Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, who launched his moonshot campaign for Alaska governor at home in Sitka nine months ago, held a commanding lead today over his three Republican opponents in Tuesday's general election. With around 100,000 ballots left to be counted, JKT this...
Despite the large number of District 2 voters casting absentee ballots and in early voting, Sitka's two precincts at Centennial Halll were busy in today's general election.
TRICK-OR-TREAT - Students from the Studio of Dance perform in front of St. Michael's Cathedral Saturday. Hundreds of Sitkans braved the weather on Halloween to take part in the annual Downtown Trick or Treat event.Downtown merchants handed out...
FORTRESS MOAT - Sitkans return to the viewing area after placing pumpkins in the habitat area of the Fortress of the Bear Saturday during an open house event. Other Halloween happenings include trick-or-treating at Mt. Edgecumbe Medical Center 5-7...
Mt. Edgecumbe High School Braves volleyball players tested their mettle in a highly competitive volleyball environment last weekend at the 20th Annual Barrow Invitational Tournament in Utqiagvik. The Braves brushed shoulders with the Barrow,...
The USDA Forest Service has closed Harbor Mountain Road and Blue Lake Road to highway vehicles for the season and will re-open them on May 15, or as soon as road conditions allow. Harbor Mountain Road will be open to off-highway vehicles...
Police Blotter Sitka Police Department logged the following calls Tuesday. Tuesday, November 3 At 11:20 a.m. a caller in the Indian River subdivision said she believed she'd heard someone in nearby bushes. An officer drove through the area but...
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20 YEARS AGO
November 2006
Rep. Peggy Wilson won re-election despite losing in Sitka to Jay Stelzenmuller. Sarah Palin turned back Tony Knowles in his bid for a third term, and Don Young was sent back to Congress for an 18th term, defeating Diane Benson. A proposal to tax North Slope oil companies $1 billion a year was shot down.
50 YEARS AGO
November 1976
Laura Higbee, 17, was rescued today from Lodge Island where she had survived over 10 days without food, shelter or any gear after the trolling boat she and her companion, Don Davis, 19, were on sank Oct. 26. ... Miss Higbee was sitting on a log in a cove when Richard Palm, a member of the search team, saw her sitting on a log. Throughout her rescue and reunion with her parents at the hospital, she was calm and rational through suffering from exposure, hunger and extensive cuts and bruises. (Continued on Friday.)
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