The eagle lying dead off the Cross Trail looks like you'd expect: wings folded in to its body, head turned to the side, talons closed. But one of its legs carries a small metal band -- and that band tells a story you should hear.
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Tuesday was the last day of operation for the Bill Brady Healing Center. The inpatient drug-and-alcohol rehab program has existed in its current form since 1996. As employees packed up their desks, they told KCAW that working at the center was more than a job.
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Kitty LaBounty, Ashley Bolwerk and Wendy Alderson explain science sharing, which takes place tonight at 7 p.m. at UAS. The event features students sharing their science projects with members of the community. It's free and open to the public.
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Sitka girl, 15, shaves head for childhood cancer research. Finnish education reform advocate Pasi Sahlberg to speak in Sitka this afternoon. Kreiss-Tomkins reflects on his first session in the Alaska House.
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Pasi Sahlberg is a professor of education in Finland, as well as an author and lecturer. His book, “Finnish Lessons,” discusses Finland’s education system, consistently ranked among the best in the world.
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The work-session looked only at the general fund. It’s a $25 million pot of money the city uses to fund its basic day-to-day operations. Funding remains mostly flat across city departments.
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Sitka Municipal Administrator Jim Dinley issued the following statement to city employees on Thursday morning (April 25), just before making his resignation official.
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The news came after an hourlong closed-door meeting of the Sitka Assembly on Wednesday. It became official Thursday when the city cut Dinley a check for severance pay.
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Officially, no one has said what, if anything, might happen to Jim Dinley, but there are signs. His office is packed up. His nameplate no longer sits on the lip of his desk. The Air Force memorabilia is gone from the credenza along the inside wall. And what is usually a work space full of memos and notepads was nearly empty on Tuesday afternoon.
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A Sitka woman is feeling lucky today, after escaping a fire at her apartment over the weekend. No one was injured in the blaze, which happened around 10 a.m. Saturday in the 400 block of Hemlock Street.
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