Sitka
web-posted Wednesday, July 28, 2010
A rare fish was brought into Petersburg in early September 1954. The strange critter was taken by a Petersburg fisherman, Ernest Enge, who was fishing in Chatham Strait. Harold Gifford identified it as a prowfish. Gifford, a Canadian, happened to be in the Petersburg area on business for the International Halibut Commission.
web-posted Wednesday, July 28, 2010
The parish of St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church in Juneau has a reason to celebrate. After spending years without a regular priest, the church has welcomed Father Simeon Johnson to join as its rector.
web-posted Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Fishermen are happy as they wrap up the world's biggest red salmon fishery at Bristol Bay. Even though the catch of 28 million sockeye salmon came up a bit short, they will get a better payday than they've had in over two decades.
web-posted Wednesday, July 28, 2010
JUNEAU - Alaska's congressional delegation is seeking the replacement of a Coast Guard helicopter following a recent fatal crash off the Washington state coast. Three Sitka-based Coast Guard members died earlier this month when their helicopter went down near La Push, Wash.
web-posted Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Traveling from to Seattle or elsewhere in the Lower 48 for medical care has long been a necessary hardship for Alaskans, but visiting Anchorage can also be a burden.
web-posted Wednesday, July 28, 2010
SITKA - All are invited to explore Sitka's surrounding seas during two events organized by the Sitka Conservation Society.
web-posted Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Musicians came from near and far to attend Sitka's fifth annual Home Skillet Music Festival July 14-18. The event is put on by Home Skillet Records, a Sitka-based label created in 2004 by Nicholas Galanin and George Huff.
web-posted Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Sitka Local Foods Network Board Member Doug Osborne presents Lori Adams of Down To Earth U-Pick Garden the Table Of The Day award for the first Sitka Farmers Market of the 2010 summer season on July 22.
web-posted Wednesday, July 28, 2010
SITKA - The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) Health Promotion department is hosting free health screenings for adults age 18 and older on Thursday through Saturday July 29-31, in Sitka.
web-posted Wednesday, July 28, 2010
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. & Fri., Noon-1 p.m., Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11 a.m.-Noon, Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, July 21, 2010
SITKA - The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital Dental Clinic in Sitka will host a special pediatric dental clinic the week of Aug. 2-6.
web-posted Wednesday, July 21, 2010
SIKTA - On Friday, July 23, the Sitka Conservation Society is offering a Tongass Summer Boat Cruise from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. entitled "Pinnacles to Peak: Kruzof, A Unique Island Environment." Boarding begins at 5:15 pm at Crescent Harbor. This informative trip will travel to Kruzof Island and a visit by St. Lazaria Island, Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, will be weather dependent.
web-posted Wednesday, July 21, 2010
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. & Fri., Noon-1 p.m., Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11 a.m.-Noon, Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, July 21, 2010
JUNEAU - The Rasmuson Foundation Board of Directors recently awarded $1.86 million to nine Alaska organizations. Projects in Southeast receiving support including the following:
web-posted Wednesday, July 21, 2010
SITKA - The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) Health Promotion department is hosting free health screenings for adults age 18 and older on Thursday and Friday, July 29-30, at the Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital Litehouse Cafeteria conference rooms in Sitka.
web-posted Wednesday, July 21, 2010
SITKA - The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital in Sitka is pleased to announce the addition of Dr. Paul L. Peters, MD, to its medical staff as a radiologist.
web-posted Wednesday, July 21, 2010
A month past summer solstice, we're starting to lose daylight and the weather doesn't almost feel quite as summery as it did in May. But we're in prime season for all kinds of activities, from foraging to fishing to wildlife encounters. If that sounds to you like something worth celebrating, you'll have plenty of company. Nearly every Southeast community seems to be hosting a festival in the coming weeks. Some of the festivals are brand new, like this week's Wrangell Bear Fest; others, like the Southeast Alaska State Fair in Haines next weekend, have been around for decades. Here's the Capital City Weekly's roundup of what's on the regional docket for the coming weeks.
web-posted Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Buying locally produced foods is a trend that’s taken off across the nation, and Sitka is making sure that applies to fish. This summer a group of Sitkans launched Alaska’s first Community Supported Fisheries project which pre-sells shares of local catches directly to local customers. The fish is sold under the “Alaskans Own Seafood” brand, which claims to combine “the best in business with the best in conservation.”
web-posted Wednesday, July 21, 2010
The first thing I learned about Sacramento band Blvd Park is that they describe their style as "spaghetti western." Personally, I like pasta and deserts, so the aforementioned description was enough to interest me in the group before I ever heard them play.
web-posted Wednesday, July 14, 2010
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. & Fri., Noon-1 p.m., Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11 a.m.-Noon, Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, July 14, 2010
SKAGWAY - "Can't wait to be sick." That comment was overheard during the open house tour of Skagway's new medical facility, a $6 million state-of-the-art, city-owned health center.
web-posted Wednesday, July 14, 2010
SITKA - Walk into Sitka's Baranof Island Brewing Company on a sunny Thursday afternoon, and you will find a lot of people excited about beer. Stop in on a rainy Friday and you will meet even more. Wait until Saturday to drop by, and you might be out of luck.
web-posted Wednesday, July 14, 2010
SITKA - The Sitka Local Foods Network will host its third summer of Sitka Farmers Markets with five markets that start on July 17 and take place on alternate Saturdays through Sept. 11. The Sitka Farmers Markets give Sitka residents a chance to buy and sell locally produced food and crafts.
web-posted Wednesday, July 14, 2010
SITKA - Wanted: Art and logos for the first annual Sitka Seafood Festival art and logo contest. The seafood festival is looking for a logo, so put your thinking cap on and send it 411 Hemlock St. by August 1, camera-ready. There will be a prize for the winning logo. Also, bring your seafood-, ocean- or marine-themed art to the art show Aug. 7 at Harrigan Centennial Hall. For more information call Jeff Budd at 747-4821 or e-mail sitkaarts@yahoo.com.
web-posted Wednesday, July 14, 2010
SITKA - The Greater Sitka Arts Council will hold a meeting to discuss the re-vitalization of Community Theater in Sitka. Come to Harrigan Centennial Hall at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, July 21 to discuss the possibilities and explore the amount of interest in this effort. For more information call Jeff Budd at 747-4821 or e-mail sitkaarts@yahoo.com.
web-posted Wednesday, July 7, 2010
GUSTAVUS - Gustavus no longer looks to Juneau, Sitka and Ketchikan and envies their cheap and plentiful hydroelectric power.
web-posted Wednesday, July 7, 2010
The gorgeous magenta flowers of salmonberry shrubs are quickly being replaced by edible berries, dotting the profusion of green leaves with tantalizing orange and red raspberry-like fruit and kicking off the berry-picking season here on Prince of Wales Island and all over Southeast Alaska. Although the time is past for snacking on their tender spring shoots and edible flowers, ripe berries should be available into August.
web-posted Wednesday, July 7, 2010
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. & Fri., Noon-1 p.m., Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11 a.m.-Noon, Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, June 30, 2010
JUNEAU - Jocelyn Clark was planning to take a sabbatical from organizing a CrossSound concert series this year, until she was presented with an offer too good to pass up.
web-posted Wednesday, June 30, 2010
JUNEAU - The theme for this year's Juneau Fourth of July parade is "America's Kids," and three amazing local youths will serve as the parade's Grand Marshals: Anna Graceman, Russadell Buzard and Nicole Nelson.
web-posted Wednesday, June 30, 2010
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. & Fri., Noon-1 p.m., Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11 a.m.-Noon, Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, June 30, 2010
JUNEAU - The United Way of Southeast Alaska recently announced Community Impact Grant awards totaling $24,000 to six partner agencies. The projects were selected by a volunteer committee of the board of directors chaired by Katherine Eldemar, from a pool of proposals. The Community Impact Grants were divided into two groups this year. One focused on early literacy and the second set was focused on matching grant funds to help on any issue of need.
web-posted Wednesday, June 23, 2010
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. & Fri., Noon-1 p.m., Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11 a.m.-Noon, Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, June 23, 2010
JUNEAU - There were no caps and gowns at one graduation ceremony last Friday, and only two attendees wore ties. Instead of mortarboards, graduates were encouraged to toss their baseball caps in the air.
web-posted Wednesday, June 23, 2010
"Lord, what fools these mortals be!" says Puck in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Nights Dream." His words would fit well in Southeast Alaska on the midsummer night of June 26, when fools of all ages will don elaborate costumes for a midnight run through the streets of the region's three largest cities.
web-posted Wednesday, June 23, 2010
SITKA - The SEARHC Injury Prevention Team is hosting a day-and-a-half-long conference called "Preventing Injuries in Your Community: A Planned Approach" on July 19-20 in Sitka. This regional conference will feature a mix of theory and hands-on work all designed to assist participants in reducing the rate and severity of injuries in your Southeast Alaska communities. Topics include injuries as a public health problem, program planning and measuring success.
web-posted Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Canned halibut has never been accepted by consumers. Attempts were made to preserve halibut in a can several times over the past 132 years.
web-posted Wednesday, June 16, 2010
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. & Fri., Noon-1 p.m., Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11 a.m.-Noon, Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, June 9, 2010
SITKA - The Sitka Summer Music Festival's 39th year is one of "transition and expansion," said operations director Melissa Marconi Mentzel.
web-posted Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Never golfed before? Don’t let that stop you from attending the 12th annual Mary Hervin Golf Tournament on June 19.
web-posted Wednesday, June 9, 2010
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. & Fri., Noon-1pm, Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11am-Noon, Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, June 9, 2010
SITKA - One of Alaska's oldest schools, credited with helping give rise to an influential Native political movement, is being sold off piece by historic piece in an effort to avoid bankruptcy and salvage what's left of its legacy.
web-posted Wednesday, June 9, 2010
SITKA - The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital Dental Clinic in Sitka will host a pediatric dental clinic the week of June 21-25.
web-posted Wednesday, June 9, 2010
SITKA - A new restaurant and wine bar in downtown Sitka is offering unique dishes and a wide wine selection. The Bayview Restaurant and Wine Bar provides residents and visitors with "quality food in an upscale environment and a place to enjoy a glass of wine or beer," said Laura Timmons, CFO of the business.
web-posted Wednesday, June 9, 2010
ANCHORAGE - Democrat Scott McAdams knows he can't compete against the nearly $2 million that incumbent U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has in hand for this year's election.
web-posted Wednesday, June 2, 2010
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. & Fri., Noon-1pm, Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11am-Noon, Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, June 2, 2010
JUNEAU - The Alaska State Museums are among more than 600 museums to offer free admission to military personnel and their families this summer.
web-posted Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Alaska seafood competes in a tough global market, and currency values in other countries play a big role in customer sales. Whether it is fish or timber, oil or minerals, people around the world are producing competing products, and aggressively selling into the same markets as Alaska. And for seafood, world currencies are topsy turvy from one year ago.
web-posted Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Don't let another season pass you by! Plan to harvest spruce tips soon to flavor tea, jelly, syrup, beer and more. They are especially easy to collect.
web-posted Wednesday, May 26, 2010
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. & Fri., Noon-1pm, Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11am-Noon, Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, May 26, 2010
JUNEAU - Like exercising regularly or learning how to speak fluent Spanish, gardening is one of those resolutions I make every January and sometimes actually start, but never wind up finishing.
web-posted Wednesday, May 26, 2010
SITKA - The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) and Sitka Local Foods Network will host Northwest garden guru, author, TV personality and seed company owner Ed Hume for two presentations on sustainable gardening.
web-posted Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Listed below are the names of the 2010 high school graduates from Southeast Alaska that were available at presstime.
web-posted Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Trollers are ticked off that the arrival of fish to Copper River always makes headlines claiming "it's the start of Alaska's salmon fishery" and "the first fresh fish of the season."
web-posted Wednesday, May 19, 2010
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. & Fri., Noon-1pm, Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11am-Noon, Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, May 19, 2010
SITKA - The Sheldon Jackson Museum's Native Artists Demonstrators Program is in full swing, thanks in part to a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to the Friends of the Sheldon Jackson Museum in Sitka. From May until September, artists present traditional arts as they are practiced by Alaska's indigenous cultures.
web-posted Wednesday, May 12, 2010
JUNEAU - Corvus Design announces the opening of a new office in Juneau by landscape architect Christopher Mertl, ASLA. Mertl has 18 years of experience in Alaska and expands the firm's strengths for coastal design and knowledge specific to Southeast Alaska.
web-posted Wednesday, May 12, 2010
SITKA - Alaskans on Saturday mourned the loss of former Gov. Walter J. Hickel and remembered him as a visionary and a maverick.
web-posted Wednesday, May 12, 2010
SITKA - A new Southeast Alaska Suicide Prevention Task Force met for the first time on April 29 and 30, at the Sheet'ká Kwáan Naa Kahídi in Sitka. The task force will develop a regional suicide prevention plan that can be taken back to each of the communities for implementation.
web-posted Wednesday, May 12, 2010
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. & Fri., Noon-1pm, Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11am-Noon, Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Now that the spring herring-egg harvest in Sitka is over, let's think about how those fish, hidden in the sea, are located. Today there are those electronic devices and test fisheries. Not only did the early fisherman not have these, they did not have a herring egg fishery. That is a more recent development.
web-posted Wednesday, May 5, 2010
On the first Friday of each month, Juneau galleries, museums and shops stay open late and host show and exhibit openings, artist meet-and-greets and more. Following is information about events available as of press time. All events and openings listed are on Friday, May 7 unless otherwise noted. To have your event listed here next month, e-mail details to editor@capweek.com no later than one week prior.
web-posted Wednesday, April 28, 2010
JUNEAU - Wells Fargo has named Chris Beck private banker for Southeast Alaska. He will provide Wells Fargo Bank private banking clients with customized financial solutions guided by each client's short- and long-term goals. Beck is based in Juneau at the Wells Fargo Investments office at 8800 Glacier Highway.
web-posted Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Sitka is doing something that a lot of fishing communities spend a lot of time talking about - investing directly in future generations of both fishermen and fish.
web-posted Wednesday, April 28, 2010
JUNEAU - The Alaska Marine Safety Education Association (AMSEA) will offer three free cold water safety workshops to be held May 10-12 in Juneau/Douglas. The first two workshops will be held at the dock at Sandy Beach in Douglas. The first workshop will cover immersion suits and life rafts and the second workshop will cover emergency signal flares and marine firefighting. The third workshop will take place at the UAS Bill Ray Center in Juneau, and will cover vessel flooding control using the U.S. Coast Guard's vessel flooding control simulator.
web-posted Wednesday, April 28, 2010
JUNEAU - A bald eagle sighting in Juneau is no rare event, but the occurrence evoked an eruption of cheers from a crowd gathered to participate in an Eagle totem pole raising ceremony last Saturday.
web-posted Wednesday, April 28, 2010
JUNEAU - Elders are paired with teachers in an innovative course to train teachers of Tlingit in the use of Tlingit verbs. Participants work with a data base of 500 verbs created by Linguist Keri Edwards. The weekly course, the result of a partnership between the Goldbelt Heritage Foundation and the University of Alaska Southeast, is attended in person in downtown Juneau at the UAS Bill Ray Center and via audio conference by teachers and elders from Southeast communities including Hoonah, Sitka, Kake, Wrangell,and Klukwan.
web-posted Wednesday, April 28, 2010
WRANGELL - Women living in Wrangell have new, local access to comprehensive women's health screenings and other wellness services thanks to a partnership between the Wrangell Medical Center, Alaska Island Community Services (AkICS), SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) WISEWOMAN Women's Health Program and the Alaska Breast and Cervical Health Check program. These screenings will give women the tools they need to fight cancer, heart disease and diabetes.
web-posted Wednesday, April 28, 2010
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. & Fri., Noon-1pm, Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11am-Noon, Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, April 21, 2010
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. & Fri., Noon-1pm, Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11am-Noon, Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, April 21, 2010
JUNEAU - An Eagle totem pole will be raised at the University of Alaska Southeast (UAS) this month, bringing an end to a quest to balance an existing Raven pole on campus.
web-posted Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Southeast Alaska is a land of strong communities that manage to stay connected despite their extreme isolation. This weekend, over 650 high school music students from Craig, Haines, Hoonah, Juneau, Ketchikan, Klawock, Metlakatla, Petersburg, Sitka and Wrangell will close the distance between their hometowns by attending the annual Southeast Alaska Music Festival.
web-posted Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Editor's note: This is the final column in a three-part series about the production of "The Marriage of Figaro," which will be performed by the Juneau Lyric Opera and Opera to Go in Juneau and Sitka this month.
web-posted Wednesday, April 14, 2010
This peculiar, precipitation-filled journey began five years ago for me with Juneau Lyric Opera's production of "The Barber of Seville." By strange happenstance, a near lifelong friendship between the stage director, Terry Cramer, and Rebecca Harris-Warrick, chair of the music department at Cornell, led me to singing the role of Don Basilio. Two years later, I was asked to play the Sacristan in "Tosca." For the third production in five years, I have now returned to Juneau to be stage director of Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro."
web-posted Wednesday, April 14, 2010
HAINES - Where do you want to spend the last years of your life? For 86-year-old Haines resident Lucy Harrell, the answer to that question is easy: Haines, Alaska, her home for the past 24 years.
web-posted Wednesday, April 14, 2010
SITKA -Properly chilled fish is the first step toward delivering superior Alaska seafood to world markets. Consumers demand quality and fishermen can be rewarded with higher prices for the extra care.
web-posted Wednesday, April 7, 2010
"Let me tell how it begins. May I just do that?" Who can forget that classic line from "Amadeus," where Mozart's character pleads with the Emperor of Austria to allow the operatic performance of a story the Emperor had previously banned, a story Napoleon Bonaparte credited with inciting the French Revolution. Mozart was successful in his request to perform "The Marriage of Figaro" due to the extraordinary music and outrageous comedy brought together by his musical genius.
web-posted Wednesday, April 7, 2010
JUNEAU - Almost everyone has times where it is difficult to get a good night's sleep. Stress, time zone changes, daylight and aging are just a few of the common causes of insomnia and sleeplessness.
web-posted Wednesday, April 7, 2010
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. & Fri., Noon-1pm, Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11am-Noon, Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, April 7, 2010
"This was the best Site Managers' Workshop ever," stated a couple of Southeast Senior Services managers. From March 15 through 19, 11 senior center managers living in Southeast Alaska travelled to Juneau where they participated in five days of intensive training. Senior center managers from Angoon, Haines, Hoonah, Juneau, Kake, Ketchikan, Klawock, Sitka, Skagway, Wrangell and Yakutat attended.
News
- Recipe for entertainment
- Society for Creative Anachronism brings the 16th century to the Southeast Alaska State Fair
- Best payday in decades for Bristol Bay fishermen
- Hicks named principal of Mendenhall River Community School
- St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church welcomes new priest
- Explosion and fire destroy Hoonah saw mill
- Ketchikan man killed in floatplane crash
- Delegation seeks helicopter replacement
- Girls on the Run seeks coaches for fall season
- Rare prowfish identified in Petersburg in the 1950s
- New business creates a beacon for Juneau mini golf fans
- Southeast Alaska State Fair
- Carlos Boozer Basketball Camp starts August 2
- Boozer participates in coach training, celebration
- Photos: Sitka's Home Skillet Music Festival
