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Hollywood preps for ‘Star Wars Episode 7’ opening

BY DERRIK J. LANG THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Hollywood is preparing for what could be the…

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Juneau Community Foundation and City and Borough Of Juneau offer joint social service grant funding opportunity

The Juneau Community Foundation and the City and Borough of Juneau recently formed a partnership to oversee allocation…

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Community potluck and film fundraiser set for Wednesday

]A community potluck and fundraiser will take place on Wednesday, Dec. 16 from 5-8 p.m. at St. Ann’s…

Alaskan authors, from left, Dana Stabenow, John Straley, Emily Wall, Leigh Newman, Don Rearden, Seth Kantner, and visiting keynote speaker Mary Roach stand in front of a newly completed cabin at the Alderworks Alaska Writers & Artists Retreat in Dyea during the Northwords Writers Symposium in May 2015. Not shown is Northwords faculty member Christine Byl. In the background are Skagway band Skagway band Windy Valley Boys.

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North Words Writers Symposium scheduled for May 25-28

For the Capital City Weekly SKAGWAY — After years of pandering, fawning, and badgering from adoring Alaska readers,…

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Goodwin to lead “List and LItany” class in Juneau and Sitka this week

49 Writers is hosting a visit from poet Caroline Goodwin this week as part of its statewide outreach…

Patterns in the sand dunes in Death Valley National Park, November 2015.

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Art in Unusual Places

The Capital City Weekly welcomes reader-submitted images of art in unusual or unexpected places. Photographers of all levels…

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DIPAC thanks community volunteers

DIPAC would like to thank the special volunteers this last summer and fall who contributed greatly in helping…

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Community potluck and film fundraiser

A community potluck and fundraiser will take place on Wednesday, Dec. 16 from 5-8 p.m. at St. Ann’s…

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Healing through breath

You are a healer. You are a more powerful force in the world than you have been led…

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Recent births

Recent births at Bartlett Regional Hospital • A daughter, Jasmine LovieAnn Oree, weighing 8 lbs. 7 oz., was…

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Annual advent lunch

The Cooperative Church Council is hosting its annual Advent Luncheon on Thursday, Dec. 17 at noon in the…

Maggie Elliott representing Alaskan Dames and Hair by Tenaya Sanders-Rouget

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Alaska Dames fashion show raised money for JAMHI

Alaskan Dames raised $3,300 for the Juneau Alliance for Mental Health from a local fashion show they hosted…

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A big thank you to Juneau for drag show success

Last Saturday, about 150 people crammed into the Rendezvous to watch nine local drag queens and drag kings…

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JYS thanks Sealaska for donation

Juneau Youth Services wants to thank Sealaska for, once again, making a generous donation to the Miller House…

Juneau Community Foundation executive director Amy Skilbred, second from left, stands with Tom Gill, second from right, and Jim Carroll, right, of the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department after establishing the JVFD's Youth Activities Fund through the foundation. Also shown are JCF board members Reed Stoops, center, and Bob Storer, left.

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Juneau Volunteer Fire Department to host free swims

The Juneau Volunteer Fire Department recently partnered with the Juneau Community Foundation to establish the Juneau Volunteer Firefighters’…

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Juneau Community Foundation announces grants through Great Blue Heron Fund

JUNEAU – The Juneau Community Foundation recently announced $22,000 in grants to local organizations through its donor-advised Great…

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Light Flights over Juneau

Coastal Helicopters and the Juneau Mendenhall Flying Lions Club have scheduled their Light Flights fundraiser to take place…

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Senior menu

Juneau Senior Center Menu Monday, Dec. 14 Beef Vegetable Soup Cheese Sandwich Orange from Santa Tuesday, Dec. 15…

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Coeur Alaska presents $25,000 to UNSEAK for reading tutor program

In 2012, United Way of Southeast Alaska partnered with Coeur Alaska and the Juneau School District in order…

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Karin Bodony at the site of an obsidian tool discovery in the Nogahabara Dunes in 2002.

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Mystery of the glass tool kit in the sand

From space, the Nogahabara Dunes are a splotch of blond sand about six miles in diameter surrounded by…