Author: KCAW News

Tue Jan 24, 2012

https://www.kcaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/news_012412.mp3 Click here for iFriendly audio. Assembly to consider revising tax code, Pacific High designs, at its regular meeting tonight. Colleagues mourn loss of long-time...

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Traffic Advisory: HPR detour through Tue Jan 24

Public Works foreman Mike Webb reports that a broken water main has forced the closure of Halibut Point Rd. between Marine St. (near Blatchley Middle School) and the roundabout. Traffic will DETOUR along Marine St. and Erhler to the roundabout. Repairs are expected to take a full day on Tuesday.

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Swordplay

Fighting master Aaron Elmore, with Juneau's Theater in the Rough, teaches a swordfighting clinic to over two dozen Sitkans on Saturday (1-21-12). Students started out with pencils, but quickly worked their way up to real rapiers and foils. Two upcoming Sitka productions, "Moon Over Buffalo" and "Cyrano", both feature extensive swordplay (and daggers!).

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Mon Jan 23, 2011

https://www.kcaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/news_012312.mp3 Click here for iFriendly audio. KCAW awaiting official confirmation of a report that Sitka Magistrate Bruce Horton died last Friday in a fall at his home. Sitka...

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Fri Jan 20, 2012

https://www.kcaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/news_012012.mp3 Click here for iFriendly audio. Sitka guardsman assists effort in Cordova to dig out from under 18-feet of snow. Tribal Council makes interim GM hire permanent....

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Celtic Concert

Listen to the interview and songs here.  Hall of Fame Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser and cellist...

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Kicking the (frozen) bucket

Bill Foster won't worry about coming up with an "ice-breaker" at his next party. The former Sitka biology teacher visited Nome this month to witness the Coast Guard Cutter Healy as it escorted the fuel tanker Renda through the pack ice. Foster, who taught in Nome from 1969-1971, says "seeing an ice-breaker at work was on my bucket list."

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