Koutchak accepts attorney job at $112,000/yr. Assembly approves 15-percent hike in electrical rates, among other energy decisions. Quarry-lease agreement with S&S trades rock for debt payments. SE utility managers work on regional collaboration. Rural communities look to broader energy solutions.
Coach Archie Young and Mt. Edgecumbe Braves basketball players Vance Gregory (Galena) and Leo Ford (Hooper Bay) say they're working on team quickness to counterbalance their size disadvantage in the last three weeks of the regular season. Sitka Lady Wolves players Sophie Mudry (jr.) and Kendall Phippen (jr.) say they're trying to stay healthy as the team heads out on its last road trip before the regional tourney.
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NPR investigative reporter Daniel Zwerdling's three-part series on sustainable seafood began airing during All Things Considered on Monday evening, February 12, 2013. Because of this story's unusual length (22 minutes), KCAW's automation system interrupted the broadcast with routine programming announcements. Please accept our apologies for this glitch. Listen to all three stories in the series, uninterrupted, here.
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Levi Eggerton is hoping to start the first Alaska chapter of the Mule Deer and Blacktail Foundation in Sitka. The Foundation will be holding a banquet this Saturday (5PM Sat Feb 16, Harrigan Centennial Hall, tickets $60 ea./or $85 per couple). Eggerton, along with the Sitka Conservation Society's Scott Harris, discuss the project.
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Troopers decline to name cause of death in homicide of Kake 13-year-old. Assembly meets over weekend, offers municipal attorney job to Wasilla lawyer. Speaker's office accidently distributes "crock of s--t" reply to Valdez LNG proposal. Yakutat to explore wave-energy converters.
The FDA is considering approving genetically engineered, or GE, salmon to be sold in the U.S. It has sparked renewed protests by opponents of genetically modified organisms, or GMO’s. Sen. Mark Begich on Thursday introduced two bills in the US Senate that would ban these new salmon. Sitka held a demonstration at Crescent Harbor on Saturday.
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Alaska State Troopers will not make public any information from the autopsy of a 13-year-old girl killed last week in Kake.
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Sitka Trailworks executive director Deb Lyons discusses the recent conclusion of work on the newest part of the Cross Trail, and the organization's plans this spring for development on the causeway.
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Sitkans rally to oppose genetically-modified salmon. School board, assembly consider possibility of self-insuring. Forest Service launches 5-year review of TLMP. Senate Finance Committee takes 2-hours of testimony on cruise ship wastewater.
Amanda Taylor arrived in Sitka from Minnesota as an Americorp Volunteer. She immediately felt a connection with the community the fit right in working at Braveheart...so she stayed! We're lucky to have Amanda in the community and we all got to know her a little better when she agreed to share her wishlist if she was shipwrecked on a "dessert-ed" island with only ten songs and one dessert to fill her days.
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