Kimi Eisele is an artist, writer, and choreographer from Tuscon, Arizona. Eisele will be in Sitka for two months as a resident with the Island Institute, studying the significance of the yellow cedar tree and teaching compositional improvisation and shadow puppetry. Downloadable audio.
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Public education is under attack. The legislature continues to cut funding, while passing unfunded mandates, putting schools in a financially difficult position.
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Some priority focuses of mine are dealing with our students and our children who are struggling academically. We have children for whom it might be a single topic, or a subject -- or a multitude of things -- but school is not coming easy for them.
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Sitka Health Summit partners discuss the recently-completed MAPP (Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships) Community Health Assessment.Downloadable audio.
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Your next city assembly must face the fiscal challenges headon. As one of your assembly members, I will make each decision with the future health of our community foremost in my mind.
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MUG SHOT: News Director Robert Woolsey enjoys a hot beverage from our 2005 mug with art by Ray Peck. Make your pledge now to update your mug collection: http://bit.ly/02WEB-SupportKCAW
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Eric Van Cise spent 16 years patching people up as a flight medic and EMS instructor at SEARHC. Now, he’d like to help Sitka’s schools emerge healthy from the funding and political struggles ahead.
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My main concern is support for our businesses, in a framework of economic development. My interest in running for the assembly began with a focus on the schools and the hospital. These remain priorities.
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Orion Hughes-Knowles was born on the north shore of Oahu, but grew up in Sitka and graduated from Whitman College in 2010. He’s running for assembly for the second year in a row -- but this time for a regular seat rather than mayor.
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Members of the North Coast Winds Quintet discuss performing in Sitka and engaging Sitka's youth. Quintet performs, courtesy of Alaska Arts Southeast, on Saturday, Sept. 26th.Downloadable audio.
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