DEFINITION OF LEARNING – Retiring Keet Gooshi Heen Elementary School teacher Matthew Burrows helps hand out dictionaries to kids this morning in the school multipurpose room. In front, Elias Pfeiffer, 9, left, and Haley Jones, nearly 9, look through their dictionaries to find answers to questions posed to them on index cards. The Sitka Rotary Club annually provides the dictionaries to all third graders. Rotarian Shannon Haugland, who helps organize the effort, pointed out that besides providing definitions, the dictionaries also have maps, sign language letters and other information. (Sentinel Photo)

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October 22, 2021, Police Blotter

Police Blotter

Sitka Police Department logged the following calls as of 8 a.m. today.

October 21

At 3:10 a.m. a citation for having a bear attractant was issued at a home on Davidoff Street.

At 7:42 a.m. a caller said a bear had gotten into a garage in the 2600 block of SMC, causing extensive damage to the door.

At 8:14 a.m. a bear was reported on Lake Street, apparently headed for the woods behind Sitka High. Officers kept watch while it left the area.

An agency asked for a welfare check on a woman who hadn’t been in touch in awhile. Officers were unable to locate her.

At 9:47 a.m. an older yellow Lab was reported in a yard not its own on Price Street. The animal control officer was notified.

At 5:17 p.m. a caller reported a truck in a ditch in the 1300 block of HPR, with an excavator trying to free it. The area was clear when officers arrived.

An incident of drunkenness was reported at a downtown hotel at 5:56 p.m.

Citations for having bear attractants were issued between 10:23 p.m. Thursday and 4:54 a.m. today. The locations were Harbor Mountain Road, the 1700 block of Edgecumbe Drive, the 2000 block of Cascade Creek Road, Peter Simpson Road, and Sharon Drive.

October 22

At 7:20 a.m. trash was reported scattered on Kincaid Street. It had been cleaned up by the time officers arrived.

 

Emergency Calls

Sitka Fire Department received six ambulance calls Thursday and one early this morning.

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May 2004

A measure raising property taxes to fund capital expense at Sitka Community Hospital failed, 1,053 to 1,248  in the May 4 special city election.


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May 1974

From Sitka 20 Years Ago, 1954: Worry over the condition of Vern “Porky” McGraw for his forthcoming heavyweight championship bout with Harry “The Man” Bartels was dispelled today by his manager, Clem “Mighty” Pace, when he told of the amount of exercise Porky is getting.

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