Sitka’s municipal election results were certified by the assembly on Tuesday (10-13-20). Raven News connected with a few of the candidates shortly after the election to find out how they were feeling, in their post election bliss.
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Sitkans have seen an uptick in bear activity in recent weeks. Bears that would typically come out late at night and rob trash cans have become bolder about appearing in the daytime, and Sitka National Historical Park has been closed -- just to humans -- 24/7 until bears head to their dens.
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The polls have closed and the numbers are in...well about half of them, anyway. KCAW’s Katherine Rose reports on how municipal election results looked, as of Tuesday night, and who the front-runners are as officials prepare to count over 1,700 more ballots Wednesday afternoon:
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Sitka’s municipal election is today (10-6-20). Early voter turnout is more than triple last year’s count, meaning that Sitkans likely won’t have a good idea of who won until Wednesday afternoon, at the earliest.
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City officials are hoping to keep schools open in Sitka, as the number of coronavirus cases in the community edges closer to the threshold for closing them.
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Mt. Edgecumbe High School in Sitka briefly locked down and quarantined around 25 students, after another student at the state-run boarding school tested positive for the coronavirus earlier this week.
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The Sitka Assembly is postponing its decision on how to distribute $50,000 in funding to the community’s nonprofit organizations, until it has more clarity on its own budget.
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Earlier this year, the Sitka Assembly budgeted $5 million of available CARES Act money for business and nonprofit grants, without really knowing how many businesses would take advantage of the program. The application period closed last month, and on Thursday (9-25-20), the assembly had the opportunity to take stock of how much coronavirus relief funding is left in the pot.
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Sitka has joined other Southeast communities in declaring an economic disaster due to COVID-19 and poor salmon returns across the region.
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A little over a year after the city sold Sitka Community Hospital to the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium, SEARHC is moving forward with its promised hospital expansion project. According to CEO Charles Clement, the project is on track to break ground next year.
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