Getting healthy fruits and vegetables can be difficult anywhere, but especially here in Alaska where it costs more and sits on store shelves for longer. The Sitka farmer's market recently added a new matching program where low-income shoppers can double the value of their food purchases and buy twice as much healthy food.
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Sitka Fellow Christian Ervin is and architect and "interaction designer." He's interested in breaking the metaphor of the book in web design, and in looking for new ways to interact with our spaces. He's in Sitka for a seven-week residency, along with six other creative people under 30 in the Sitka Fellows program. With KCAW's Holly Keen.
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Assembly first considers, then drops Rob Allen for administrator short list. Record-setting pink salmon run expected this year. Dungeness crabbers to have full fall season after ADF&G reviews early harvests. Computer failure delays check-ins for Alaska Airlines and others.
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The Sitka assembly was hoping to have narrowed its list to three finalists for city administrator by this time in the hiring process, but instead has four. Only one of the finalists, Mark Gorman, is local. A debate over whether another local candidate, Rob Allen, should be added to the finalists list pushed a Wednesday afternoon (8-7-13) meeting into the late evening.
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Proposed 'management team' defends its plans during administrator semi-finalist interviews. Assembly advances Gorman, Caskie, Gubatayao, and Pascale to final interview round. Sen. Begich visits Anchorage, Galena this week.
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Following a second round of interviews yesterday afternoon and evening, the Sitka Assembly decided to invite former SEARHC vice-president Mark Gorman, Pamela Caskie, Jim Pascale, and Cynthia Gubatayao to advance to a final round of in-person interviews. Gorman was selected by five of the seven assembly members for further consideration. Caskie, Pascale, and Gubatayao were each selected by four members.
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Two administrator candidates who have proposed managing Sitka as a team offered a rigorous defense of their idea Tuesday afternoon (8-6-13). Rob Allen and Robin Sherman -- a husband-and-wife duo with close ties to Sitka -- were interviewed by the Assembly, along with four other individual candidates. Four more semi-finalists were scheduled for interviews this evening. (Note: Following the second round of semi-finalist interviews, the assembly narrowed its short list to four candidates. See related story.)
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Maybelle Filler, with the Sitka Women's Golf League, and Sarah Blue outline plans for a co-ed golf tournament, auction, and balloon launch on Sun Aug 18 at the Sea Mountain Golf Course. The event is a fundraiser for the Sitka Cancer Survivors and Sitka Community Hospital Diabetes program.
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Assembly conducts videoconference interviews with administrator semi-finalists. Keku Cannery in Kake named to list of endangered historic sites. Yakutat cold-case murder trial postponed after new evidence is discovered. Ketchikan residents capture injured eagle.
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In June, the Keku Cannery in Kake was named one of the 11 most endangered historic places in the country by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The building is an artifact of Alaska’s salmon canning industry and its a reminder of the different people that worked there.
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