Kathleen Wayne has taken the reins from former music director Leslie Wood to lead the Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) Juneau… Continue reading
In late March in Sitka, you never know what the weather will be. It can squall one moment, hail the next, and then the sky… Continue reading
Accounts of the burning and sinking of the Holland America cruise ship Prinsendam in the Gulf of Alaska in the fall of 1980 all mention… Continue reading
The submission guidelines for “Tidal Echoes,” the literary and arts journal sponsored by the University of Alaska Southeast, are simple and few: live in Southeast… Continue reading
I crouch down on the beach beside Grandson Jonah. A field of green clumps of grass-like plants we call goose tongue surrounds us. In Tlingit… Continue reading
Seattle-based Sound Publishing, Inc., announced today its purchase of the Capital City Weekly and the Juneau Empire from GateHouse Media. Sound Publishing President Gloria Fletcher… Continue reading
University of Alaska Southeast professors Sanjay Pyare, Ph.D., and Dr. Heidi Pearson have been awarded Fulbright Scholar awards. Pyare was awarded to expand his research… Continue reading
Growing up and living in Juneau all of my life, I’m often not aware of change until I revisit the places I’ve been before. The… Continue reading
The Tongass Democrats have named a new chairman. On April 5, Edric Carrillo replaced longtime chair Nancy Courtney. Also at the meeting, Democrats elected Brenda… Continue reading
Each of our children and grandchildren are a special gift. We love them for who they are, and taught them about faith and life. Each… Continue reading
The Juneau Arts & Humanities Council is very honored and grateful to have been able to co-produce Aan Yátx’u Sáani: Noble People of the Land… Continue reading
KANUTI HOT SPRINGS — After a few hours of skiing through deep snow, Forest Wagner and I smelled a tuna sandwich. We knew we were… Continue reading
A few weeks ago I saw in the Prince of Wales Island Post that Island Air Express will begin flying from the Klawock Airport to… Continue reading
Sitting down to a hot meal of baked salmon, freshly caught by fellow students in nearby Sitka Sound is part of the plan — and… Continue reading
Raincounty Flyfishers Meeting, Wednesday, April 11, 7 p.m., Thunder Mountain High School library. George Elgee will present a slide show on his trip to Greenland… Continue reading
One year we lived in the only remaining, standing building in the old, burned cannery where I grew up. We were fixing up our floathouse… Continue reading
“This is the expectation, man. For steelhead fishing in late March, this is what it’s about.” It was around noon and Rob was at a… Continue reading
There’s no music more real than the kind found at a real live folk festival. It’s the kind of place where genuineness is more valued… Continue reading
Folk music is a wide umbrella covering an enormous amount of genres and subgenres, so it’s of no small surprise that the answer musicians give… Continue reading
Fifty years ago this spring, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered. A jury convicted a white racist of the crime. Almost a year later,… Continue reading
