The Sitka School Board has pared down its budget deficit next year to the point where the district may have to lay off only 4 teachers -- but cutting both the Performing Arts Center and Community Schools remain possibilities without more cash from the city.
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Sitka’s domestic violence shelter has less than $80,000 to go in a fundraising campaign to renovate and expand the 60-year old facility.
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The $1.3 trillion dollar spending bill signed into law by President Trump last Friday (3-23-18) reauthorized of the Secure Rural Schools Program, catching Sitka's school district -- and everyone else -- by surprise.
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For the third year in a row, Sitka school board members and representatives of the district administration fielded listener questions during a 90-minute budget forum on KCAW.
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Lt. Gov. Mallot was in Sitka recently (3-21-18) to hear the concerns some king trollers have about ADF&G's role in renegotiating the Pacific Salmon Treaty with Canada. While acknowledging that Alaska has been disadvantaged in the past, Mallott supports the state's treaty negotiating team.
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Bail has been set at $1-million for the alleged “ringleader” behind events that left a Sitka woman hospitalized with gunshot wounds on Sunday (3-18-18).
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The fishing advocacy group Chinook Futures Coalition is holding a forum in Sitka this Wednesday afternoon (3 p.m. - 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 21, Harrigan Centennial Hall) to shed light on how negotiations with Canada have disadvantaged Alaskan fishermen -- even as the state works to address a serious conservation problem.
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Faculty and administrators rallied behind cultural programming in the Sitka School District, during the school board’s annual meeting (3-6-16) at the Alaska Native Brotherhood Founder’s Hall this month. As the school district addresses a spending gap of over $2-million, educators stressed that cultural programming was paying dividends for all students.
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An effort by the City of Sitka to keep some emails out of a murder trial involving two former municipal employees will be resolved in a judge’s chambers. Judge David George has ordered that over 1,800 emails seized from the computer of Reuben Yerkes be turned over the court for ex parte in camera review.
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The Sitka School District is having an unprecedented budget discussion, as it looks to the city to help close a $2.3 million dollar spending gap next year. The School Board and the Assembly met in a special meeting Thursday night (3-8-18) to crunch numbers, and to consider some extreme measures to save money.
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