SEARHC offers $8.25 million for former Sitka Community Hospital properties
If the Assembly votes to sell the former Sitka Community Hospital property to SEARHC, the...
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Retrospective: The Great Alaska Quake turns 55
55 years ago, on March 27, 1964, a magnitude 9.2 earthquake struck Southcentral Alaska. In 2014, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Great Alaska Quake, KCAW’s Emily Forman prepared a five-part retrospective of the event, featuring residents who experienced it first hand -- both in Anchorage and in Southeast.
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‘Woman with small shovel’ finds a clue to Sitka’s paleo past
A stone tool -- resembling a wedge, or striker -- was unearthed in an excavation beneath a street in downtown Sitka, and may never have been found, but for a retired anthropologist who knew what to look for.
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Rediscovering America’s link to Chinese exploration
During the 9th Annual Paths Across the Pacific meeting in Sitka, an historian argues that the Chinese -- rather than Europeans -- discovered the New World.Read More
Conference seeks connections across Pacific
The 9th Paths Across the Pacific Conference begins this week in Sitka. Co-founders Nancy Yaw Davis and "Flotsametrics" author Curtis Ebbesmeyer review some of the programs on the conference calendar. Downloadable audio.
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