Concerns around social distancing and the spread of COVID-19 mean that many communities around Alaska are forgoing their normal Fourth of July events. Sitka won’t host a traditional parade this year. Instead, they're getting creative.
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UAS Sitka is collaborating with UAS Juneau's Career Services director to host four virtual workshops this month over Zoom to help recent graduates and job seekers work on their resumes, virtual interviewing skills and more. KCAW's Erin Fulton spoke with 'College to Career' coordinator Jeff Budd to learn more.
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A perfect storm of state budget cuts, maintenance issues and the COVID-19 pandemic has silenced many of the state’s ferry docks this winter and spring, including Sitka’s. The Alaska Marine Highway System recently updated its summer ferry schedule, and if all goes according to plan, ferries will resume limited service to Southeast communities in June and July.
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If you’ve been for a bike ride on Sitka’s Cross Trail recently, you might’ve noticed a skinny one-way path called the “907.” It’s Sitka’s first official single-track loop for mountain biking. And for the last few months, it’s kept the Sitka Cycling Club busy.
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U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan teleconferenced into the Sitka Assembly meeting on Tuesday to give a report, and spent around half an hour fielding questions and concerns from assembly members, most of it focused on federal funding to...
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Lione Claire, with the Sitka Conservation Society, and Jennifer Nu, with the Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition, are co-organizing the first-ever Local Foods Challenge. The program is intended to share information, resources, and place-based advice from around the region. Sign up at the salt and soil website. With KCAW's Robert Woolsey.
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Talk of Southeast Alaska is a call-in radio program about regional issues faced by folks in all...
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Artchange and Raven Radio are partnering to bring you “A Moment Together,” a project to help keep...
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The Sitka Assembly is meeting tonight at 6 p.m. in a hastily-convened work session, to review how it may distribute CARES Act funding. The Alaska Legislature met in Juneau on Monday and ratified a spending plan for over $1 billion in federal relief funds in the state. Now, municipalities have to come up with local plans.
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SEARHC health educator Doug Osborne and public health nurse Dawn Groth are co-coordinators of the 2nd Annual Alaska Walk and Bike Conference, which will be held online this year on June 9 - 12.
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