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Tue Aug 20, 2013

SEARHC's Front Street Clinic in Juneau may close. Firefighters battle asphalt plant blaze. Wrangell culture camp helps preserve Tlingit language.

Mental health first aid training offered

https://www.kcaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/interview_081913.mp3 Listen to iFriendly audio. Mark White, a behavioral health clinician at Raven’s Way, says mental health first aid is valuable for just about anyone. Most...

Mon Aug 19, 2013

Sitka Mountain Rescue assists two hikers stranded in the fog on Lucky Chance Ridge. Sitka Schools superintendent Steve Bradshaw resigns effective June '14. Petersburg wins family-friendly award from SF advocacy group. Warm weather creates "marine band" blanketing parts of Southeast.

Bradshaw to leave Sitka schools in ’14

Sitka schools superintendent Steve Bradshaw is resigning. Bradshaw turned in his letter to the Sitka School Board at their regular meeting Thursday evening (8-15-13). His resignation will be effective at the end of the coming school year, on June 30, 2014.

KCAW news intern, friend rescued from foggy ridge

Sitka Mountain Rescue led a pair of fog-bound hikers off of Lucky Chance Ridge early Friday morning (8-16-13). Erik Neumann and Lacey Carnahan had spent Wednesday night at Salmon Lake Cabin, about 10 miles south of Sitka, and were planning to hike all day Thursday over the Lucky Chance Ridge to a kayak they had left in Silver Bay near the Green Lake powerhouse. Neumann spent ten weeks in Sitka this summer as the KCAW news intern.

Foggy farewell

An unbelievable streak of beautiful summer weather came to an abrupt end Thursday evening...

Fri Aug 16, 2013

Coast Guard detects oil leak from sunken tender southwest of Petersburg. Playwright "pulls back curtain" on Alaska public radio. A pair of Ketchikan bald eagles recovering in Sitka from mystery ailment. ADF&G asks Fairbanks bird hunters to hold off for two weeks.

Playwright ‘pulls back curtain’ of Alaska public radio

A playwright is spending the summer working on a project that could be of interest -- literally -- to everyone listening right now. Sarah DeLappe is melding the experiences of her sister at KNOM in Nome, with interviews at KCAW in Sitka, to write a play about a public radio station in Alaska.

Moran: Finding connections between art, politics, philosophy

Brooklyn-based Jarrett Moran is the editor-in-chief of Artlog, and a rising art critic in a profession dominated by typically older practitioners. He's interested in the connection between philosophy, politics, and art. He's one of seven residents in this year's Sitka Fellows program.

Thu Aug 15, 2013

"Deadliest Catch" skipper rescues crew of stricken seiner off coast of Prince of Wales Island. Assembly allows South Benchlands sale to move forward, trusts developer to create affordability. Trees and trails prompt assembly questions.