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2024 Sitka Community Food Assessment looks at a decade of changes
Ten years ago several agencies in Sitka collaborated on a Community Food Assessment to examine food security issues in the area. This year, Transition Sitka and the Sitka Local Foods Network are ...
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With ‘Big Breath In,’ author John Straley risks sleeping on the couch — forever
John Straley's latest novel 'Big Breath In' is a departure from his typical crime stories. With a main character based on his ...
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Despite permitting delays, Sitka officials break ground on new marine haulout
Sitka has ceremonially broken ground on a new marine haulout at its industrial park. The actual groundbreaking has been held up by environmental permitting, but city officials are optimistic that the ...
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Services for veterans available through SAIL’s VOICE program
Southeast Alaska Independent Living offers a range of services for veterans. "VOICE" is a way for veterans to maintain ...
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ANB and ANS to host monthly ‘Winter’s Bone’ flea market fundraiser
This winter, the Alaska Native Brotherhood and Alaska Native Sisterhood in Sitka will host a new monthly indoor flea market.
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Business survey adds up losses during Sitka’s summer internet outage
The Cable Innovator in Salisbury Sound in September, 2024. This was the second time in eight years the undersea fiber optic ...
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Investigation finds crash of an Air Station Sitka helicopter was ‘controlled flight into terrain’
CG6016 came to rest inverted on the beach on Read Island, after striking the trees and falling approximately 75 feet, during a rescue mission on the night of November 13, 2023. An official MII (Major ...
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One year after Air Station Sitka crash, assessing risk remains ‘more art than science’
CG6016 was salvaged following the crash on Read Island on November 13, 2023, and then shipped to North Carolina for examination. Its mission to aid the fishing vessel Lydia Marie was considered medium ...
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Sitka Coast Guard crew rescues three fishermen west of Yakutat
A Sitka Coast Guard helicopter crew rescued three fishermen who abandoned ship near Kayak Island in the Gulf of Alaska on Sunday (11-10-24). The 58-foot longliner Tsiu called the Coast Guard for help ...
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New ‘greenhouse gas inventory’ a first step in charting Sitka’s future in renewable energy
Bri Gabel is Sitka’s sustainability coordinator, Andrea Mott is a research engineer with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Sitkans will be able to view and comment on a new Greenhouse Gas ...