There’s likely heating fuel or diesel in the soil. It isn’t clear yet how the cleanup will affect the cost and timeline of the project.
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With in-person markets canceled, Celebration encourages virtual options to sell traditional crafts
While the city will miss out on bed and sales tax revenue this year with Celebration postponed, Native artists who come from all over to sell their traditional handicrafts will feel the financial hit even more.
SHI and UAS partner on immersive scholarship program to train up more Native language educators
If all goes as planned, eight more scholars will selected this summer and enrolled in the fall into the second year of the immersive program. Come 2022, a total of 16 people should be certified by the state to teach Lingít, Xaad Kíl or Sm’algyax.
Otter skin-sewing workshops promote ‘sustainable cottage industry’ in coastal Alaska
Sealaska Heritage Institute aims to expand the practice of traditional Alaska Native skin-sewing with a series of workshops in communities around Southeast Alaska.
Sealaska Heritage Institute begins move into Walter Soboleff Center
COO Lee Kadinger hopes Sealaska Heritage Institute will be relocated by the end of January. The grand opening of the Walter Soboleff Center is May 15.
Sealaska Heritage Institute plans art auction fundraiser for Soboleff Center
Sealaska Heritage still needs to raise less than $2.5 million of the $20 million project cost. The facility will be complete in January 2015.
Feds finalize otter use guidelines
The federal government has finalized new guidelines on the use of sea otters by Alaska Natives.
Tidal flooding won’t delay Soboleff Center construction
Sealaska Heritage CFO and project manager Lee Kadinger says the flooding was anticipated, since that part of downtown Juneau is largely built on fill.
Juneau Assembly hears about capital project funding schedule
When Juneau voters approved an extension of the city’s temporary one-percent sales tax and a $25 million bond proposition earlier this year, it created a dilemma members of the CBJ Assembly are probably happy to have: When to fund the nearly 20 projects identified in both ballot measures? Engineering Director Rorie Watt presented a preliminary…
CBJ plans to exempt Soboleff Center from historic district standards
Officials with Sealaska Heritage Institute and the City and Borough of Juneau are working on a deal to let SHI out of the city’s historic district standards for the proposed Walter Soboleff Center.