Volunteers gathered on a small-ish triangle of land between Petersburg’s dog park, and Sandy Beach recreation area on New Year’s Day. They were there for the second-annual Petersburg Bike Park work party and barbecue, one year after ground was broken on the project.
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Tundra Health Initiative is a non profit that provides eye care to children in rural Alaska.
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Late this summer two killer whales swam into an ocean-fed lake on Prince of Wales Island and got trapped. The effort to free the whales took a collaboration between scientists and residents of the remote island town of Coffman Cove – with some extra help from the whales’ friends. KFSK’s Hannah Flor has the story.
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The Petersburg School District completed its yearly headcount last month and has nearly 670 students enrolled. That’s about 40 more students than last year.
That’s important because part of the state funding formula is tiered based on enrollment. There’s a funding cliff at 425 students. If the district falls even one student short of that number it will lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in state funding.
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Volunteers and staff of the Sitka Sound Science Center assess a landslide (Photo courtesy of Sitka...
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