The Sitka High Mock Trial team took second-place in the statewide Mock Trial competition in Anchorage last weekend, falling to giant West Anchorage High. Coach Howard Wayne says his team -- which has three foreign exchange students -- won verdicts in nearly every trial.
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A fire destroyed over a million king and coho eggs at Crystal Lake Hatchery south of Petersburg. Oceanographers will visit Sitka to give a presentation on radiation from the Fukushima disaster. Congressman Darrell Issa launches another attack on Alaska's Bypass Mail system. The House Finance Committee approved a bill allowing village public safety officers to carry a firearm while on duty.
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Emma Bruhl, a senior member of the Fireweed Dance Theatre, discusses the company's performance this Saturday, March 8 (7PM, Sitka Performing Arts Center, $15/10 available from dancers or at the door).
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Two preeminent oceanographers will be in Sitka for the month of March. Jackie Grebmeier and Lee Cooper will be catching up on their writing, visiting classrooms, and mingling with the public -- basically, enjoying the novelty of staying in one place for a solid month.
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Oceanographers Jackie Grebmeier and Lee Cooper, and Sitka Sound Science Center residency director Tory O'Connell, discuss the couple's research, and their plans for their month-long residency in Sitka. Cooper is a chemical oceanographer; Grebmeier is a biological oceanographer who studies systems. They've been working in Alaska for nearly three decades. For more information about the Scientist in Residency Fellowship, visit the Sitka Sound Science Center online.
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Schmidt to Chamber: Arts can shape Sitka's economic future. State officials propose removing humpback whales from Endangered list; biologists disagree. Transportation infrastructure fund gains some traction in state house.
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The Sitka Fine Arts Camp has broken the $2-million mark in annual revenues. Director Roger Schmidt told the Sitka Chamber of Commerce last week that business at the camp had grown by a factor of 32, since he was named to the post in 2000. The budget that year, Schmidt said, was $70,000.
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The investigation began in October of last year after two dogs died from consuming a toxic substance in the vicinity of Sitka’s Sea Mountain Golf Course. 31-year old Kevin Taranoff was sentenced to one month in jail, to pay $1,000 in fines, and to serve two years of probation.
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The Orthodox Dioceses of Sitka and Alaska installed David Mahaffey as its 16th Bishop, early this month (2-23-14). A historic and ornate ceremony ensued in Sitka, attracting Orthodox Bishops from New York to Quebec. On the steps of St. Michael’s Cathedral, Native elders welcomed Metropolitan Tikhon, the head of the Orthodox Church in America with the traditional bread and salt.
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