Seiner Troy Newark mends his net in preparation for the upcoming salmon season. Seiners, trollers, and gillnetters are already taking turns in Sitka Sound in various pre-season hatchery openings. The main event for most salmon fishermen happens in July and beyond. Seiners will land millions of pink salmon -- aka "humpies" -- by summer's end.
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Sampson Tug & Barge planning a return to SE market. Sen. Lisa Murkowski breaks silence on former staffer's new role as lobbyist. Sitka author brings childhood superhero to life in novel Anstice.
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This week’s castaway is Wren Droege, Raven Radio’s summer Programming Intern. Wren...
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Sitka resident and outdoorsman Hugh Bevan captured this image of a large brownie enjoying one of the delights of spring -- a hearty back-scratching -- with a remote trailcam. This bear was photographed in an area about 10 miles north of Sitka on April 22. It is one of four large bears the trailcam snapped over a 5-week period, suggesting an unusual density of males. Bevan retrieved this camera on May 28 "because I was getting jumpy about going in there to check it."
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Cindy Gibson, with the Sitka Summer Music Festival, and Greater Sitka Arts Council staff Jeff Budd and Abigail Carney discuss plans for 'Salmon in the Trees,' an art installation in Sitka National Historical Park which will be mounted on Wed Jun 19. Artists should submit completed salmon by Jun 15. Blank salmon are $25 at Baranof Island Artists Gallery or Waddell & Reed.
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Body of Santa Fe, NM, man recovered from Petersburg float plane crash site. Audio postcard: Violinist Gil Morgenstern finds inspiration in Sitka. Contractors perform repair work on state capitol. Int. Sec. Jewell responds to senate questions on arctic oil.
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The Sitka Summer Music Festival officially kicks off on Friday. KCAW’s Erik Neumann caught up with violinist Gil Morgenstern, one of the musicians, to hear about his thoughts on music and his visit to Sitka so far.
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Classical guitarist David Leisner began playing in the world of folk and choral music, and embraced classical music later. "It completes me," he said. Leisner is performing this Friday and Saturday (June 7 & 8, 7:30 PM, Harrigan Centennial Hall, $20/15 Old Harbor Books, online, or at the door) at the Sitka Summer Music Festival.
Redoubt landslide a boon to sockeye? One dead in Petersburg flightseeing crash. Honorary Filipino Consul appointed in Juneau.
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The US Forest Service believes fish populations in Redoubt Lake near Sitka survived last month’s devasting landslide unharmed, and may even benefit from the event. The massive avalanche piled up debris over twenty-feet thick across the the lake’s inlet stream, completely destroying a nearby recreational cabin whose occupants escaped in the nick of time. A watershed team recently surveyed the area and concluded that the lake’s sockeye run was likely unaffected. A new lake forming above the slide may improve habitat.
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