In Sitka, water seen as new cash source
JUNEAU, Alaska – East of downtown Sitka, a lone pipe juts out of the ground amid a waterfront industrial park, waiting for the tankers that may someday come and take pure water from Alaska to parch…
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In Sitka, freshwater seen as new cash source
CHRIS STEIN Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska East of downtown Sitka, a lone pipe juts out of the ground amid a waterfront industrial park, waiting for the tankers that may someday come and take pure water from Alaska to parched countries around the world. But other than plans and a pipe, Sitka has little to show for its five-year effort to export billions of gallons of its fresh water to …
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The Sitka Summer Music Festival Celebrates 40 Years
Sitka, AK – – The Sitka Summer Music Festival celebrates its 40th Anniversary this year, June 3-24, 2011. Sitka is situated on remote Baranof Island in the Southeastern portion of the state.Since the Festival is celebrating the 40th season and since Paul Rosenthal, the Festival’s founder and Artistic Director will be retiring, the Festival is marking the occasion with almost twice as many …
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The Worm: The curious misplaced beard with a White House diet
They found bin Laden, but they can’t find this guy?: East Wenatcheeite Gary Weddle, who teaches middle-school science in Ephrata, last week chopped off the beard he’d cultivated since the 9/11 attacks. He’d vowed not to shave until Osama bin Laden was caught or killed, and the end of his long years of whiskerdom echoed throughout the news media. But there’s always some confusion when a little …
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