20 YEARS AGO

October 2004

Photo caption: Bartender Rita Ledbetter, the only smoker in the bar at the time, has a cigarette Wednesday at the Pioneer Bar. An initiative that would ban smoking in all public spaces was narrowly rejected by Sitka voters.


50 YEARS AGO

October 1974

Alaska Native Brotherhood Camp 1 honored four youth baseball coaches Monday: Jon Calhoun, John Abbott Jr., Louise Nichols and Bill Howey, awarding them Sitka ANB club jackets. Mrs. Nichols was the first woman to coach a male athletic team in Sitka since Ora Kuykendall cranked out champion basketball teams at Sheldon Jackson School in the 1930s through the 1940s.