The City of Sitka hauled out its first boat with its new marine Travelift on Thursday (5-15-25), but it will take the rest of the summer before the boatyard is fully operational. Board members of Sitka’s industrial park heard an update on the project, and on the setbacks that have pushed back the completion date.
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The Sitka Tribe plans to formalize an arrangement with Sealaska this summer, for management of the corporation’s lands in a popular subsistence fishing area. Redoubt sockeye – and urban bears – were two of the major topics at the semi-annual meeting of the Sitka Tribal Council and the Sitka Assembly this week (5-13-25).
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After losing a four-year battle to block commercial trolling for king salmon in Southeast Alaska, the Washington state-based Wild Fish Conservancy filed a petition last year to list kings under the Endangered Species Act. On May 8, they filed another suit to prompt the National Marine Fisheries Service to reach a determination on that petition.
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Graduation is just around the corner in Sitka (and elsewhere around the state), when school board members and faculty will bid farewell to departing seniors. One departing student in Sitka, however, recently flipped that formula.
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The Sitka School Board has passed a balanced budget for next year, with no staff cuts. But that could change – dramatically – if the governor vetoes the latest version of an education bill sent to him by the legislature.
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Ramper Innovations began seven years ago in a garage, and grew to $3.5 million business. But Founder and CEO Tim Fulton says the President's tariff policy has driven away both customers and investors.
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Funding cuts by the Trump administration have ended a long-standing community service program in Sitka, and around the state AmeriCorps has been staffing Sitka’s nonprofits, government agencies, and schools for over two decades. Corps members in Sitka were notified on April 25 that their positions were terminated, effective immediately.
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The superintendent of Mt. Edgecumbe High School has resigned. Suzzuk Mary Huntington has led the state-owned boarding school in Sitka for three years. She submitted a letter to the Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Education on April 14, and posted it to social media last Friday (April 18).
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Short-term tenants on land designated for Sitka’s new public boatyard are going to have to vacate by the end of the summer, as the facility begins to haul and block boats. But officials are still shaping a long-term vision for the site, with the deadline for opening is just six weeks away.
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The Sitka School Board has a draft budget for next year, but it’s not what some members hoped for. The district plans to fire another four teachers, with the elementary grades taking the hit. School board members wanted the administration to revisit the plan, and to try to keep staffing levels from dropping any lower.
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