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    Robert Woolsey
    SITKA, ALASKA (2008-05-14) The Sitka assembly took a first look at some innovative options for development on the benchlands at its regular meeting last night (Tue 5-13-08), but struggled with how to fund them.
    Melissa Marconi Wentzel
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    Sen. Bert Stedman (left) and Dale Williams of the Sitka Tribe of Alaska (center), speaking to reporters and the public at the Sitka ferry terminal Monday. Fairweather captain Michael Schlechter (right) holds a framed print of Sitka, presented to the ferry by Sitka Mayor Marko Dapcevich.
    SITKA, ALASKA (2008-05-14) The fast ferry Fairweather pulled into port at 12:30 PM Monday (5/12), and Sitka dignitaries were there to meet it. They turned out to celebrate the Alaska Marine Highway’s summer schedule – being hailed as the best the city has seen in years. And the star of the schedule is the Fairweather, which will sail between Sitka and Juneau 5 days a week.
    Melissa Marconi Wentzel
    SITKA, ALASKA (2008-05-14) The City of Sitka is hoping the Alaska Marine Highway will re-think its draft fall-winter-spring schedule. Officials are calling the schedule “a new low in service to Sitka”. As it now stands, travel to and from Sitka will require layovers of up to a week. Sitka will see four vessels a week until March. The fast ferry Fairweather will connect Sitka to Juneau on Mondays and Fridays, the mainliners Taku and Columbia will make stops on Tuesdays, the Taku traveling northbound and the Columbia southbound. Beginning in March, the Fairweather will be put into drydock and Sitka service will be down to the two mainliners once a week.
    Melissa Marconi Wentzel
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    Map of the Tongass National Forest. The Iyouktug project area is about 12 miles east-southeast of Hoonah.
    SITKA, ALASKA (2008-05-13) The Forest Service is opening up a number of small and large timber sales in the Iyouktug (eye-YOU-tug) area on northeast Chichagof Island – about 12 miles east-southeast of the small village of Hoonah. Over the course of about ten years, the agency expects to log close to 42-million board feet of timber, or about 33-hundred acres. The agency released the Final Environmental Impact Statement and Record of Decision for the Iyouktug (eye-YOU-tug) timber sales on May 3rd. As Melissa Marconi Wentzel reports, the controversial project is one of the largest the region has seen in recent years,
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