With a week of training under her belt, KCAW's graduate news intern Rachel Waldholz is air-ready. Waldholz (who, by the way, pronounces her last name with a "t" sound at the end, "Wald-holts") just completed her first year at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. Before J-school, Waldholz worked at the High Country News on the Western Slope of Colorado, and at the Tremont Tribune in the Bronx.
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A former Alaskan is one of five finalists for the 2012 Outside Magazine Outdoor Adventure grant. Quinn Langbauer is a 2007 Sitka High graduate. If he wins, he and his brother and a friend from college will spend most of next...
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Assembly to consider raising limit on taxable sales, when it meets in regular session tonight. Michelle Putz submits letter of interest for assembly appointment, joins Jack Ozment and Bill Paden. 2007 Sitka High graduate's "Bicycling Across Siberia" a finalist in Outside Magazine Adventure contest. Angoon dancers close Celebration 2012.
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Sitka gardener Judy Johnstone, and Local Foods Network president Kerry MacLane discuss the arrival of the first USDA-funded high tunnel in Sitka. The simple greenhouses are subsidized through a program of the Natural Resources Conservation Service.
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North Pacific Council votes to reduce halibut bycatch by 15-percent. Coast Guard Air Station Sitka begins installation of wood pellet heating system. Univ. of Pennsylvania moves DNA research effort to Juneau's Celebration 2012. Fishing industry group raises money to rebuild Japanese seafood market.
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Corrie Bosman and Andrea Thomas discuss Yoga Union's relocation to the Kellog Building on the SJ Campus, and an open house planned for this Sunday (6-10-12).
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Skipper charged with reckless endangerment after grounding troller. KCAW interview: Gov. Parnell on oil tax reform, infrastructure repair. Fifteen troopers graduate from Academy after doing "more pushups than can be calculated." Gov. Parnell signs bill creating revolving loan fund for shellfish farms.
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On Thursday (6-7-12), the Sheet'ka Kwaán Naa Kahídi echoed with the footsteps of fifteen newly minted graduates of the Department of Public Safety's Training Academy, who marched in singing, "This life was made for me." Besides their certificates, Alaska's newest public safety officers received their badges.
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A Sitka fisherman is facing charges of reckless endangerment after running his boat aground in Sitka’s Eastern Channel Wednesday evening (6-6-12). 52-year-old William A. Walder was arrested by Sitka police officers at the scene after refusing to comply with rescue personnel to leave his troller “Yankee,” as the boat listed on the rocks near Error Island. He was also charged with boating under the influence.
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Paul Cox is the Artistic Advisor to Sitka Fest!, an idea he and Sitka Fine Arts Camp director Roger Schmidt conceived growing up in Sitka together. Sitka Fest! unites under one banner many of the arts and culture activities in Sitka in July and August.
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