During WWII, Libby Stortz's father was in the 89th Battalion when he and his fellow infantrymen in the Engineering Corps were among the first group of soldiers to liberate Nazi concentration camps. She talks about his memories and lessons learned from the past.
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Mountainside is expanding its suite of services to include both primary care and urgent care. The Sitka Assembly this week approved adding a modular building, which will allow the clinic to install three more exam rooms.
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According to police, the person entered the store shortly after 12 a.m. Wednesday (8-23-17), wielding a hatchet. He took cigarettes, a variety of merchandise, and cash from the register, and fled the scene on foot.
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Gas comes from out of town. Gas comes from oil, and oil is a finite resource. And so at some point this system’s going to change. It’s going to change fundamentally, because we don’t have enough oil to make it 500 years.
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Wimmer describes herself as an "absurdist" playwright in the mold of Samuel Beckett. This summer she's working on a play and a one-act opera.
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Boys Run and Coaching Boys into Men are two programs run by Sitkans Against Family Violence. Boys Run is looking for coaches in the community -- no running experience required!
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As part of the Sitka Seafood Festival, the Sitka Maritime Heritage Society is hosting a "wet and salty" scavenger hunt at the Japonski Island Boathouse on Friday, August 19 from 12 to 4 p.m.
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Hannah Brinkmann is a comic artist from Hamburg, Germany. She is one of six fellows in residence at the Sitka Fine Arts Camp, working on her graphic novel about her uncle.
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Change Your Latitude, the northernmost open-water swim event in the US, was held in Sitka last weekend (8-13-17). Over half of the 49 swimmers traveled to compete alongside Sitka’s hardiest athletes.
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Biologist Kristy Kroeker has returned to Sitka for a month of research. She’s conducting lab and field studies on the impacts of ocean acidification to kelp forest communities at high latitudes.
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