Sitka’s special election yesterday pushed the regular meeting of the Sitka Assembly to today. When the group meets tonight (5-29-25), it will grapple with two tourism-related questions.
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Voters in Sitka have rejected a ballot initiative to cap cruise tourism.
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Sitka Pride is active year-round, however, during Pride Month in June there is a full calendar of activities. Sitka Pride volunteers Willa Johnson and Mel Beadle share details.
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Sitka Fine Arts Camp's annual Jazz on the Waterfront event is coming up.
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Jeremy Plank and Teal West are active in the group Safeguard Sitka’s Future, which has organized opposition to Proposition 1. They believe that limiting cruise tourism will take a heavy toll on local businesses, and the...
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John Leach is Sitka's municipal administrator. He joined KCAW's Brooke Schafer for the morning interview to discuss the city's tourism plans for the upcoming summer season.
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My name is Doug Borland, and my wife and I are 30-year residents of Sitka. As long-time Sitka downtown business owners, our Russian American stores employ six full-time Sitkans and up to 12 including our summer temporary staff. Today I would like to express some concerns regarding the upcoming anti-cruise ship referendum vote.
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Larry Edwards and Klaudia Lecesse are the authors of Proposition 1, which would cap cruise visitors at 300,000, May-September. The two appeared on a KCAW Special Election Forum on May 20, 2025.
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Researcher and UAF Associate Research Professor Tyler Hennon and ALFA Policy Coordinator Lauren Howard joined KCAW to discuss a citizen scientist initiative, which provides fishermen with scientific instruments to monitor oceanographic parameters like temperature and salinity.
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The Sitka Sound Science Center has five students visiting this month from Windesheim University in the Netherlands.
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