Tag: Lauren Wild

It’s more than a feeling: Capacity of Sitka’s childcare centers at rock-bottom

Sitka is far behind state and national averages for the availability of childcare, and it’s creating a crisis of unintended consequences in business, education, and the overall well-being of the community. The first in a series of panel discussions sponsored by the Sitka Chamber of Commerce (10-9-24) lent some hard data to Sitka’s childcare crisis, and began to explore solutions.Read More

Students simmer whale bones for science

 The smell of simmering whale bones wafted through the parking lot of Sitka’s UAS campus on Saturday (10-21-23). Students and volunteers are working on a project to rearticulate the skeleton of a juvenile humpback whale that washed up on Kruzof Island this spring – but first, they have to boil the bones. Read More
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