Winter ferry schedule better than last year

This winter’s Alaska Marine Highway schedule offers more sailings than the previous season’s. It also eliminates five-week service gaps for some communities.
A baggage cart, nicknamed Starfish, leaves the Chenega in Sitka on Sept. 3, 2015. The fast ferry is tied up for the rest of this fiscal year. (Photo by Ed Schoenfeld, CoastAlaska News – Juneau)The schedule, released Aug. 17, shows a 6 percent increase in sailings. That’s the difference between last season’s 166