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Wed Apr 16, 2014

Senate candidate Sullivan opposes healthcare reform, and not so keen on dolphins. Wrangell Medical Center gets makeover.

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An unlikely romance, ‘Parfumerie’ opens Friday

Sitka Community Theater producer Shannon Haugland, and performer Ira Snelling, discuss this weekend's opening of Parfumerie, a 1937 Hungarian play which is better known in its Hollywood adaptation You've Got Mail. Snelling plays George Horvath, a senior clerk who develops an unlikely romance with junior clerk Amalia, played by Rhiannon Guevin. Performances 7 PM April 18, 19, and 20. (Sitka Performing Arts Center, $10/8 in advance at Old Harbor Books.)

Tue Apr 15, 2014

Jury returns partial verdict in Yakutat cold case homicide. IFA chief updates Ketchikan chamber on summer ferry season. Legislature considers dropping controversial high school qualifying exam. New president named for Tlingit and Haida Central Council.

‘Power Hour’ extended at Hames

Isaac Patinkin, with the Hames Center, discusses Parent Power Hour and the climbing wall. For complete information, visit the Hames Center online.

Mon Apr 14, 2014

Sitka School Board says city's failure to fund schools to cap is noticed in Juneau. All-gear quota for chinook significantly larger this season. Juneau artist MK McNoughton explores keeping secrets.

Bringing down the house!

The live show from The Cable House was quite the party! Regal Cheese and The Lost Boys both put on excellent performances, and it was a great end to our One-Day Spring Drive. If you missed it you can listen to the whole show here.And if we missed YOU during our Spring Drive, it's not too late to become a member of your community radio station by clicking here: http://bit.ly/1qqaj dV. We're relying on you to make it to the goal!

Spawn on

After a week or so of relative quiet, the Alaska Department of Fish & Game observed nearly 3 miles of active herring spawn in Sitka Sound over the weekend. Area management biologist Dave Gordon reported spawning in Starrigavan, Mosquito Cove, Fred's Creek, Hayward Strait, and Salisbury Sound.

Is there more important funding than schools?

Should the state do more for schools when local governments -- like Sitka’s -- are not doing all they can? That was the question hanging over a joint work session between the Sitka School Board and Sitka Assembly Thursday night (4-10-14). The board presented a draft budget to the assembly with a modest increase in local support to schools -- less than $200,000 -- but also delivered a clear message that more was needed.

Sitka bear task force tackles ‘trash caches’

The Sitka Bear Task Force has organized work parties to tackle several bear caches -- the places around town where brown bears have been dragging garbage bags over the years, to sort through their loot undisturbed. Alaska Department of Fish & Game biologist Phil Mooney says cleaning up these so-called “trash caches” is no small job. “Over the years you’ll get some places where you’ll have 2 and 3 pickup loads of material that’s piled back in there,” he says.