Emily Kwong, KCAW, Author at KCAW

Sitka adopts incentive program to attract electric customers

On Tuesday night (12-12-17), the Sitka Assembly approved an incentive program that would offer big commercial customers electricity at a discounted rate for the first three years.

Sitka Community doctors will deliver babies at SEARHC

Sitka Community Hospital has decided to phase out their labor and delivery program next year. As early as April 1st 2018, all babies born in Sitka will be delivered at Mt. Edgecumbe, operated by the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium.

Sitka Assembly to solicit management proposals for hospital

The Sitka Assembly is holding a special meeting tonight (12-105-17) to take up a conversation about Sitka Community Hospital. On the agenda is reviewing a draft of an RFP, or request for proposal, for management solutions.

Sitka’s first non-discrimination law passes on first reading

The City of Sitka may soon have a non-discrimination law on the books. The new lines of Sitka General Code would define unlawful discrimination and create a process for citizens to file violations in court.

City installs LED lights for a brighter, safer skate park

There’s a new light display in Sitka and no, we’re not talking about the kind that twinkle. The city recently installed overhead lights at the Turnaround Skate Park, a popular hang-out spot.

City may soon offer electric discounts for businesses

The Sitka Assembly has approved, on first reading, creating an incentive program for commercial entities to use the city’s electricity. The ordinance states that customers projected to spend $75,000 a year on electricity would get a discounted rate for the the first three years.

November 28th, 2017: What’s happening at tonight’s Assembly meeting?

The Sitka Assembly will reconsider a program to incentivize electric use by commercial users at their meeting tonight (11-28-17), review a non-discrimination ordinance, and several requests to appropriate money.

Indigenous voices call for a new kind of Alaska Day

The holidays are a time of tradition, but also reflection for why we celebrate the way we do. And in Sitka, no holiday is as much of a lightning rod for cultural debate as Alaska Day. In part one of a two-part series on “Navigating Sitka’s Colonial History,” KCAW’s Emily Kwong reports on how two perspectives for one holiday collided.

With bigger budget for snow removal, Sitka prepares for winter

As temperatures drop, the City and Borough of Sitka is gearing up for another season of clearing the roads of snow. The public works department has a new mantra they’re calling the “Three P’s of Snow Removal”: Be prepared, be patient, and be a partner.

Listen: State writer laureate Ernestine Hayes reading ‘Tao of Raven’

Writers both local and international gathered in Sitka this weekend to celebrate the power of language. Among them was Alaska state writer laureate Ernestine Hayes. She read from her work during the Island Institute's Wild Language Festival on Saturday (11-18-17).