Wrangell high school and middle school students will be offered a new language and cultural class this coming school year.
Education
Girl Scouts camp promotes leadership skills
Girl Scouts of Alaska came to Petersburg last week to hold a weeklong day camp. Girls ages kindergarten through junior high participated in the events, many of which happened outdoors. A few dozen girls are in a circle outside the Rae Stedman Elementary School. They’re singing songs and dancing around on top of the gray…
Summer camp students complete skeletal rearticulation of sea lion
Students participating in Sitka Sound Science Center’s summer camp week, aptly named “Dem Bones,” recently finished assembling the skeleton of a California sea lion.
X-rays reveal hidden portrait under painting by Edgar Degas
A team of researchers in Australia used a special mapping technique to expose a striking painting of another woman under the French Impressionist’s Portrait of a Woman.
3 of 5 incumbents not seeking reelection to Juneau Assembly, school board
Juneau’s nonpartisan municipal elections are Oct. 4.
YCC: Introducing Alaskan kids to the Aleutians and careers with FWS
Youth Conservation Corps introduces high school students to a stretch of protected land they’ve grown up near, but may not even know exists — all in the hopes that someday these young Alaskans will become its next stewards.
Bringing UA under single accreditation not viable option, study finds
University of Alaska president Jim Johnsen is looking into cost savings options to bring all three main campuses under one accreditation.
Transgender student temporarily blocked by U.S. Supreme Court from using male bathroom
The move by the Supreme Court halts activity in the case, but doesn’t necessarily mean the court will ultimately take up the case involving a high school student in Virginia.
Haines police chief puts school resource officer idea on hold
Haines police chief Heath Scott wants to expand the four-officer department.
Placing a school resource officer at Haines School was a priority for him, at first. Instead he thinks it will be something to consider in the future.
Formline allows children to express themselves with traditional artform
The Alaska Native Sisterhood Association – or ANSA – wrapped up a three-day Native art class for Wrangell children Aug. 3. About 20 kids gathered to learn the traditional artform known as formline, the art of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian tribes of Southeast Alaska.