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Herring spawn map, Apr 2, 2012

The Alaska Department of Fish & Game mapped 17.4 nautical miles of active herring spawn during aerial surveys on Monday April 2, 2012.

Mt. Edgecumbe’s Yupik dancers tour Netherlands, Paris

Cecelia Chikigak (Sr-Alakanuk), Baxter Bond (Sr-Tununak), and Corey Meyers (Sr-Pilot Station) discuss their recent visit with five other dancers to Den Bosch, Netherlands, and to Paris. With Michael Dempster, Yupik Dance coordinator.SHS Track coach Chloe Copeland (and Phoebe Snow) talks about this Thursday's Bridge-a-thon fundraiser from 4:30 - 5:30 PM (to pledge, call the high school at 747-3263), and the annual Toilet Paper Fun Run (a door-to-door fundraiser) on Tue Apr 17.

Tue Apr 3, 2012

Herring seiners work for over five hours in second opener on Monday. Sitka Tribe, Sealaska sign deal for management of sacred sites near Sitka. Fairbanks resident faces charges for submitting fraudulent signatures for Coast Zone Management initiative. Senate bill would allow judges to consider FASD in sentencing defendants.

Jake Schumacher: Still (music) crazy after all these years

Whenever anyone with the slightest music sensibility enters Raven Radio for the first time, the first thing he or she comments on is invariably our huge music library. Our huge, organized music library, that is. The color-coding scheme was the brainchild (or lovechild?) of Jake Schumacher, Raven Radio's Music and Operations Director from before sign-on in 1981 to 1985, and Program Director until 1994.

Second Herring Opening at 11:30am today

The second Sitka Sound sac roe herring opening will be at 11:30 this morning in the same area as the first opening, in the northwest portion of Sitka Sound including Hayward Strait, Promisla Bay, and parts of Eastern Bay.

Herring spawn map, April 1, 2012

ADF&G released this map of active herring spawn in Sitka Sound after conducting aerial surveys on Sunday April 1, 2012.

Support group to address grief at any stage

Beverly Rivard is a grief counselor and social worker at the Bill Brady Healing Center. She and Willow Moore, director of Braveheart Volunteers, discuss a grief support group which will begin on Mon Apr 16 at 6 PM in the Pioneer Home Manager's House. Rivard says grief does not necessarily begin at the loss of a loved-one, and may manifest itself in various ways throughout your life.

Mon Apr 2, 2012

First herring opener nets 4,700 tons; no fishing on Sunday. Clan conference wraps up in Sitka. Fish & Wildlife seeks public input on rules for use of Native-harvested sea otter pelts. Sens. Begich, Cantwell ask Obama to step-up response to approaching tsunami debris.

In safe hands

Members of the Alaska Department of Public Safety released eagles at the Alaska Raptor Center in Sitka on Saturday (3-31-12) in honor of the governor's "Choose Respect" initiative. An audience of around 100 gathered on the center's boardwalk trail to watch the four birds return to the wild.

Teacher hoopapalooza

Sitka High and Mt. Edgecumbe faculty basketball teams outlived the clock Friday night (3-30-12) in a benefit game at the BJ McGillis gym. Students from the two schools have partnered in an effort to raise $60,000 for a girls' school in Afghanistan. Mt. Edgecumbe student Annaliese Moll said she didn't know how much this event raised, "but the cash box is overflowing!"