TRUCK FIRE – Firefighters knock down a fire in a Ford Explorer truck in Arrowhead Trailer Park in the 1200 block of Sawmill Creek Road Saturday evening. One person received fire-related injuries and was taken to the hospital, Sitka Fire Department Chief Craig Warren said, and the truck was considered a total loss. The cause of the fire is under investigation, Warren said. The fire hall received the call about the fire at 5:33 p.m., and one fire engine with eight firefighters and an ambulance were dispatched, he said. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
By YERETH ROSEN
Alaska Beacon
The federal government owes Alaska more than $700 billion in comp [ ... ]
By CLAIRE STREMPLE
Alaska Beacon
Sylvester Byrd Jr. served nearly three decades in prison for a [ ... ]
By Sentinel Staff
Competing Sunday in a City League volleyball match, a short-handed Yellow Je [ ... ]
Heritage, Cultural
Tourism Event
Here this Week
The ninth annual Heritage and Cultural Tourism Conferen [ ... ]
Sitka police received the following calls by 8 a.m. today:
March 15
At 4:30 a.m. a fender bender invol [ ... ]
By SHANNON HAUGLAND
Sentinel Staff Writer
Rep. Rebecca Himschoot and School Board President Tri [ ... ]
By SHANNON HAUGLAND
Sentinel Staff Writer
With $20 million needed to complete the Katlian Bay r [ ... ]
By GARLAND KENNEDY
Sentinel Staff Writer
A historically high herring return is forecast for Sit [ ... ]
By GARLAND KENNEDY
Sentinel Staff Writer
After a year-long vacancy in the Sitka Superior Court [ ... ]
By JAMES BROOKS
Alaska Beacon
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy, following through on an ultimatum, vet [ ... ]
By YERETH ROSEN
Alaska Beacon
For many of the women considered to be at high risk for breast ca [ ... ]
Climate Connection -- Cruise Tourism Choices
Citizen groups in many port cities have mobilized to pre [ ... ]
Sitka police received the following calls by 8 a.m. today:
March 14
An Austin Street resident said a c [ ... ]
By SHANNON HAUGLAND
Sentinel Staff Writer
The Sitka Homeless Coalition and St. Michael’s Sist [ ... ]
By GARLAND KENNEDY
Sentinel Staff Writer
Sitka’s annual Heritage and Cultural Tourism Confere [ ... ]
By CLAIRE STREMPLE
Alaska Beacon
Language matters, the House agreed on Wednesday, when it advan [ ... ]
By JAMES BROOKS
Alaska Beacon
A new state revenue forecast that includes modestly higher oil pr [ ... ]
Sitka police received the following calls by 8 a.m. today:
March 13
Vehicles left parked at Sealing Co [ ... ]
SFS, Coliseum
To Show 15 Shorts
The Sitka Film Society and Coliseum Theater will present the Oscar Sho [ ... ]
By SHANNON HAUGLAND
Sentinel Staff Writer
Sitka Tribe of Alaska told the Assembly Tuesday that [ ... ]
By SHANNON HAUGLAND
Sentinel Staff Writer
Among proposals presented to the Assembly Tuesday for [ ... ]
By GARLAND KENNEDY
Sentinel Staff Writer
The public is invited to a discussion Thursday on the [ ... ]
By BRYDEN SWEENEY-TAYLOR
Outer Coast executive director
In 1986, two linguists, Ron and Suzie Scollon, [ ... ]
Vigil on Saturday
At Roundabout
Community members are invited to attend the weekly Voices for Peace vi [ ... ]
Daily Sitka Sentinel
Judge: Won’t Order State To Reprint 800K Ballots
By MARK THIESSEN
The Associated Press
ANCHORAGE (AP) — A judge decided today not to force the state of Alaska to reprint 800,000 ballots after a candidate complained about how some candidates were listed.
Superior Court Judge Jennifer Henderson said Alyse Galvin, a nonpartisan candidate who won the Democratic primary in the U.S. House race, raised legitimate concerns but the harm to the state could be not fully mitigated or accounted for by approving Galvin’s request for a temporary injunction.
In preparing the ballots, election officials dropped the designator for undeclared or nonpartisan candidates if they ran and won the nomination in the Democratic primary. Instead, they are now listed on the ballots as “Democratic nominee.”
Galvin sued over the change, saying an “N” for non-partisan after her name on the ballot is a defining characteristic for her.
Henderson made her ruling after hearing oral arguments. The Alaska Supreme Court has indicated it was prepared to hear an appeal later in the day if one was filed.
A judge previously ordered the state to stop printing ballots Thursday, but the work had already been done. Lawyers for Galvin and the state were told to submit more briefings ahead of Friday’s hearing.
The state said it must mail overseas absentee ballots by 3 p.m. Friday to meet a federal deadline, though it could have applied for an extension.
The state has “created a tough situation for themselves by printing thousands of improperly altered ballots before posting the sample ballot for candidate and public review,” Galvin wrote in court documents. “But the hard work that it will take to correct the situation does not justify allowing this wrong to go uncorrected. Too much is at stake,”
The state counters that it’s not misleading to describe Galvin as the Democratic nominee. “Notably, the ballot does not identify her as a “Democrat,’” state attorneys wrote.
Login Form
20 YEARS AGO
March 2004
Businesses using the Centennial Hall parking lot testified Tuesday against a proposal to charge them rent in addition to the $200 annual permit fee. City Administrator Hugh Bevan made the proposal in response to the Assembly’s direction to Centennial Hall manager Don Kluting to try to close the $340,000 gap between building revenues and operational costs.
50 YEARS AGO
March 1974
Alaska Native Brotherhood Grand President William S. Paul Sr. will be special guest and speaker at the local ANB, Alaska Native Sisterhood Founders Day program Monday at the ANB Hall.