Retired administrator and former teacher Phil Burdick submitted paperwork (9-28-23) as a write-in for the October 3 municipal election. He joins fellow write-in Steve Morse, and candidate Tom Williams in the race for three open seats on the Sitka School Board.
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An infusion of federal infrastructure funding, along with $270 million for ferries, has changed the outlook of transportation planners in Southeast Alaska. Several spoke during the recent Southeast Conference meeting in Sitka.
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ADF&G is extending the summer troll season by ten days to capitalize on the strong run of coho -- or silver salmon. While not the bonanza of last year's chum harvest, this year trollers will likely land over one million cohos.
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Strategic planning is not the sexiest topic, but you can't argue with the results in Sitka's schools. Their work interrupted by the pandemic, planners again reconvened to search for ways to improve education.
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Advocates say an update to the "National Standards" could overhaul outdated guidance for the management of Alaska's federal fisheries, and introduce climate change, equity, and environmental justice into harvest policies -- and drastically reduce bycatch.
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The Sitka School Board delayed funding the '24 activities account until it could be sure the move would not overdraw district reserves. Sports are happening anyway, using money raised by students last year.
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NOAA Fisheries has received a settlement of $1.3 million from the National Pollution Funds Center for restoration of herring habitat and shellfish monitoring in the aftermath of the 2017 sinking of the tugboat Powhatan in Starrigavan Bay.
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Sitka Sen. Bert Stedman says Alaskans will keep receiving dividend checks, despite a worrisome report from the AK Perm Fund Corp. that the earnings reserve account will be exhausted in four years. "We could skip inflation-proofing for a year or two," he says, "but what you can't do is start over-drawing the Permanent Fund."
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Sitka's interim school superintendent is no stranger to the district. Steve Bradshaw held the top job from 2001-2014. In the intervening nine years, he's seen the state fall behind in funding schools, and he'd like to change that. "If politeness doesn't do it, then we'll pound on doors," he told the school board at his first regular meeting on Wednesday (8-9-23).
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German university student Tessa Schindler is on course for a career in international relations, thanks in part to the year she spent as an exchange student in Sitka.
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