Valorie Nelson says she offered her name "to help," and is not interested in running for a full term on the school board this fall. The board is scheduled to fill its vacant seat on June 1.
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Sitka has 15 electric cars for every 1,000 residents, an EV adoption rate higher than California's. Now the community needs to find a place to locate a federally-funded charging station.
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The Alaska Volcano Observatory has reclassified Mt. Edgecumbe from "dormant" to "historically active." While there's clear evidence of volcanic activity deep under the mountain, it doesn't mean an eruption is imminent.
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Hundreds of hours of audio from an unlikely historical source are now archived on the internet, and available for anyone to listen to.
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The Sitka School District has been unable to reach a contract agreement with the union representing teachers. It's the first impasse in negotiations that anyone can remember.
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A leading researcher on the Queen Charlotte Fault believes the numerous small earthquakes beneath Sitka's Mt. Edgecumbe were produced by volcanic activity.
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The value for Southeast's hatchery-produced chum rebounded in 2021 to a level on par with pre-pandemic seasons, suggesting that the market is strengthening.
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Seismologists have detected a "swarm" of earthquakes below the long-dormant Mt. Edgecumbe volcano near Sitka, whose last major eruption was 4,500 years ago. Next comes a long period of "watchful waiting" for additional activity -- if any.
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Students in Career and Technical Education classes are getting hands-on experience working with equipment that could take their skills to the next level – literally – and launch them into jobs in the aerospace industry.
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Tim Fulton has designed a piece of equipment to make loading and unloading luggage and cargo more efficient – and dramatically safer – for the workers inside aircraft. The pandemic bought him the time to not only work out the kinks in the product, but to secure patents and distribution agreements all over the world. Now he'd like to build it in Sitka.
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