Sitka
web-posted Wednesday, February 1, 2012
web-posted Wednesday, February 1, 2012
web-posted Wednesday, January 25, 2012
SITKA - Artists of all ages and abilities are invited to submit visual art pieces to the second annual Ode to Sitka Visual Arts Show, sponsored by Sitka Arti Gras and the Great Sitka Arts Council. Artists are asked to reflect upon their relationship with their town and its unique environment. Pieces will be on display only and not for sale. Artists are asked to register their work between 2 and 5 p.m. on March 8 at Harrigan Centennial Hall. The show will be on display March 9-10 during the Arti Gras festival. For more information, call Sanda Fontaine at 738-4014.
web-posted Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Over the course of a year, the SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) Yéil Jeeyáx Raven’s Way adolescent residential substance abuse treatment center receives support from several organizations and individuals in Sitka. Raven’s Way thanks those who have provided this support and helped our students be successful.
web-posted Wednesday, January 25, 2012
January is National Glaucoma Awareness Month, and the SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) is working to help people learn more about the eye disease.
web-posted Wednesday, January 25, 2012
SITKA - Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges will award a $1,000 scholarship for a full-time undergraduate or graduate student at a U.S. accredited college or university.
web-posted Wednesday, January 25, 2012
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. and Fri., Noon-1 p.m., Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11 a.m.-Noon, CBJ Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, January 25, 2012
JUNEAU - Marlintini's Lounge will host the next Roughhouse Boxing event at 9 p.m. on Jan. 27. Those under the age of 21 will be admitted if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.
web-posted Wednesday, January 18, 2012
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. and Fri., Noon-1 p.m., Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11 a.m.-Noon, CBJ Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, January 18, 2012
SITKA - Jessica and Jason Dunn show off their daughter, Madelyn Mae Dunn, who was the first baby of 2012 born at the SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) S'áxt' Hít Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital in Sitka. Madelyn was born at 5:50 a.m. on Jan. 9. She weighed 8 pounds, 7 ounces, and was 21.5 inches long.
web-posted Wednesday, January 18, 2012
SITKA - SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) diabetes nurse case managers Lisa Schwartz, RN, of the Haines Health Center and Julie Sturtevant, RN, of the Alicia Roberts Medical Center in Klawock recently earned Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE) credentials from the National Certification Board for Diabetes Educators.
web-posted Wednesday, January 11, 2012
SITKA - The Greater Sitka Arts Council and the Sitka Fine Arts Camp are hosting a series of Art Conversations with local artists. All Sitkans are invited to join these conversations. The second session in the series will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Jan. 25 at the Fine Arts campus in the Rasmuson Building, featuring poet, writer and investigator John Straley and musician and teacher Ted Howard. The evening of discussion and conversation will cover their philosophy, art experiences and examples of their work.
web-posted Wednesday, January 11, 2012
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. and Fri., Noon-1 p.m., Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11 a.m.-Noon, CBJ Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, January 4, 2012
SITKA - The Sitka Monthly Interactive Grind will be held Jan. 14 at the Sheet'ka Kwaán Naa Kahídi Community House. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with music beginning at 7 p.m.
web-posted Wednesday, January 4, 2012
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. and Fri., Noon-1 p.m., Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11 a.m.-Noon, CBJ Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Alaska's official motto reveals a whole lot more about our state than a kitschy state slogan is supposed to.
web-posted Wednesday, January 4, 2012
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. and Fri., Noon-1 p.m., Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11 a.m.-Noon, CBJ Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, January 4, 2012
SITKA - The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) Gunaanasti Bill Brady Healing Center hosts two free, weekly support groups for people in Sitka who are in recovery from alcohol and substance abuse. The Yei éek kwa néix ("You are going to get well") support groups meet from 5:30-7 p.m. on Mondays and Friday sat 1204 Seward Ave. The groups are open to everyone and are peer-supported meetings. Residents from other Southeast Alaska communities sometimes participate through Polycom videoconferencing technology.
web-posted Wednesday, January 4, 2012
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. and Fri., Noon-1 p.m., Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11 a.m.-Noon, CBJ Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, January 4, 2012
SITKA - The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) Gunaanasti Bill Brady Healing Center hosts two free, weekly support groups for people in Sitka who are in recovery from alcohol and substance abuse. The Yei éek kwa néix ("You are going to get well") support groups meet from 5:30-7 p.m. on Mondays and Friday sat 1204 Seward Ave. The groups are open to everyone and are peer-supported meetings. Residents from other Southeast Alaska communities sometimes participate through Polycom videoconferencing technology.
web-posted Wednesday, December 28, 2011
JUNEAU - All SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) health care facilities will be closed on Jan. 2, 2012. These closures are so SEARHC employees can spend time with their families during the holidays.
web-posted Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Leah J. Cadiente, daughter of Consolacion J. and Jhun B. Cadiente of Ketchikan, alongside approximately 5,500 Sailors attached to USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77) recently returned to their Norfolk, Va., homeport.
web-posted Wednesday, December 28, 2011
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. and Fri., Noon-1 p.m., Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11 a.m.-Noon, CBJ Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, December 28, 2011
This was a big year for Southeast Alaska. As we have done for the past 31 years, the Capital City Weekly's staff and correspondents have worked endlessly to bring you news coverage from every corner of the panhandle.
web-posted Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Okay. Years after a sad shipwreck happens, you, a retired Alaska State Trooper, find out about it and decides it deserves a book. It involves people you know in the tiny fishing town of Pelican in Southeast Alaska where you now live, so how do you handle it?
web-posted Wednesday, December 21, 2011
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. and Fri., Noon-1 p.m., Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11 a.m.-Noon, CBJ Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, December 21, 2011
I was confronted by a surprising fact a few months ago while driving on the Glen Highway. My road trip companion, a friend from Connecticut, remarked that Alaska is probably the last state in America with both towns and vast swaths of land ceded to roadlessness. I couldn't believe it. I'm a proud and eager booster of Alaskan exceptionalism, but I was surely convinced that bastions of roadlessness must have persisted in the far-removed corners of the other 49 states.
web-posted Wednesday, December 21, 2011
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. and Fri., Noon-1 p.m., Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11 a.m.-Noon, CBJ Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, December 21, 2011
JUNEAU - The Institute of the North is hosting a gathering for young Alaskans interested in discussing the state's rich history, vibrant present and thriving future. The Conference of Young Alaskans is modeled after the Alaska Constitutional Convention of 1955 and provides an opportunity for youth ages 16 to 25 to meet and discuss current issues and challenges facing the state. This year's conference will be held in Juneau on Jan. 4-7, 2012.
web-posted Wednesday, December 21, 2011
SITKA - During the sometimes stressful holiday season, the SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) Behavioral Health/Suicide Prevention program and the "1 is 2 Many" regional suicide prevention task force for Southeast Alaska would like to remind people that help is available for those who are stressed out and in need of care.
web-posted Wednesday, December 21, 2011
SITKA - The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) Mt. Edgecumbe High School Student Health Center was awarded a $233,000 grant on Dec. 8 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as part of the Affordable Care Act.
web-posted Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Five Southeast communities will be hosts to the Indigo Trio, a group of musicians made up of students from the Yale School of Music. The group's cellist, Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, is originally from Sitka. Other members are Richard Kahn on piano and Matthew Griffith on clarinet.
web-posted Wednesday, December 21, 2011
West Coast shellfish growers have learned to work around upwellings of corrosive waters and save the lives of their bivalve stocks.
web-posted Wednesday, December 21, 2011
SITKA - Businesses and agencies are invited to participate in the annual job and career fair in Sitka. The World of Work Job and Career Fair will be held Feb. 15-16, 2012.
web-posted Wednesday, December 21, 2011
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. and Fri., Noon-1 p.m., Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11 a.m.-Noon, CBJ Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, December 14, 2011
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. and Fri., Noon-1 p.m., Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11 a.m.-Noon, CBJ Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, December 14, 2011
SITKA - The Sitka Bicycle Friendly Community Coalition will meet at 7 p.m. on Dec. 14 at Harrigan Centennial Hall. Meeting topics include planning for a Sitka Winter Cycling Celebration on Jan. 28, 2012, an update on the state's planned Halibut Point Road construction project and the new bike safety media campaign.
web-posted Wednesday, December 7, 2011
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. and Fri., Noon-1 p.m., Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11 a.m.-Noon, CBJ Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, December 7, 2011
SITKA - Two homes were damaged in a mudslide in Sitka on Dec. 1, and a second mudslide caused some flooding.
web-posted Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Wood has always been required by man's activities in Southeast Alaska.
web-posted Wednesday, December 7, 2011
SITKA - A Mt. Edgecumbe High School senior was among 11 American Native youths being honored by the White House last week through the Champions of Change program. Teressa Baldwin is the founder of an organization working on suicide prevention. As a junior, she was appointed by Gov. Sean Parnell to the Statewide Suicide Prevention Council.
web-posted Wednesday, December 7, 2011
As expected, there will be less Pacific halibut to catch next year for fishermen from California to Alaska. Fishery scientists are recommending a 2012 coastwide halibut catch of 33 million pounds, a 19 percent decrease from the 41 million pound limit for this year.
web-posted Wednesday, December 7, 2011
SITKA - The Sitka Global Warming Group and Sustainable Sitka (SGWG/SS) are currently accepting nominations for their 2012 Sitka Green Business Award program, aimed at promoting local businesses who incorporate green business practices into their daily operations.
web-posted Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Alaska food banks are the beneficiaries of fish taken as bycatch in the Gulf of Alaska thanks to Kodiak fishermen and local processors.
web-posted Wednesday, November 30, 2011
SITKA - The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) Behavioral Health Division recently received a three-year accreditation by CARF International, an international accrediting organization.
web-posted Wednesday, November 30, 2011
On the first Friday of each month, Juneau galleries, museums and shops open their doors for 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, Dec. 2 unless otherwise noted.
web-posted Wednesday, November 30, 2011
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. and Fri., Noon-1 p.m., Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11 a.m.-Noon, CBJ Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, November 30, 2011
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. and Fri., Noon-1 p.m., Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11 a.m.-Noon, CBJ Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, November 30, 2011
SITKA - The Holiday Grind Plus will be held on Dec. 10 at the Sheet Ka Kwann Naa Kahidi Community House. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with music beginning at 7 p.m.
web-posted Wednesday, November 23, 2011
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. and Fri., Noon-1 p.m., Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11 a.m.-Noon, CBJ Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, November 23, 2011
SITKA - The 11th annual Sitka Artisans Market will fill Sitka's Harrigan Centennial Hall from Dec. 2 through Sunday, Dec. 4. The community-enhancing market provides a profitable sales venue for Alaskan artists, fine crafters and manufacturers. It also provides a unique shopping experience for Sitkans and an opportunity for local and regional retailers to discover new Alaskan products for their stores.
web-posted Wednesday, November 16, 2011
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. and Fri., Noon-1 p.m., Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11 a.m.-Noon, CBJ Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, November 16, 2011
The Governor's Annual Awards for Emergency Medical Services were presented at the 36th Annual Governor's Alaska EMS awards banquet on Nov. 12 in Anchorage. The awards were sponsored by the Alaska Council on Emergency Medical Services.
web-posted Wednesday, November 16, 2011
SITKA - The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) Behavioral Health Division will host a community healing circle at 7 p.m. on Nov. 19 in the first-floor conference room at the SEARHC At Kaník Hít Community Health building, 1212 Seward Ave.
web-posted Wednesday, November 16, 2011
The Governor's Annual Awards for Emergency Medical Services were presented at the 36th Annual Governor's Alaska EMS awards banquet on Nov. 12 in Anchorage. The awards were sponsored by the Alaska Council on Emergency Medical Services.
web-posted Wednesday, November 9, 2011
SITKA — All SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) health care facilities will be open regular business hours this year on Friday, Nov. 11, in honor of Veterans Day.
web-posted Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Southeast Support Group Listings
web-posted Wednesday, November 9, 2011
All events will be held at Harrigan Centennial Hall unless otherwise noted. Some activities require advance registration. For more information, visit www.sitkawhalefest.org, email sitkawhalefest@gmail.com or call 747-7964. Advance tickets also available at Old Harbor Books.
web-posted Wednesday, November 9, 2011
FEDS LIKE FISH
web-posted Wednesday, November 9, 2011
SITKA - Every third Thursday in November, tobacco users are encouraged to make a plan and set a date to quit for life, or pledge to be smoke-free for 24 hours as a part of the American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout. This year's Great American Smokeout is on Nov. 17.
web-posted Wednesday, November 9, 2011
JUNEAU - The Huna Heritage Foundation has awarded 35 Huna Totem shareholders and descendants, including eight students from Juneau and seven from Hoonah, with $35,000 in higher education scholarships this month.
web-posted Wednesday, November 9, 2011
All events will be held at Harrigan Centennial Hall unless otherwise noted. Some activities require advance registration. For more information, visit www.sitkawhalefest.org, email sitkawhalefest@gmail.com or call 747-7964. Advance tickets also available at Old Harbor Books.
web-posted Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Southeast Alaska's rich diversity of habitat supports a prodigiou assortment of edible plants that many Alaskans love to harvest, each in turn throughout the growing season as they mature and ripen.
web-posted Wednesday, November 2, 2011
On the first Friday of each month, Juneau galleries, museums and shops open their doors for 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, Nov, 4 unless otherwise noted.
web-posted Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Southeast Alaska's rich diversity of habitat supports a prodigious assortment of edible plants that many Alaskans love to harvest, each in turn throughout the growing season as they mature and ripen.
web-posted Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Southeast Alaska's rich diversity of habitat supports a prodigious assortment of edible plants that many Alaskans love to harvest, each in turn throughout the growing season as they mature and ripen.
web-posted Wednesday, November 2, 2011
On the first Friday of each month, Juneau galleries, museums and shops open their doors for 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, Nov, 4 unless otherwise noted.
web-posted Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Southeast Alaska's rich diversity of habitat supports a prodigious assortment of edible plants that many Alaskans love to harvest, each in turn throughout the growing season as they mature and ripen.
web-posted Wednesday, November 2, 2011
On the first Friday of each month, Juneau galleries, museums and shops open their doors for 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, Nov, 4 unless otherwise noted.
web-posted Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Southeast Alaska's rich diversity of habitat supports a prodigious assortment of edible plants that many Alaskans love to harvest, each in turn throughout the growing season as they mature and ripen.
web-posted Wednesday, October 26, 2011
SITKA - The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) S'áxt' Hít Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital in Sitka is pleased to announce the addition of Alicia "Lisa" Gassman as the hospital's professional services administrator.
web-posted Wednesday, October 26, 2011
State officials say there is "no reason to panic" and that Alaska salmon are "relatively safe" from a deadly fish virus that has appeared for the first time in Pacific waters.
web-posted Wednesday, October 26, 2011
JUNEAU - The Alaska Region National Ocean Sciences Bowl, also called the Alaska Tsunami Ocean Sciences Bowl, is scheduled for March 2-4, 2012, at the Seward High School in Seward. This will mark the 15th annual Alaska Tsunami Ocean Sciences Bowl. The Alaska competition is composed of two separate events: a research project and a quiz bowl in which students answer rapid-fire questions that test their knowledge of ocean science concepts.
web-posted Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Editor's note: This is the final installment of a three-part series about the history of Wrangell's sawmills. See the archives section at www.capitalcityweekly.com for parts one and two of this series. Part two described the events of the sawmills during World War II and shortly after.
web-posted Wednesday, October 26, 2011
SITKA - The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) has hired longtime health care executive Susan B. Labus as its new chief operating officer (COO). Labus replaces Frank Sutton, who retired in August after 40 years with SEARHC. She will start work in early November and her office will be based in Sitka.
web-posted Wednesday, October 19, 2011
web-posted Wednesday, October 19, 2011
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. & Fri., Noon-1 p.m., Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11 a.m.-Noon, CBJ Assembly Chambers.
web-posted Wednesday, October 19, 2011
web-posted Wednesday, October 19, 2011
SITKA - The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) S'áxt' Hít Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital in Sitka is pleased to announce the addition of Ann D. Patterson, M.D., to its medical staff as an anesthesiologist.
web-posted Wednesday, October 19, 2011
SITKA - The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) recently hired Maria Marra to direct the new Performance Improvement Division.
web-posted Wednesday, October 19, 2011
As Alaska cools and hardens, many scientists are reacquainting themselves with their offices. Such is the case for Derek Sikes, the curator of insects at the University of Alaska Museum of the North.
web-posted Wednesday, October 19, 2011
During World War II, products shifted from local-use lumber to filling government contracts for the U. S. military and its bases farther north. In addition, the mill was again supplying spruce for aircraft-grade lumber for that industry. It was reported that the bulk of the aircraft spruce was going to Boeing.
web-posted Wednesday, October 12, 2011
In 1999, Gordon Chew sailed to Alaska from Washington state on his 36-foot wooden sailboat. With his wife and two young children, he visited different communities in Southeast Alaska because the family wanted to settle in the area. On their way to Sitka, they docked in tiny Tenakee Springs to soak in the town's public bathhouse, fed by natural hot springs.
web-posted Wednesday, October 12, 2011
SITKA - The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) Diabetes Program received the American Diabetes Association's John Pipe Voices for Change award for advocacy on Sept. 28, during the 28th annual National Indian Health Board Consumer Conference in Anchorage.
web-posted Wednesday, October 12, 2011
SITKA - Nearly four years ago, Sitka became Alaska's first community to win a Bicycle Friendly Community designation (bronze level) from the League of American Cyclists. The award will expire in the spring, and Sitka's renewal application is due by March 2012.
web-posted Wednesday, October 12, 2011
The persistent rain was wearing thin. Just when it seemed as though it could rain no more, an even larger deluge would spill from the clouds. I actually expected to see cats and dogs.
web-posted Wednesday, October 12, 2011
ACOA/CODA Meeting, Wed. & Fri., Noon-1 p.m., Northern Lights United Church, 400 11th St; Sun. 11 a.m.-Noon, CBJ Assembly Chambers.
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