With uncertainty lingering as the 2021 tourist season approaches, Visit Sitka presented its marketing plan and budget to the assembly in a work session on Tuesday night. The plan focuses on some bright spots for the 2021 season, and projects a tourism boom in 2022.
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Last week, the Sitka Assembly met for the second time this year to discuss enterprise fund budgets for next fiscal year.
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When the Sitka Assembly meets tonight, it will discuss options for improving the Rocky Gutierrez Airport
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Processors, fishermen, and stakeholders in the Sitka Sac Roe herring fishery met for a pre-season meeting on Friday morning (3-19-21) to discuss the commercial fishery, which goes on two-hour notice this weekend.
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Herring season is underway in Sitka, and a commercial fishery is likely to happen, after a two-year hiatus. Earlier this week, demonstrators gathered outside Sitka’s courthouse, to catch the attention of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, calling for changes to management of the fishery.
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The Sitka Assembly hosted a town hall this week to hear feedback on the potential sale of the former Sitka Community Hospital building.
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A Coast Guard rescue team from Air Station Sitka medevacked a man with a broken leg last week.
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Sitka reported three new coronavirus cases last week.
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The Alaska Department of Fish and Game will host an informational meeting about Sitka’s 2021 herring season on Friday evening (3-12-21).
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When the Sitka Assembly met on Tuesday (3-9-21), it voted to develop a tourism master plan.
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