The Coast Guard performed two rescues in Sitka over the Memorial Day weekend: A medevac of an injured ATV rider, and towing the disabled fishing vessel Kari Ann away from rocks in Western Channel.
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Adults have the edge in the 2024 Sitka Salmon Derby -- but just barely. Ron Davis is in the lead with a 39.5-pound king, but not far behind is last year's winner, 11-year old Caleb Gray, in third place with a 28.5 pound fish.
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Sitka Music Festival executive director Alex Serio joins KCAW's Robert Woolsey to share details of the 53rd season of the Sitka Music Festival, which opens Tuesday, May 28, 2024, at the Mean Queen, featuring the Arianna String Quartet.
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Sitka Tribe of Alaska will host Diné bluesman Levi Platero and his family band for “Choose Your Medicine Wisely,” a sober night of Indigenous music on Friday, May 24 from 7 – 9pm at the Sheet’ká Kwáan Naa Kahídi.
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Brian McNitt and Robert Woolsey share the backstory behind this Sunday's Bill Foster Tribute Ride (beginning 11 a.m. Sunday, May 26, at the Salty Spoke Co-op). After the ride, relax at Harbor Mt. Brewing and watch a slideshow of Bill's 1959 ride to post-revolutionary Cuba!
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Sitka's Katlian Bay Road is three-quarters complete, but $27 million short in funding. Petersburg's hospital has yet to break ground. Neither project got "10 cents" in next year's capital budget.
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Dancers step out to the music of Sitka contra band Fishing for Cats, during Porch Fest 2024. This year's Porch Fest morphed from a lawn party behind KCAW, to a full-fledged street festival with food, music, and art all day long on May 18. That evening, three bands performed on the festival "main stage" at the Crescent Harbor net shed: Anel Y Los, Los Castaways, and Hank Moore & Friends.
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Mike Nares is the outdoor program officer with Freedom Alliance. He joined KCAW to talk about their program to bring veterans on three day fishing trips in Sitka. Listen here:
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Municipal administrator John Leach joins us to discuss tonight's joint meeting of the Sitka Assembly and the Sitka Tourism Task Force (6 p.m. Thursday, May 16, Harrigan Centennial Hall main auditorium), which has prepared a list of 32 recommendations on managing the community's rapid growth in cruise tourism.
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What is affordable housing and why doesn’t Sitka have more of it? At Tuesday night’s assembly meeting (5-14-24), Sitka Tribe of Alaska Communications Director Robin Sherman and Planning Director Amy Ainsley presented a report on affordable housing that attempted to answer those questions and explore possible approaches the city could take to addressing the problem.
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