Baranof Elementary Principal Jill Lecrone and Kari Sagel joined KCAW's Erin Fulton to discuss the school's plan for kindergarten in the fall. They also discussed the Virtual Kids Camp the district will run this summer.
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Sitka residents and businesses may be getting a utility rebate, thanks to $14 million in federal coronavirus relief money coming into the city. The Sitka Assembly Tuesday night (5-19-20) met in a work session to discuss how to distribute the federal disaster relief funding.
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Students at Pacific High School graduated in a virtual ceremony with friends, loved ones and faculty on Saturday. It was the school’s first “Zoom” graduation but staff brought a personal touch to the platform, maintaining the closeness of Sitka’s most intimate graduation ceremony.
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72 Sitka High School seniors graduated in the school's first ever drive-thru ceremony on Monday (5-18-20). Students parked their cars in the Sitka High School parking lot, heard speeches from fellow graduates and honored faculty, and circled to the front of the building in their cars, one-by-one, to pick up their diplomas.
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The Sitka Assembly has approved a request from the Gary Paxton Industrial Park board to enter into contract negotiations with WC Enterprises to build and operate a marine haulout in Sitka. The company proposes completing the...
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Sitka is relaxing its tough quarantine policy to fall in line with the governor’s health mandates...
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Sitka’s local “hunker down” order is set to expire today (5/12/20). And when the Sitka Assembly meets tonight, it will consider rescinding an ordinance that requires everyone traveling to Sitka to quarantine for 14 days and requires businesses bringing workers into Sitka to provide plans to the city.
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Mt. Edgecumbe High School graduates made history on Thursday (5-7-20) when they received their diplomas during the school’s first ever virtual graduation ceremony joining in from their home villages all across the state.
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The Sitka Assembly is holding the line on its 14-day quarantine policy for all people arriving in the community, for now. During an emergency session held Tuesday (5-5-20) the assembly debated allowing a small subset of essential workers to go straight to work, without quarantining. Instead, members held off on the partial roll-back, and will consider downgrading the full quarantine at their next regular meeting.
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Gov. Mike Dunleavy is reopening Alaska, which is mixed news for parents who work. Although many businesses are opening under guidelines for social distancing, that’s proving difficult -- and maybe even unrealistic -- for Sitka’s childcare centers, who have to comply with generally higher standards.
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