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Let the Good Times Roll!

There are a million ways to have fun with Raven Radio, but we need members like you to make that fun happen! Please pitch in and make a contribution today to your membership-powered radio station-- and let the good times roll! http://bit.ly/1kaYZiU

New members welcome!

In this photo from 2008 Morning Edition Host Melissa Marconi Wentzel brings her newborn boy Caellum into KCAW for the first time. Every single person that loves and supports Raven Radio was at some point...not yet a member. Is that YOU? Please join your friends and neighbors to keep us flying strong and contribute whatever amount is comfortable right now. Thank you!

21 artists open Sitka museum gala (but not Warhol!)

The Sitka Historical Museum opens its first exhibit at 6 PM this evening (4-10-14), under the leadership of new director, Hal Spackman. The Past Inspires the Present will run through May 31st. The show features the work of 21 contemporary Sitka artists alongside historic pieces in the museum collection which served as inspiration. The late Andy Warhol, however, didn't make the cut.

Conservation can ease Thursday night’s planned outage

Large parts of Sitka will be without power for most of the night Thursday (4-10-14) -- or not, depending on what actions residents take to conserve electricity. The Sitka Electric Department is installing the switches and transformers needed to operate a new backup generator. But, as KCAW’s Robert Woolsey reports, the Department has a trick up its sleeve that will keep the electricity on at most homes, as long as we power off our big appliances.

Let’s bear down!

Could you bear life without Raven Radio? There are almost 200 of you that haven't yet renewed your membership to Raven Radio since last spring, which leaves us about $15,000 short of our goal. There is simply no stopping until we get there. So if you haven't pitched in yet, please do so now or if you prefer, call the station during business hours at 747-5877. Thanks to you and to everyone who has contributed and thanks for the photo go to Richard Nelson, host of Encounters heard on Sunday mornings at 10:30.

Sitka, Mt. Edgecumbe students excel at state science fair

UAS associate professor Kitty LaBounty and Mt. Edgecumbe students Terrell Jones (Sr-Deering) and Shanelle Afcan (Sr-Nunam Iqua), and Sitka High's Misha Bekeris, discuss the projects they presented at the Alaska Science and Engineering Fair. Bekeris's project on nutrient fluxes in the Indian River was a finalist for the Grand Prize. The public can view the projects Monday evening, April 28, at UAS Sitka.

Heat, hydration, and the ‘occupational athlete’

Brent Ruby, PhD, a noted exercise physiologist from the lower 48 has been in Alaska this week updating health professionals on the latest research on hydration and heat stress. He’s also been taking a look at what he calls “occupational athletes,” like commercial fishermen, and trying to find ways his research can apply to their work.

Mentoring program for new gardeners

Linda Wilson, with the Sitka Local Foods Network, discusses a mentoring program for first-time gardeners. For more information, visit the SLFN online.

Tue Apr 8, 2014

Sitka Assembly to take final vote tightening anti-smoking ordinance. Senate Finance Committee releases budget; includes $3.3-million for Harrigan remodel. This is not your father's shop class. Petersburg family takes the stage at Juneau FolkFest.

Where no shop class has gone before

This is not your grandfather’s shop class. Late last month a group of high school and college shop teachers and a few of their students gathered for a three-day workshop in Sitka’s state-of-the-art Design and Fabrication Lab. The use of 3D printers and other computer-controlled equipment has revolutionized shop, and turned one of the most remote classrooms in the building into the coolest place in school.