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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Parnell tells Sitka Chamber that he's committed to creating economic opportunity. Sitka Assembly kills proposed changes to senior tax exemption; tax cap increase lives on. Sealaska fighting back against term limits measure.
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Gov. Sean Parnell says he’d rather give communities like Sitka a fishing pole than a “bunch of fish.” The governor’s twist on the old adage came during his remarks to the Sitka Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday (6-6-12). The Sitka audience was interested in everything from melting permafrost, to the in-state gasline, ferries, the EPA, and student loans. The governor appeared well-versed in all these issues, and may have found talking about them a relief from the issue that has polarized Juneau since January: Oil tax reform.
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While a slow-moving ship makes for slow-motion crash, the Matanuska's collision with the Ocean Beauty plant in Petersburg on May 7 was enough to knock out processing operations for the summer. Tom Sunderland, vice-president of marketing for Ocean Beauty, told KFSK News recently that the plant will still offer support services for the salmon fishing fleet this summer. This video was shared on YouTube by a passenger on the ferry who witnessed the crash.
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Island Institute co-director Carolyn Servid describes this summer's roundtable conversation scheduled for July 18-20 in Sitka. "Resilient Communities: A Form of Creative Resistance," will involve 12 core participants -- including Sitkan Gordon Blue -- and thirty particpants in a three-day exchange of ideas.
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Ocean Beauty's Petersburg plant will not process salmon this summer, in wake of ferry crash. Sitka High Lady Wolves capture third-straight state softball crown. Cutter Maple restores "mischievous" Cape Edgecumbe buoy to service.
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Someone’s going to have to go up on a tall ladder in the Sitka High gym – again. The Sitka Lady Wolves softball team won their third-straight small schools state title last weekend – their fourth in eight years – which means it’s time for another banner to hang from the gym’s rafters.
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Vaughn holds on to win derby with 41.4-pound king. Smithsonian curators go into the field with Native artists. Twenty-three year old legislative candidate says he's "in it to win." Local Boundary Commission approves Petersburg borough petition, with modification.
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