Parade and Traditions Mark 2026 Alaska Day
FIELD DAY - Mt. Edgecumbe High School students run under a parachute on Moller Field Saturday night. Tug-of-war and "Balloon Stomp" are other favorite events in the annual morale-building field day. Students on the MEHS Upper Campus Committee...
TEST SPIN - New Archangel Dancers rehearse at Harrigan Centennial Hall Wednesday night. The dancers will perform a show 7 p.m. Friday as part of the Alaska Day Festival. The show also will feature Sitka Studio of Dance and will have tickets...
KEYSTONE KOPS - Alaska State Trooper Bryce Schwartz shakes hands with Laurie Nesheim as this year's contingent of Keystone Kops look on in front of the Prospector statue in front of the Pioneer Home, Sunday morning. Trooper Schwartz swore-in the...
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY - Mt. Edgecumbe High School student Annmarie Sakar performs with fellow members of the Yup'ik Dancers Monday night during the Sheet'ka Indigenous Peoples Day celebration at Harrigan Centennial Hall. Outer Coast students and...
Sitka Police Sitka Police Department logged the following calls Thursday. Thursday, October 15 A woman reported at 8:27 a.m. that her greenhouse had blown away in the 300 block of Peterson Avenue. A woman said she had been scammed and a caller...
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20 YEARS AGO
October 2006
Photo caption: Ashlie Romine watches as Kyleigh McArthur kicks a soccer ball between two posts at Blatchley Middle School during the annual Elks Soccer Shoot. Youths under age 10 took 15 shots at a goal 15 feet away.
50 YEARS AGO
October 1976
A storm-churned sea sank a steel-hulled 44-foot commercial fishing boat in a matter of minutes in Chatham Strait but the two men aboard escaped. Boat owner Jim Cooper and his friend Sam Martin, had no time to grab life jackets or make a distress call but got into the 7-foot Sport Yak as the boat swamped. ... They made it to shore, used the dinghy for shelter and the next morning, using driftwood lumber for paddles, made it across Kelp Bay and headed to a logging operation. They hiked the last three miles, Martin wearing only socks and refusing to share Cooper’s boots ...
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Sport hunters will be able to bait bears in Alaska national preserves, under a final rule the Trump administration announced on Friday. The rule, proposed in March, overturns bans by the Biden and Obama administrations of the practice within National Park Service units. Bear baiting, which involves use of food stockpiles to attract bears that […]
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