Former Sheldon Jackson Museum curator Rosemary Carlton and artist Sarah Williams discuss the 25th Anniversary celebration of the museum's Native Artist Demonstration Program, 5-8 PM Saturday January 26, 2013.
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Improvements to downtown Sitka have been discussed before, usually in the context of cruise ship tourism. But cruise tourism has been on a ten-year decline in Sitka, and the conversation about downtown revitalization this time may have more to do with community than commerce. Retailer Melissa Danville and landscape architect Monique Anderson are both involved in Revitalize Sitka.
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School board reviews safety procedures in wake of Newtown shootings. Renewable Energy Alaska Project aiming to make state 15-percent more energy efficient by 2020. State Labor Commissioner says hers is the "department of opportunity."
Russian pianist Alexander Tutunov is the father of 8-month old twin girls. Teaching and performing in Sitka this weekend, by comparison, is a vacation.
Transportation Commissioner Pat Kemp has apologized for keeping the Marine Highway Advisory Board out of the loop on the Alaska Class Ferry.
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Assembly to begin hiring process for new municipal attorney. Sitka program provides "host homes" for youth with nowhere to go. World Trade Center luncheon in Juneau offers two views of economic future.
It’s no secret that energy is getting more expensive. That’s especially true in big commercial and public buildings. Estimates put the state’s utility bill for public buildings and schools at about $642 million a year.
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Sitka High DDF team members Ryan Apathy (Jr) and Celia Lubin (Soph) talk about the team's performance in Ketchikan last weekend, and about their defense of their state title in Anchorage next month.
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Assembly agrees to bond for $40-million for additional Blue Lake funding; advances 15-percent hike in electric rates. SEARHC buys Sitka Medical Center, no changes in services planned. Court sentences two domestic violence offenders to serve 4, 5 years respectively.
Sitka’s last remaining private medical clinic has been sold. Sitka Medical Center announced on Monday (1-21-13) that it had finalized the sale of its operations to the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium, or SEARHC. Representatives on both sides of the transaction say the sale means no visible changes in staff, and no planned changes in care, for patients of either organization.
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