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Radio Theatre auditions this week for December performance

A host of radio plays will begin production this week, including a Western, a Sherlock Holmes period piece, and four John Longenbaugh plays. Directors Megan Pasternak and Suzan Brawnlyn were joined by producer Shannon Haugland of the Greater Sitka Arts Council Community Theater to talk about the staging of stories with sound.

A Happy Alaska Day, from Georgian news team

For most of Sitka, last weekend’s Alaska Day celebration is a pleasant memory. But for Rich McClear, it's echo reverberated across the ocean.

Magic or therapy? Tarot a guide to the possible

Earlier this year Sitka had a tarot card reader in residence -- he read over seventy people’s cards in a downtown coffee shop. The Tarot, it turns out, is mystical -- but not magic. Like professional therapy, it's really about looking into a mirror, as KCAW’s resident tarot skeptic, Robert Woolsey, discovered.

As spree rolls on, police urge Sitkans to lock cars

Sitka police are advising residents to take more care in locking their cars, after a rash of recent break-ins.

Guha: Resident playwright reading “A Brief History of America” tonight

Dipika Guha, Island Institute artist-in-residence, is joined by director Peter Bradley to talk about her play, "A Brief History of America," in response to Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States," and thematic focus on historical events through the eyes of ordinary people.

Sitka’s Alaska Day: New audiences captivated by old magic

David Odette is a barnstorming magician participating in a one-man revival of historic magic. KCAW’s Robert Woolsey followed him to Baranof Elementary School to see how well very old illusions hold up with a very young audience -- and sent this audio postcard.

Brewton: Bad transformer ends Blue Lake’s hot streak

Hopes were dashed this week that the Blue Lake Hydro project would come online weeks ahead of schedule. Utility director Chris Brewton delivered the news that one of the step-up transformers -- which convert the 12,000 volts produced by the hydroelectric turbines to 69,000 volts for transmission into town -- is defective.

Dadburnit! Historic weapons ousted from Sitka airport

Sitka’s military past brushed elbows with present day security last Friday (10-10-14). At 11am, a TSA official called the police to report there was a man with a gun in the airport. but it wasn’t just any type of gun.

Brave Heart luncheon this afternoon on dementia and hearing loss

Shoshauna Schmidt of Brave Heart Volunteers joined Somer Dunn, an audiologist at SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC), to talk about how hearing loss impacts the experience of dementia.

Goodbye, hello: Assembly seats elex winners, greets newcomers

It was an evening of farewells and greetings in Sitka’s assembly chambers Tuesday night, as the reins of local government were transferred to the winners of last week’s municipal elections. It was also an occasion to greet newly-arrived permanent city hires, and welcome some enthusiastic, temporary residents.