At a fashion show in Sitka, residents have traded in the usual fabrics for more eccentric media. Maybe it’s a dress that’s all zippers. Or a suit made out of nautical charts. Or a purse composed of bicycle valve stems. In Milan or Paris, this might be called madness. In Sitka, it’s called wearable art.
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The city’s main water line from Blue Lake will be shut down between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on March 11 and 13. The interruption is happening because of construction on the new powerhouse at the Blue Lake dam.
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A state energy rebate program hopes to incentivize energy efficient homes in Alaska. Jimmy Ord, with the Alaska Housing Finance Corp., says homeowners can get between $4,000 and $10,000 for making improvements.
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A Sitka grand jury on Friday charged 54-year-old Joseph Robidou on six counts of felony sexual assault. He also faces an additional five misdemeanor charges for incidents that allegedly happened beginning last May and as recently as January. All of them involve other adults, and prosecutors say students at the school were not involved.
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S&S General Contractors will remove about 25,000 cubic yards of rock near the city’s Jarvis Street Diesel Plant. Sitka already has agreements with S&S, and so, instead of getting bids from other companies, it simply amended its deal with S&S. The company will do the work in exchange for credit toward the $107,000 it owes the city on a quarry lease.
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Grant’s older sister, Erika Grant Burkhouse, says in the initial weeks after her sister's disappearance, a lot of tips came in to authorities. But in the more than four months since then, information has dwindled.
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When he ran for the Alaska House last year, Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins visited each community in his district, knocking on almost every door. Now that he’s been on the job six weeks, the Sitka Democrat is learning that frenetic pace of his campaign was only the beginning.
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We asked you to send us questions for state Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins on Facebook. Here are his responses to a couple of the questions.
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A small delegation from Sitka spent Thursday working the Alaska Capitol, trying to convince lawmakers that the city should get $43 million to help fund the Blue Lake dam expansion. The odds that will actually happen are more than long, but the community's mayor says it's always worth a shot.
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Most of the tourism talk at Tuesday's Assembly meeting focused on the city’s Sea Walk project. Sitka has about $1.8 million to spend on the pathway from Crescent Harbor to the Sitka National Historical Park, and it's about to go looking for someone to build it.
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