NOAA Fisheries calls it "low-tide-oblique aerial imagery," but for the rest of us it's a chance to fly with with shorebirds. The Shorezone Partnership is now completed for the entire Southeast Alaska coast, from Dixon Entrance to Yakutat. Internet users around the world can "fly" the coast via over 1-million video captures, or download 178,000 high-resolution images.
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Blatchley Middle School Jazz performers Kaysia Whitmill and Miles Chadwick join music director Mike Kernin to discuss this Sunday's (2-12-12) Valentine Brunch in the Sitka High Commons. Brunch will be served 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM, $15 for 12 and over, $10 for ages 6-11, and free for 5 and under. Music provided by the BMS Jazz Band. A fundraiser for the band's annual trip to the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival.
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Sitka Fine Arts Camp makes "short list" for national arts grant program. Proposed legislation will encourage feds to allow more sea otter harvest. Portland's Vigor Industrial buys Alaska Ship & Drydock in Ketchikan.
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Here’s the DRAFT schedule for Raven Radio’s 30th Anniversary celebration from June...
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https://www.kcaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/interview_020712.mp3 Click here for iFriendly audio. Sitka sophomores Brian Way and Kendrick Payton say their team took two hard losses in Barrow, but managed to beat last...
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Shooting range accident claims the life of Sitka man. Tony DelMoral's daughters remember "cool," devoted dad. Board of Fish votes to keep flexible, weather-dependent start date for crab fisheries. Rep. Thomas sponsors legislation recognizing veterans' professional training.
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A new article in the journal "Bioscience" this month describes what many foresters have suspected for some time: The century-old decline of Southeast Alaska's yellow cedar forests is attributable to climate change. Decreasing snow cover over the decades has left fine root structures vulnerable to freezing, eventually killing the trees. Stanford doctoral candidate Lauren Oakes, who took this picture on Chichagof Island, is among a new generation of researchers looking at possible management alternatives for the dead forests, which represent both valuable habitat and a marketable timber supply.
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Tracy Gagnon and Beth Short-Rhoades, with the Sitka Conservation Society's Fish-in-Schools project, discuss the addition of Pacific High to the program. Grace Gjertsen (3rd grade), Zofia Danielson (6th grade), and Sienna Reid (7th grade) talk about why they like locally-caught fish, and describe the valentines they'll share with fishermen at a special lunch this Wednesday (2-8-12).
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https://www.kcaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/news_020612.mp3 Click here for iFriendly audio. ASRC’s purchase of McGraw Construction signals heightened interest in Sitka’s capital projects? Juneau debates retaining...
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Proving without a doubt that teachers "can do," Sitka Schools music directors Mike Kernin (Blatchley Middle School) and John DePalatis (Sitka High) open the Saturday night (2-4-12) concert of the Sitka Jazz Festival. The pair jammed with Ed Littlefield on drums, Peter Apathy on bass, and Bob Athayde on piano.
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