Juneau residents can testify on ordinances on Monday’s agenda – as well as on non-agenda items – in person or online before the Assembly votes.

In case you missed it: voter turnout for Day 1 of Fat Bear Week was so huge, it broke their website. Organizers made changes to the voting collection process and re-opened Day 2 with a repeat of Day 1’s polls.

The Kiks.ádi were especially involved in the Battles of Sitka, and texts about the battles say this is their story. But clan members say, while it’s exciting the story is being told, they were never asked for permission to tell this story in the first place.

“It feels good to be dancing again,” Frank Komonaseak said. “I grew up doing it, and I’m proud of who I am.”

An entirely Indigenous cast of singers and dancers will tell the story of the Battles of Sitka while accompanied by an orchestra playing original music.

The first Lingít opera in recorded history debuts this Friday at the Thunder Mountain Middle School auditorium.