MUSIC TO VOTE BY – Zuill Bailey, Sitka Music Festival artistic director, plays cello this afternoon in the lobby of Harrigan Centennial Hall as voters and children, including one-year-old Lyla Miller, right, with her mother, Kamilia Burks, file in. Bailey performed for about an hour as scores of Sitkans cast ballots. Both Sitka precincts are in Harrigan Centennial Hall, and will be open till 8 p.m. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)

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20 YEARS AGO

November 2004

Photo caption: Sitka High School senior Matt Way competes in the 100-yard breaststroke at the State High School Swimming and Diving Championships in Anchorage, on the way to capturing his second consecutive state title in the event. (Photo courtesy of Charles Bingham/Juneau Empire)

50 YEARS AGO

November 1974

Photo caption: Henry Davis, SJC director of Native studies, explains one of his Tlinget designs to Dennis Lund of the SJC aquaculture program. Davis will speak Wednesday on “Fisheries and Natural Resources as Factors in Tlinget History.”

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