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Science center summer camps kick off this month

Kristina Tirman and Sarah Tobey join host, Brooke Schafer to discuss upcoming Sitka Sound Science Center summer programming. Listen here:

In Sitka, an impromptu memorial honors mass burial discovered at B.C. boarding school

A memorial of 215 feathers adorn the Sheldon Jackson campus lawn following the discovery of a mass grave at former B.C. residential school. The artist is anonymous.

Sitka Public Library isn’t ‘squidding’ around with octopus-themed events

It's officially summer at the Sitka Public Library that can only mean one thing... it's cephalopod season!

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.