Posted by Robert Woolsey, KCAW | Apr 26, 2021
Out of the budget for 2021-2022: Funding for Community Schools. The School Board reallocated the Community Schools reserve account to fund the Blatchley swimming pool next year. Blatchley will still see a “cut back” version of Community Schools, with buildings (mainly Blatchley) opened and closed by district staff. (KCAW file photo)
The Sitka School Board has passed a budget for schools next year, balanced by dipping deeper into savings than usual.
The decision to tap savings was recommended by Sitka’s interim superintendent last Wednesday (4-21-21), who also offered a stern warning that the same play wouldn’t be available in future years.
2020: The year we came together, living distantly
Posted by Katherine Rose and Robert Woolsey, KCAW | Dec 31, 2020
Alaska Department of Public Safety Commissioner Amanda Price stands alongside photos of Jessica Baggen taken at her 17th birthday party in 1996. Baggen was murdered later that same evening as she walked home on the Sawmill Creek Road bicycle path. It wasn’t until August, 2020, that “genetic geneaology” was used to identify a suspect living in Arkansas. (DPS image)
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was like the pavement that all other stories rolled on- everything from school closures, the poor fishing season, the non-existent cruise season, to elections. Most news was propelled by the pandemic in some way.