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Grant advances Kasaan longhouse repairs

A nearly-half-million-dollar grant will speed restoration of Alaska’s oldest Haida longhouse. The structure was first built 130 years ago.

Docent program to use local science knowledge

Ashley Bolwerk, with the Sitka Sound Science Center, discusses training opportunities for docents (and junior docents) at the center. Learn more about the Sitka Sound Science Center docent program online.

Thu Jan 9, 2014

Even in new building, Pacific High takes learning outside walls. Petersburg considers lawsuit to recover expense of challenging interim redistricting map. Committee explores options for changes to Petersburg senior sales tax exemption as population ages.

Even in new building, Pacific High learns outside walls

Sitka’s alternative high school has moved into a brand-new building, but the program the school has created doesn’t really depend on the right place to succeed. Pacific High co-principal Phil Burdick told the Sitka Chamber of Commerce this week (Wed 1-8-14) that the remodeled space was actually the product of the school’s core mission to give students ownership of their education -- a ten-year long homework assignment that has finally been turned in.

Wed Jan 8, 2014

he Sitka School Board approved spending to begin design on a huge new vocational building. A bar in Wrangell made the decision to go smoke-free. The Sealaska Heritage Institute is offering school scholarships to shareholders and lineal descendants. The Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star stood down from a rescue mission in Antarctica. Carolers gathered in Sitka for a "Russian Christmas" tradition.

SHS Lady Wolves ready for conference play

Sitka High Lady Wolves team members Sophie Mudry and Isa Ramil discuss the girls' basketball season. This interview was recorded on December 31, 2013.

School board greenlights new votech building

If all goes well, a year from now school district officials in Sitka will cut the ribbon on huge new vocational education building. The Sitka School Board last night (Tue 1-7-14) approved spending $135,000 to begin design of an unusual project at the high school.

Starring: A Russian Orthodox Christmas tradition

It's Christmas today(1-7-14) in Russia, and for many Orthodox Sitkans. Russian Christmas is celebrated according to the old Julian calendar on January 7th, and in Sitka that tradition is audible. The week-long Feast of the Nativity celebration features a nativity "starring" - the Orthodox practice of caroling. Traditionally, revelers would stay out singing until dawn, sometimes for several days in a row.

Pacific High: A (new) century of education in downtown Sitka

Sitka’s Pacific High School students returned from winter break today (1-7-14), to find one last holiday gift: a new school. For the past two years, Pacific High has been housed in the Southeast Alaska Career Center, while the Lincoln Street building was remodeled from the ground up. The state-of-the-art facility has been over a century in the making.

Breaking the new American class system

Shannon Haugland, with the Sitka Film Society, discusses this Friday's screening of Inequality for All, a documentary featuring former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. (5:30 PM Fri Jan 10, Coliseum Theater downtown, tickets $8 in advance at Old Harbor Books)