Sitka hosts several students every year through the AFS program. One of them is 17-year-old Omar Kamal Ali, an exchange student from Egypt. Omar sat down with his local liaison Peter Apathy to talk about his home thousands of miles away and the one’s he’s fostering here in Sitka.
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What is it like to lose a loved one to a bombing? Or to leave the Gaza Strip for the first time? How about harboring a major crush on a British pop band in Indonesia or reckoning American stereotypes about your home country Tanzania? Four exchange students wrote personal essays about that for Raven Radio this year.
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With the school year in full swing, so is the music education program in the Sitka School District. And there comes a moment of reckoning in the 5th grade where students pick up an instrument - sometimes for the first time - and learn how to play.
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Power went out in Sitka near Peterson Avenue early this morning (11/16/17). This is the second outage in the past seven day to affect residents off Halibut Point Road. In both outages, the cause was aging infrastructure.
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Residents of Shelikof Way experienced a short power outage Friday evening (11/10/17), when aging infrastructure faulted atop an electric pole.
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As far as dump make-overs go, Yakutat has the ultimate Cinderella story. Barging trash away is too expensive. So, as the dump filled to the brim, what was Yakutat to do?
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A car struck a bicyclist in the 2400-block of Halibut Point Road on Sunday. Sitka Police report the bicyclist was not wearing a helmet and sustained a head injury.
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The public works department began flushing Sitka’s water distribution mains today (10-30-17), an annual event to clean the pipes. Their work will take place in different residential areas for the next week.
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A yacht that ran aground in Sitka three weeks ago remains on the rocks, but is completely defueled and may be salvaged next week. The Alaskan Dream struck a rock in Sitka Sound during high tide on October 7th.
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As Halloween approaches, the costume scramble is underway. One of the most popular is for a character that first appeared on the public’s radar in October 1941: Wonder Woman.
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