A former Sitka High School student will spend twelve years in prison for molesting a six-year-old child on a school bus. Twenty-year old Alexander Evans received six-year sentences for each of two counts of Sexual Abuse of a Minor.
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It was a weekend of freezing temperatures, but sunny skies, and the weather brought crowds out to Swan Lake, where the Fire Department reported the ice was three to five inches thick.
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Sitka Jazz Fest headliner Carmen Bradford has an unmatched musical pedigree, and a lot of nerve. As a 22-year-old, she once opened for the Count Basie Orchestra. Seeing the Count himself waiting in the wings, Bradford approached him and asked him for a job. When he called nine months later, she thought it was a prank and hung up on him!
Ketchikan Wearable Artist display "luminescence." Wrangell High seniors tour KSTK to learn more about community. GCI, KTUU reach agreement restoring NBC News to rural stations.
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Commercial fisheries have never been more important to Southeast Alaska, and the region’s hatchery programs are a critical part of that success. That was the message Steve Reifenstuhl delivered to the Sitka Chamber of Commerce this week (Wed 2-5-14). Reifenstuhl is the general manager of the Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association based in Sitka. NSRAA is one of two regional nonprofit hatchery programs in the panhandle, and one of the most successful in the state.
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The number of finalists for superintendent of the Sitka School District has been cut from three to two. Eddie Campbell and Mary Wegner will be interviewed by the school board and district staff in Sitka next week. A third candidate, Joseph Krause, is no longer in the running.
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Channel 2 News will soon be back on the air in Southeast Alaska, and rural cable subscribers across the state who have been without NBC will see that programming return, after an agreement announced on Thursday between cable provider GCI and the Anchorage NBC affiliate KTUU.
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It's one thing to study an international crisis in high school, and another thing to do something about it. Pacific High School students Tatyanna Isaacs and Jenny Jeter learned about high rates of maternal mortality in Somaliland in Hillary Seeland's Global Issues class. The pair independently organized and held an Indian Taco sale last fall (that's taco fixings served on classic Southeast Alaskan fry bread) and raised over $500.
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Marienthal is a visiting jazz musician for Sitka's Jazz Fest. He discusses what led him to professionally pursue jazz saxophone, how he originally wanted to play the trumpet, and how braces played a role in the decision.
The Sitka School District's transition to the new Common Core Math curriculum has fallen behind schedule. Sitka High School students want a more active role in policy decisions. The Sitka School Board pushes for more funding for locally-sourced food in schools across the state. The final design for the Alaska Class Ferry is expected to be complete by the end of this month.
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