SWEET FUNDRAISER - Sitkans eat dinner and look over auction items set out on tables at ANB Founders Hall Sunday during the second annual Sitkans Against Family Violence Fall Family Dinner & Dessert Auction. Musicians played on stage during the...
CONTRIBUTION TO SCIENCE - At left marine biologist and former Sitkan Jan Straley listens to her son, Finn, pictured at right with John Straley, speak on stage at Harrigan Centennial Hall Saturday during the Whalefest symposium. Her husband, John,...
WHALE OF A TIME - Abigail Kokai, right, of Homer, sells handmade plush toys at her booth in the Market at Whalefest in Harrigan Centennial Hall this afternoon. The annual three-day science symposium and related events began today. This year’s...
BOO AND BOOKS - Ione Woolsey, 4, looks up while working a ball of home-made play dough at Sitka Public Library Saturday morning during the Babies and Books Trick or Read event. Costumed children played at several activities stations set up around...
The annual Whalefest run drew more than 100 runners and walkers to finish 10k and 5k running courses, or a two-mile untimed walk. The out-and-back courses took participants from Whale Park, to various turnaround points, with everyone...
Sitka Tribe of Alaska opened Native American Heritage Month celebrations last Tuesday with a presentation by Aandaxjoon Sabena Allen, PhD, on how the Tlingit people are especially able to address the effects of climate change, as they have tended...
Police Blotter Sitka Police Department logged the following calls Monday. Monday, November 9 At 6:47 a.m. a caller said a tree had fallen onto a house, blocking a vehicle in the driveway. Two people who were in the house weren't injured. At 7...
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20 YEARS AGO
November 2006
Sitka will observe Veterans Day Saturday, Nov. 11, with a breakfast at the Elks Lodge; a parade at 11 a.m. led by the American Legion; and the annual Community Veterans Banquet, sponsored by the Alaska Native Brotherhood, at Centennial Hall to honor all veterans. A ham dinner will be served and the Sitka Community Band will perform. All are welcome.
50 YEARS AGO
November 1976
Baranof Little Theatre is bringing “The Music Man” to town. Performances will be next weekend at Centennial Hall. ... Jan Craddick is the able and experienced stage director, Jim Hope is musical director and Karen Grussendorf is choreographer.
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