Students in Sarah Eddy's first grade class at Baranof Elementary enjoy ice cream and the miniature Lego amusement park in the window of Harry Race Pharmacy and Soda Fountain in downtown Sitka. Of special interest? A tiny rock guitar player modeled after Baranof PE teacher Joe Montagna, or "Mr. Joe."
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Daily Sitka Sentinel sports editor Klas Stolpe attended the Region V Wrestling tourney in Juneau over the weekend and reports Mt. Edgecumbe High School and Sitka High will be represented at the state meet this weekend -- by both girls and boys. With KCAW's Robert Woolsey.
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Andrea Thomas is the Patient Health Benefits Manager at SEARHC. She and her staff are available to help anyone enroll in Medicaid or other health plans available in the ACA Marketplace. The deadline to enroll this year is December 15. Depending on your age and income level, you could have a premium as low as $1 per month.
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Sitka Community Theater producer Shannon Haugland says her organization is gearing up for '9 to 5: Music by Dolly Parton!' which will be staged in March. Auditions are 2 p.m. on Sunday, December 16th and 6 p.m. on Monday, December 17th at the Rasumuson Center on the Sitka Fine Arts Campus. All newcomers welcome!
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Charles Bingham, with the Sitka Local Foods Network, and Hope Merritt, 2018 winner of the "Sitka Food Business Innovation" contest, discuss this year's event. Merritt founded Gimbal Botanicals, which supplies teas and other products made from the terrestrial and maritime plants of Southeast Alaska.
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Klas Stolpe with the Daily Sitka Sentinel talks with Sitka resident Keith Perkins about riding out Friday's earthquake in Anchorage. The sports official had a meeting in Anchorage as part of the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame selection committee
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Bretz will play seasonal Advent music on the church's historic 1844 Kessler Organ. She said each organ has a unique sound and personality and called the organ at the Lutheran Church sweet, quiet and a pleasure to play.
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Live video coverage of this morning's (11-30-18) earthquake in Anchorage, courtesy KTVA and 360 North.
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A magnitude 7.2 earthquake located approximately 30 miles southwest of Palmer at 8:28 am this morning (Friday, November 30, 2018) prompted authorities to issue a Tsunami Warning for the coastal areas of Cook Inlet and the Southern Kenai Peninsula. The warning was CANCELLED as of 10:00 am. Coastal Southeast Alaska was not included in the tsunami warning area.
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For the crews of Coast Guard Air Station Sitka, it's not all about maritime hoists and landing on mountain ridges. Here a helicopter aircrew practices landing on the fantail of the Coast Guard icebreaker Healy on Southeast Alaskan waters November 24, 2018. Maintaining proficiency in deck-landings on ships at sea is an important part of the training at Air Station Sitka.
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