FIFTH OPENING – The Sitka seine boats Hukilau and Rose Lee pump herring aboard this afternoon at the end of Deep Inlet during the fifth opening in the Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery. The opening was being held in two locations beginning at 11 a.m. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
By GARLAND KENNEDY
Sentinel Staff Writer
The future of management and operations at the Perform [ ... ]
By Sentinel Staff
The Sitka Sound commercial herring sac roe fishery continued today with open [ ... ]
By GARLAND KENNEDY
Sentinel Sports Editor
After storming into the state 3A boys basketball brac [ ... ]
By Sentinel Staff
The Queen Bees’ spotless season record ended Tuesday night with a 2-1 loss [ ... ]
By SHIRLEY SNEVE
Indian Country Today
A major renovation at an Alaska museum to attract tourist [ ... ]
By CLAIRE STREMPLE
Alaska Beacon
A presentation about a jump in the number of inmate deaths in [ ... ]
By NATHANIEL HERZ
Northern Journal
Tribal and environmental advocates calling for a crackdown o [ ... ]
Police Blotter
Sitka police received the following calls by 8 a.m. today:
March 26
At 2:10 p.m. a man e [ ... ]
Big Rigs Sought
For April 13
The 3 to 5 Preschool’s spring fundraiser and Big Rig event is happening [ ... ]
By SHANNON HAUGLAND
Sentinel Staff Writer
The city’s reassessment of taxable real estate, alo [ ... ]
By Sentinel Staff
The third opening in this year’s Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery was held Mon [ ... ]
By GARLAND KENNEDY
Sentinel Sports Editor
Sitka High’s Lady Wolves bounced back from an openi [ ... ]
By GARLAND KENNEDY
Sentinel ports Editor
Competing in the state 3A basketball tournament in Anc [ ... ]
By Sentinel Staff
Playing in a competitive division City League volleyball game Monday evening [ ... ]
By JAMES BROOKS
Alaska Beacon
A bill that passed the Alaska House of Representatives on Monday [ ... ]
By NATHANIEL HERZ
Northern Journal
Gus Schumacher, the Anchorage Olympic cross-country skier, a [ ... ]
By CLAIRE STREMPLE
Alaska Beacon
Alaska’s rural schools are on track to access faster interne [ ... ]
By YERETH ROSEN
Alaska Beacon
In the language of the Gwich’in people of northeastern Alaska, [ ... ]
Police Blotter
Sitka police received the following calls by 8 a.m. today:
March 25
At 7:48 a.m. a calle [ ... ]
Vietnam-Era Vets
Invited to Lunch,
Commemoration
American Legion Post 13 will host a luncheon 1-3 p.m. [ ... ]
By GARLAND KENNEDY
Sentinel Staff Writer
The 2024 Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery got under [ ... ]
By SHANNON HAUGLAND
Sentinel Staff Writer
The Assembly will start the annual process of determi [ ... ]
By Sentinel Staff
Competing in the 3A state championship title basketball game Saturday, the M [ ... ]
By Sentinel Staff
Playing through the afternoon Sunday, City League volleyball teams faced off [ ... ]
Daily Sitka Sentinel
January 12, 2017 Community Happenings
Alaska Day Festival
Planners to Meet
Coordinators for Sitka’s 2017 October Alaska Day Festival will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 17, at Harrigan Centennial Hall.
On the agenda are election of trustees and proposals for activities marking the sesquicentennial (150th anniversary) of the Treaty of Cession of 1867 between Russia and the United States transferring Russian claim in Alaska.
The Alaska Day Committee will meet each following third Tuesday of the month.
Persons having comments about Festival activities or new volunteers are invited to attend the meetings or contact Chairman Ted Allio at 747-5124 or Vice Chair Steve Dalquist at 752-0750.
Library to Host
Program on Walk
Sitka Public Library is inviting the public to hear five Sitkans talk about their 2000 km walk last spring through England, France, Switzerland and Italy. The program will be 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26.
Julien Naylor, Bridget Kauffman, Ted Laufenberg, Karen Hegyi and Connie Kreiss all walked part or all of the Via Francigena, the historic pilgrimage trail from Canterbury to Rome. They will talk about the beauties and the challenges of this long walk.
For further information, contact Robb Farmer at (907) 747-8708 or robb.farmer@cityofsitka.org.
Fiber Friends Meets
Fiber Friends will meet noon Saturday, Jan 21, in the Gus Adams room in the Sitka Library. All those interested in weaving, spinning, dying or other fiber related projects are welcome. For additional information phone Alice at 747-3931.
4th Grade Choir
To Give Concert
The 4th Grade Choir concert will be 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, in the Keet Gooshi Heen multipurpose room.
The young musicians have been working together since September during lunch recesses to learn the music they will share. Admission is free and open to the public.
Harry Potter Night
Planned at Library
Sitka Public Library is inviting children to “wear your most magical outfit and test your knowledge” at Harry Potter Book Night 6-8 p.m. Feb. 2.
“Travel to the magical world of Harry Potter, discover where your wizardly talents will take you, participate in a quidditch tournament and learn more about the professors of Hogwarts,” the library said.
This program is for children ages 8 to 11. Registration is required and space is limited. For more information call the library at 747 8708.¨
Local Women
To Have Own
March Jan. 21
A local Women’s March will be held in Sitka in solidarity with the National Women’s March on Washington, D.C., Saturday, Jan. 21.
The march will start at 3 p.m. at Crescent Harbor, go down Lincoln Street, around St. Michael’s Cathedral and back to St. Peter’s Episcopal Church See House for refreshments and information tables where people can find out about local, regional and national organizations working to protect the rights of all people, all religions, the earth and the environment.
Contact Kathy for more information 738-2393. The event also is on Facebook at Women’s March on Sitka - Alaska style.
Sitkan to Give
Seminar On
Natural History
At the next Natural History seminar, Matt Goff will present a program on “Sitka Nature: Curiosity and Community,” It will be 7:30 p.m. Jan. 19 in room 229 at UAS.
Goff was born and raised in Sitka but it was only when he was an adult that he really started taking an interest in the natural world that is so accessible in Sitka. With his curiosity sparked by photography, he started on a self-described “somewhat obsessive” journey to learn and document as much as he could of the natural history of the area. Motivated by curiosity and supported by other nature enthusiasts, he has documented well over 1,000 species around Sitka.
In this presentation he will share some of the observations, questions, projects, and discoveries he’s encountered. He will also introduce the Sitka Community Big Year Project, an effort he hopes many Sitkans will join to document and share the rich environment that surrounds Sitka.
The Natural History seminar series is supported by a grant from the Sitka Permanent Charitable Trust to the Sitka Sound Science Center and by the University of Alaska Southeast, National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service.
Those with questions may contact Kitty LaBounty at 747-9432.
Life Drawing
Class for Adults
Set at Arts Camp
A life drawing class for adults will be held 6-8:30 p.m. Thursdays from Jan.19 to Feb. 9.
Taught by Heather Bauscher, it will be held at the Yaw Arts Center at the Sitka Fine Arts Camp. The cost is $105 plus tax.
“It’s a great opportunity to work from a live model,” a spokesperson said. “All abilities welcome, beginners through established artists, traditional instruction ranging from realism to abstraction.”
Registration is at fineartscamp.org or call 907-747-3085.
Broadway Night
Lights Up Jan. 27
Sitka Community Theater will present Broadway Night 6:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27, at Odess Theater on the Sitka Fine Arts Camp campus.
The event is a fundraiser featuring local celebrities singing Broadway show tunes in a cabaret-like setting, with wine and hors d’oeuvres.
Andrew Hames is the emcee for the program, which also features tunes sung by such local luminaries as Hames, Rhiannon Guevin, Tonia Rioux, Zeke Blackwell, Tracy Turner and the Young Performers Theater cast of “Oliver!”
Tickets are $40 and include wine and hors d’oeuvres, and are available starting Jan. 13 at Old Harbor Books.
Doors open at 6 p.m. Catering is by the Nugget Restaurant. Parking is at the Hames Center.
Those with questions may call 738-0602.
SCT is a project of the Greater Sitka Arts Council.
Login Form
20 YEARS AGO
March 2004
Matthew C. Hunter of Sitka recently returned from Cuba as part of a St. Olaf College International and Off-Campus Studies program. Hunter, a junior physics major at St. Olaf College, is the son of Robert and Kim Hunter of Sitka.
50 YEARS AGO
March 1974
Eighth graders have returned from a visit to Juneau to see the Legislature. They had worked for it since Christmas vacation ... Clarice Johnson’s idea of a “White Elephant” sales was chosen as the best money-maker; Joe Roth won the political cartoon assignment; highest government test scorers were Ken Armstrong, Joanna Hearn, Linda Montgomery, Lisa Henry, Calvin Taylor and David Licari .....