We are currently looking to fill our Program Manager for Technical Assistance position, which provides one-on-one business coaching and supports entrepreneurial programs and loan applications. If you or someone you know is interested in working for Spruce Root, visit spruceroot.org/careers.

Until this position is filled, we are under limited capacity to serve clients. We encourage clients to fill out our intake application and we will schedule coaching sessions as we can. Priority will be given to entrepreneurs seeking a loan from Spruce Root.

During a lower-than-usual tide this summer, the rocks on the beach were exposed on Southeast Alaska’s Chichagof Island. Ralph Wolfe went down to the shore to help young people — participants in Hoonah Culture Camp — harvest traditional Alaska Native subsistence foods. Together, they pried tasty mollusks, called gumboots, off rocks and filled plastic buckets with slick bull-kelp and bright green sea asparagus.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has made its final funding decisions in a $25 million program to support local organizations in Southeast Alaska, officials said.