Cut open any fish from Southeast Alaska and you’re likely to find herring in its belly. Herring are a forage fish: silver, fatty and loaded with roe. But as the Board of Fish prepares to discuss finish proposals in January 2018, a decades old debate is gaining traction over the stability of Sitka’s herring population.
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Tonight (05-23-17), the Sitka Assembly will review the proposed budget (Ord 2017-16) for the upcoming year.
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The Celebrity Solstice cruise ship will depart three hours earlier than intended today. Instead of leaving at 7 o’clock tonight, it will leave at 4 o’clock this afternoon. The last shuttle from town departs at 3 o’clock.
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Air Station Sitka had a busy weekend, rescuing two kayakers and a paddleboarder stranded in bad weather.
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State regulators have ordered Shee Atiká, Inc. to extend balloting for its board of directors through Saturday (5-20-17), after ruling that the corporation misrepresented the qualifications of an independent candidate.
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Pacific High graduated the Class of 2017 last night (05-18-17), as family and friends took to the stage at Sheet'ká Ḵwáan Naa Kahídi to speak glowingly of the seniors.
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Sitkan Ellen Frankenstein is one of 34 artists to win an Individual Artist Award from the Rasmuson Foundation this weekend.
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The signal for NOAA Weather Radio went down on Friday (05-12-17) in Sitka. Repairs are underway and the radio signal should be restored tomorrow (05-16-17).
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After two years on the job, Sitka Community Hospital board voted to extend CEO Rob Allen’s contract for another year and raise his salary 3%.
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Rock quarries. Affordable housing. Sitka’s student population. These were some the fastballs pitched to Mayor Matthew Hunter at the weekly chamber of commerce luncheon on Wednesday (05-10-17).
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