keet Gooshi Heen Elementary School's science night. The program, now in its second year, started when the Anchorage Museum visited Sitka last year.
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Former Sheldon Jackson Museum curator Rosemary Carlton and artist Sarah Williams discuss the 25th Anniversary celebration of the museum's Native Artist Demonstration Program, 5-8 PM Saturday January 26, 2013.
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Improvements to downtown Sitka have been discussed before, usually in the context of cruise ship tourism. But cruise tourism has been on a ten-year decline in Sitka, and the conversation about downtown revitalization this time may have more to do with community than commerce. Retailer Melissa Danville and landscape architect Monique Anderson are both involved in Revitalize Sitka.
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School board reviews safety procedures in wake of Newtown shootings. Renewable Energy Alaska Project aiming to make state 15-percent more energy efficient by 2020. State Labor Commissioner says hers is the "department of opportunity."
During a school board work session Wednesday night on the subject of school safety, officials said it would be a good idea to have an outside audit on how the district’s five school buildings can be even safer.
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Russian pianist Alexander Tutunov is the father of 8-month old twin girls. Teaching and performing in Sitka this weekend, by comparison, is a vacation.
Transportation Commissioner Pat Kemp has apologized for keeping the Marine Highway Advisory Board out of the loop on the Alaska Class Ferry.
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