A CLIFF NORTH OF LITUYA BAY — Dan Mann hands me a clump of orange dirt the size of an almond. He instructs me to put it in my mouth. “What’s it taste like? Does it crunch? Ash crunches because there’s glass fragments in it.” “It crunches.” “It’s from Mount Edgecumbe,” he says, referring to […]
SITKA, January 8, 2018 — As part of Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital’s (MEH) overarching goal to provide the best care possible to individuals receiving medical care at MEH, the Hospital Nutrition staff, in partnership with NMS, recently began making traditional food options available to inpatients. Providing care means more than traditional medicine, it means comforting those […]
A YouTube video surfaced on the Internet on the Internet on October 29th, showing possible excessive force by officers with the Sitka Police Department. The video shows them repeatedly tazing a Mount Edgecumbe student that was brought in for underage drinking and disorderly conduct charges on September 6th of 2014. The video, uploaded by school […]