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alaskapublic.org | Katherine Rose |Robert Woolsey
Sitka voters have overwhelmingly rejected a ballot measure that would have capped the number of cruise visitors beginning next year. Wednesday’s special election brought out almost 3,000 voters, 73% of whom rejected the proposition. This was the third largest turnout for any municipal election in Sitka since 2018. Sitka Sound Cruise Terminal owner Chris McGraw led the opposition to the proposition.
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1 week ago |
ktoo.org | Robert Woolsey |Katherine Rose
Sitka voters have overwhelmingly rejected a ballot measure that would have capped the number of cruise visitors beginning next year. Wednesday’s special election brought out almost 3,000 voters, 73% of whom rejected the proposition. This was the third largest turnout for any municipal election in Sitka since 2018. Sitka Sound Cruise Terminal owner Chris McGraw led the opposition to the proposition.
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1 week ago |
kcaw.org | Robert Woolsey
He’s baaaack. Caleb Gray is among the best of the relatively youthful anglers who have dominated the Sitka Salmon Derby in recent years. If his 34-pound king stays at the top of the leader board next weekend, he’ll take the $20,000 cash prize. (SSA photo)12-year old Caleb Gray rocketed to first place on Memorial Day afternoon, turning in a king that bent the scales at 34 pounds – over two pounds ahead of his closest competitor.
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2 weeks ago |
kcaw.org | Robert Woolsey
Roger and Mary Hames at their corporate offices in Sitka. Roger Hames says the prospect of selling Sea Mart and the company’s other related businesses first crossed his mind in 2009, when Carolyn Hammack – who built Lakeside Grocery shortly after Sea Mart opened – sold her store to the Alaska Commercial Company. Hammock (who died in 2014) was a few years older than Hames, but he realized that his own retirement was coming, sooner or later. (Hames Corp.
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3 weeks ago |
kcaw.org | Robert Woolsey
Eric Jordan examines the underside of his troller, the I Gotta, from the bow of a Harbor Department skiff. Jordan volunteered his boat to test the slings on Sitka’s new Travelift, which is the essential piece of Phase I of a publicly-owned boat yard at the Gary Paxton Industrial Park. Further work is needed before boats can routinely use the yard however: A washdown pad will not be installed and operational until late summer.
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Following the appointment of Blossom Twitchell and Andrew Hames to a pair of vacant seats, the Sitka School Board reorganized: Amy Morrison was selected as board president; Eric Van Cise is the vice-president; and Paul Rioux is the clerk.

The Sitka School Board has appointed Blossom Twitchell to a vacant seat on the board on one ballot. Andrew Hames was appointed to the second seat on the third ballot. Both will serve until the municipal election on October 6.

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