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A Q&A with Sitka Community Land Trust Co-Executive Directors Mim McConnell and Randy Hughey

This week marks the end of KCAW’s Building Solutions series, a special look at affordable housing solutions in Sitka and Southeast Alaska. To conclude, KCAW’s Erin McKinstry circles back to the Sitka Community Land Trust and talks with Co-Executive Directors Mim McConnell and Randy Hughey. The organization has started an affordable cottage neighborhood with a unique model to help new homeowners enter the market.

Bruhl: Vaccination the most effective health intervention — ever

KCAW’s Robert Woolsey recently spoke with SEARHC chief medical officer Dr. Elliot Bruhl about the history of vaccination as a health intervention, and the possible end game for the COVID-19 pandemic in Sitka, and how vaccination will play a critical role in bringing it about.

Restoration of Fraser Hall to be featured in open house

Rebecca Poulson joins us to discuss an Open House at Fraser Hall, to show the restoration work, plus a slide show of SJ history. Open House 5-8 pm Thursday, May 27, with the slide show 7 to 7:30 pm.

Katie Riley: Affordable housing an investment in a community’s future

28-year old Katie Riley is the youngest member of the Sitka Planning Commission and has a passion for addressing Sitka's affordable housing crisis.

Keet Kids 5K Community Color Run celebrates a year of teamwork

Kera Jefferson and Cathie Healey are coaches for Keet Kids Run. Kaydyn is a second-grader who participant in the program (and who learned a lot about teamwork!). After a year of virtual get-togethers, they're meeting in person for the Keet Kids Run 5K Color Run (registration 9:30 a.m. Saturday, May 22, Crescent Harbor Shelter). All are invited.

Embouchure assured as top brass players return to form in holiday concert

Amy Sanchez, a french horn player and professor at the Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA, and Miami-based trumpeter Brian Neal join Sitka Fine Arts Camp director Roger Schmidt to discuss the Holiday Brass Concert (7 p.m. Saturday, May 29, Sitka Performing Arts Center). Schmidt has assembled an all-star roster of the nation's best brass players for the show, which will feature classics by American composers Aaron Copland and John Williams.

New exhibit recalls Sitka’s transformation from fishing village to mill town

The Sitka History Museum is opening an exhibit that takes a look at Sitka's history as a mill town, from roughly the end of WWII to 1993.

Pacific High School students graduate, celebrate during in-person ceremony

In a step toward the future (and a step toward normal), 10 Pacific High School seniors graduated Saturday afternoon in Sitka (5-15-21) in an in-person ceremony.

May 17-21 is Bike to Work Week in Sitka

May is National Bike Month, and Bike to Work Week begins May 17 in Sitka. Cathie Healey is our local spokesperson. She's been a bike commuter all over the world, in her work for the Peace Corps (and now Americorps). Doug Osborne is with the Sitka Cycling Club (formerly the Sitka Bike Friendly Community Coalition).