WORD BY WORD - Debbie Miller, right, and other members of the Sitka Rotary Club help third-graders at Keet Gooshi Heen Elementary School look up answers to questions posed on index cards Monday. The Rotary Club for several years has been providing...
Lake Street will reopen by October 28, after contractors finish the replacement of underground infrastructure, the city public works department announced. “The contractor would like to do it as quickly as they can,” said city engineer Mike...
ALASKA DAY FESTIVAL - The stars and stripes are raised on Castle Hill during the reenactment of the 1867 Transfer Ceremony as part of the Alaska Day Festival Sunday. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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...
Sitka High boys and girls racked up a number of personal and season’s best times at their only home meet last weekend at the Mt. Edgecumbe Aquatic Center. Sitka times and places are below; a story on the meet was in Tuesday’s Sentinel. SB stands...
RETIREMENT EVENT – A retirement open house for Postmaster Celia Dumag will be held 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday, her last day on the job. The post office will offer cake and time for people to stop by to say a few words to the retiring postmaster....
Police Blotter Sitka Police Department logged the following calls on Wednesday. Police talked to a man at Eliason Harbor about warrants issued against him. He said his boat was currently sinking but he promised to turn himself in by Sunday. Cat...
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20 YEARS AGO
October 2006
Shee Atika Inc.’s plans for a new subdivision on Alice Loop Road has prompted concerns that the new development would block public access to World War II historic sites and “possibly threaten the actual integrity of these historically significant structures.”
50 YEARS AGO
October 1976
Members of the 4th Battalion 9th Infantry consider the Sitka Alaska Day visit an honor, staff directives show. The men were told to take such items as “starched and pressed” travel clothes and uniforms with “spit-shined jump boots, clean pistol belt and shined mountain boots.”
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