Author: Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock

Herring fishery debated before Board of Fish

Herring may be one of the most heated issues before the Alaska Board of Fisheries as meetings continue this week. Sitka Tribe of Alaska has three proposals that would limit the commercial harvest and increase subsistence thresholds for the sitka sound sac roe herring. Another proposal from the Ketchikan Herring Association seeks to close commercial herring in certain areas in Southeast.

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Murkowski brightens (a little) on stimulus bill

Senator Lisa Murkowski says she's trying to become more optimistic about the economic stimulus package. The Alaska Republican delivered a sharp rebuttal to President Obama's weekend radio address (2-14-09). But the following Wednesday, she told the Sitka Chamber of Commerce that she was trying to cheer up:

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Ben Gordon's Inauguration Journal

When most of us were twelve years old, we spent our Saturday afternoons doing what twelve-year-olds do: hanging out or doing chores. But one seventh-grader in Sitka, inspired by Barack Obama’s clinching the democratic nomination last summer, decided to use his free time to volunteer for the future president’s campaign. Ben Gordon didn’t stuff envelopes, and he was too young to drive voters to the polls. Instead, he canvassed door-to-door for Obama and other democratic candidates. His last stop was the door of the US Capitol, one month ago today (2-20-09). KCAW asked him to record some of his experiences in Washington DC: This is Ben Gordon’s Inauguration journal.

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Huge crowd gives testimony before the State Fish Board

Fisheries are a huge part of SE Alaska’s economy, and here as in other areas around the country people are more concerned than ever about their livelihood. That’s been the prevailing message this week in Sitka as more than 200 people supplied testimony to the Board of Fish, on over 160 proposals related to managing Sport, Charter, Commercial, and Subsistence fisheries.

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"Alaska's Fisheries, Fifty Years of Statehood"

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game released a new book on the history of Alaska's fisheries at this week's Board of fisheries meeting in Sitka. The book, called Sustaining Alaska's Fisheries: Fifty Years of Statehood, was written by Historian Bob King, who is now working as legislative assistant to Senator Mark Begich in Washington DC.

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Sitkan fights internet "spoof" with education

FBI statistics show that Alaskans are no more or less vulnerable to certain kinds of internet scams than Americans in more populated areas of the country. Virtual criminals make no distinction about where their victims live, whether it’s an apartment in Manhattan, or an island in Southeast Alaska. But one Sitka resident has decided that a good offense is the best defense against online identity theft. She’s decided to go public in the hope that others can take a lesson from her story.

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NDBC to recover grounded Edgecumbe buoy

The National Data Buoy Center is making plans to recover the Cape Edgecumbe weather buoy. The buoy went adrift in December gales, and has gone ashore in the northern gulf, near Kayak Island -- 350 miles off station.

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City, school district to split federal schools funding

The Secure Rural Schools Act or Timber Receipt funds were re-allocated this year, and the city is slated to receive about 1.8 million dollars—thanks in large part to members of the school board lobbying congress on behalf of the act. Last night (2-10-09) the Sitka assembly voted to approve an amendment that would give the school district half of the 85% of the funding left after 15% of it is paid to the Forest Service. But Some Sitka parents and educators wanted to see that percentage increased.

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Pacific High students help make history at Smithsonian

Students from Pacific High school recently traveled to Washington DC and got first-hand experience archiving artifacts from the Smithsonian at the National Museum of the American Indian. The project they worked on is part of the cultural resource center’s virtual museum, which allows anyone, anywhere with access to the internet, a 360 degree view of museum artifacts.

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Technician gives Steinway a human touch

A week before the Sitka Jazz Festival opened this month (2-6-09), a heavy crate arrived at the new Sitka Performing Arts Center. As festival co-director Terry Lovett told audiences, his reaction at the time was “Now what?” KCAW’s Robert Woolsey recently spent some time talking with the man who transformed the crate of parts into a Steinway concert grand piano:

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