Hunkering Down for many Sitkans means endless Netflix, but there is an alternative: KCAW's The Library Show is starting "Library BINGO." Five-in-a-row wins an Elizabeth Peratrovich coin. A "coverall" wins a giant Nutella cake baked by Library Show host Kari Sagel.
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Anxiety is a normal response to threat, as old as humankind itself. In an excerpt from an upcoming episode of Raven Radio's Health Chat, host Martha Pearson speaks with SEARHC psychiatrist S.R. Thorward about how to manage the very normal feelings of anxiety we're all experiencing around the coronavirus pandemic.
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Sitka Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins has partnered with a group of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs -- including Google executive Max Henderson -- to develop a new website, covidactnow.org. In a very short time, the site has influenced policy-makers across the country, as they impose stricter measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Sitka firefighters responded to a small fire in a home bathroom on Monday afternoon (3-23-20). Chief engineer Craig Warren says the firehall received the call at 4:35 P.M. on Monday that a wastebasket was on fire in the bathroom of an upstairs apartment on Edgecumbe Drive. By the time firefighters had arrived on scene, the homeowner had contained the fire with a chemical extinguisher.
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Last Sunday (3-22-20) the City of Sitka issued a strong recommendation that Sitkans "Shelter in Place." Similar recommendations -- and in some places, mandates -- are happening all over the country. KCAW's Katherine Rose spoke with municipal administrator John Leach, and asked him to clarify what "Shelter in Place" means at this time for Sitkans.
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Daily Sitka Sentinel Sports editor Garland Kennedy wraps up Region V Basketball and the Iditarod, and contemplates life with nothing but eSports! With KCAW's Robert Woolsey.
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Lindsay Worthington is a professor at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM. She and USGS geologist Maureen Walton are heading up a major project to study the undersea Queen Charlotte Fault system, which they call "The San Andreas of the Pacific." The fault, which is offshore of Southeast Alaska, has had more frequent and larger seismic events over recent decades than its California cousin.
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An archive of reporting from KCAW News and our partners on the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The first herring of the spring are beginning to arrive in Sitka Sound. Aerial surveys conducted by the Alaska Department of Fish & Game on Thursday (3-19-20) located a small school of herring near Olga Point. Herring predators, however, are already in place in force.
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Thursday, March 12, is the first day residents can respond to the US Census online. Sarah Peterson, Kari Sagel, and Margot O'Connell talk about what Sitkans can expect, and why it's a valuable tool for Southeast residents. The survey takes about 10 minutes, has only 10 questions, and asks for fewer details than the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend application.
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