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Thu Apr 18, 2013

School board plans to spend two-thirds of its reserves to make ends meet next year, plus cuts to Community Schools, middle-school shop program. Petersburg's longest-serving firefighter dies.

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Audio postcard: Ninja captures mooing rhinos

Alexis Will, a graduate student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, calls herself a “Ninja of the Night,” but it has nothing to do with martial arts. Will is a biologist who studies the foraging behavior of the Rhinoceros Auklet, a sea bird which returns to land only once every twenty-four hours, during Alaska’s short summer nights.

New T-Shirts are here!

We now have the new t-shirts in at the Raven Radio retail shop! They come in unisex and women's cuts and sizes. The unisex shirts come in black with white screen printing, or grey with black screen printing. The women's come in black and white. Stop by the retail shop and pick one up!

Wed Apr 17, 2013

Assembly gives administrator "unsatisfactory" evaluation. Lloyd Hames will be remembered as much more than a grocer. Importance of obstetrics program in rural medicine, part 2 of 2. Southeast representatives add $13.5 million in area projects to state's capital budget.

Sitka OB program: All about community, commitment

There were many reasons that Sitka Community Hospital closed its obstetrics program in 2009, and a number of factors and people involved in its re-opening two years later. In part two of our series on the importance of obstetrics in rural medicine, we talk with a physician whose commitment to a full-spectrum family practice has made a big difference to Sitka’s local hospital.

Wolves Baseball opens 3-0 on new turf

Juniors Brian Way and Erickson Fish discuss their three-straight wins on opening weekend, on the improved Moller Park playing surface. The Sitka Wolves will have a three-game series this weekend against Ketchikan and Anchorage South high schools.

Lloyd Hames 1927-2013: Opportunity meets acumen

Although he built one of the most successful businesses in Southeast Alaska, Lloyd Hames will be remembered for putting community first. Roger Hames, the current CEO of Hames Corporation, is writing a eulogy for his father which he plans to deliver this Saturday. The message is simple: If you think Lloyd Hames was just a grocer – think again.