Thursday’s meeting was meant to be a 30,000-foot view of the 2021 budget- this early in the game there are still many unknowns. Nevertheless, the Sitka School District remains the biggest expense on the city balance sheet, just ahead of public safety.
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Governor Mike Dunleavy’s budget was released last week, and it’s a mixed message for The Sheldon Jackson Museum in Sitka. The governor has removed the museum from a proposed list of assets to sell. But the price of admission is likely to increase.
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Sitka Americorps volunteer Ashley Hart Nessler is a finalist for a national award- Corpsmember of the Year. Nessler and Americorps coordinator Sarah Lawrie joined KCAW's Erin Fulton in the studio to discuss Nessler's work at Sitka High School.
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In a move intended to help level the playing field for local merchants in competition with online retailers, the Sitka Assembly on Tuesday approved a resolution to join the Alaska Remote Seller Sales Tax Commission.
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A $2 million-plus makeover for Sitka’s downtown main street is back on -- maybe. The Sitka Assembly voted last summer to postpone the project for a year for additional study, but at a work session Tuesday night (12-10-19) city staff said that postponing the project came with its own caveats. And some residents are just antsy to get it done.
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At a time when bears should typically be denning up for winter, Sitka has actually seen an uptick in bear activity. Two dogs have been killed in the last month, prompting Fish and Game to adopt a more active strategy in dealing with the bears.
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Over the weekend, a U.S. Coast Guard crew from Air Station Sitka medevacked a teenager who was experiencing chest pains while hiking on the north end of Baranof Island.
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After three years of “passive management,” Sitka’s state parks reopened in 2019 thanks to some staff reorganization in Juneau. But keeping the parks open will depend on how readily Sitkans buy into a new fee system.
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Just a few months after the Sitka Assembly finalized this year’s budget, they’re back into their spreadsheets, looking at the numbers for next year.
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Sitka’s local government has joined the chorus opposed to exempting Alaska from the US Forest Service Roadless Rule. The Sitka Assembly on Tuesday (11-26-19), passed a resolution in favor of “No Change” to the 2001 federal rule -- with only Sitka mayor Gary Paxton in dissent KCAW’s
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