...the state, lobbying for more financial support.Flat funding from the state means painful cuts as costs rise, said Lon Garrison, a school board member from Sitka and president of the Association of Alaska School Boards."We're at a point now...

...education for next year."I would say I'm a bit baffled when they say 'we want to see more accountability,'" said Lon Garrison, president of the Association of Alaska School Boards.He said schools are improving and questioned the use of an...

...giving them more money going to get more kids to graduate?" he asked. The districts' response is "yes," said Lon Garrison, president of the Sitka School Board and president-elect of the Alaska Association of School Boards. But Garrison...

...first one I'll be back for the next race." Taking second place in the short course race was the double kayak team of Lon Garrison and Peter Gorman, who had a time of 2:38:04. The double kayak team of Tim Fulton of Sitka and Eugene Eichner of...

...Chugach; Sunni Hilts, Kenai Peninsula; Sue Hull, Fairbanks; Roseann Demmert, Klawock; Duane Edelman, Valdez; and Lon Garrison, Sitka. Melvin "Dumma" Otton, Bering Strait, is not pictured.

SITKA - Sitka residents Lon Garrison and Tim Fulton were the first racers to cross the finish line in Saturday's second annual Sitka Sound Ocean Adventure Race...