In the Spotlight: Community Garden Updates

The general message we’ve been hearing from gardeners around town and around the region is that it’s been slow growing this year. That’s certainly been the case with my own little vegetable patch at home. My first seeding of carrots never did anything at all, and the second – once I gave up on the first – took weeks to show signs of life.

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In the Spotlight: The Sitka Violin 2024

In September 2023, Sitkans Marcel and Connie LaPerriere commissioned Daniel Graham, a luthier and art professor at Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky, to make a violin out of wood from Sitka, Alaska, for the Sitka Music Festival.

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In the Spotlight: Youth Advocates of Sitka

It is mid-April and we are meeting in a room with kids’ art projects papering the walls. “We always want to offer art and music, as part of our services, wherever we are,” says Heather Meuret, Executive Director of Youth Advocates of Sitka (YAS).

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In the Spotlight: SAFV – An Epic Tale

Sitkans Against Family Violence started in 1976 as a Crisis Line for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, followed in 1982 by the opening of the first SAFV Shelter on Pioneer Home grounds. The former “nurses’ quarters” could shelter up to 15 women and children.

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In the Spotlight: Sitka WhaleFest

Dr. Lauren Wild was in middle school when she first came to WhaleFest. Like many Sitka kids, she’d spent her childhood exploring tidepools and playing in the stream by her house, yet she didn’t think of herself as a scientist.

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In The Spotlight: BIHA and SCLT

Affordable housing is in short supply across the U.S., and Sitka is no exception. Luckily, local organizations – including Baranof Island Housing Authority (BIHA) and Sitka Community Land Trust (SCLT) – are stepping up to tackle this issue.

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