Ketchikan artist and musician Ray Troll is a Guggenheim Fellow. His new book will be called "Cruising the Eternal Coastline." Troll will be performing with Sitka musicians under the name "The Ratfish Wranglers" 7 PM tonight (Fri 3-9-12) at the Sheet'ka Kwaán Naa Kahídi, talking about palenontology and ichthyology, and discussing his fishy art. It's reportedly "more fun than a bucket of eels."
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Show us the cuts: Assembly holds off on sales tax increases until it sees a draft budget. Board of Fisheries reconsiders Yakutat's Tsiu River allocation scheme. A Ketchikan man rescues a bear cub stuck in a jar. Tenakee Fire Department preps for tonight's annual ball.
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A Ketchikan man on Sunday rescued a small black bear cub, whose head was stuck in a plastic jar. After multiple attempts, Michael Schuler was able to release the bear cub. (Video courtesy Michael Shuler and KRBD)
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Linda Wilson is vice-president of the Sitka Local Foods Network. Her group is holding Let's Grow Sitka! this Sunday, March 11, from noon - 3 PM at the ANB Hall.
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School board hears parent concerns over notification of alleged school bus sexual assault; approves resolution supporting the statewide teaching of Native languages. The school board will meet again tonight (3-8-12) in a worksession to discuss possible budget cuts. Mayor recuses fellow assembly member from school funding deliberations, on grounds of bias. Sitka Republicans prefer Santorum for president.
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A Yakutat-area lodge-owner has lost a battle over salmon allocations, after it appeared that he had won. It’s just one of the conflicts between user groups that came before Alaska’s Board of Fisheries last week in Ketchikan.
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Juneau storyteller Ishmael Hope says his new “Strong Man” comic book is not a break...
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The Sitka assembly likely will hold off on passing any tax increases until it’s seen a draft of the 2013 budget. In discussion at the assembly table on Tuesday night (3-6-12), members informally agreed to give municipal administrator Jim Dinley time to hammer out a budget, before floating any ideas for possible cuts.
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Sitka Republicans bucked statewide trends yesterday (Tue 3-3-12) and put Rick Santorum on top of their presidential preference poll – by a large margin. The former senator from Pennsylvania took 42 votes to Mitt Romney’s 28. Trailing Romney by only one vote was Ron Paul with 27 votes. Newt Gingrich came in fourth with 19 votes.
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Coast Guard drops charges against 2010 helicopter crash survivor. USFS will re-evaluate the impact on deer habitat of seventeen Tongass timber sales. Board of Fisheries rejects a slate of proposals intended to increase sport and personal use access to salmon on the Taku River.
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