LOCAL BOUNTY – Scores of Sitkans fill Harrigan Centennial Hall Sunday during the annual Sitka Conservation Society Wild Foods Potluck and annual meeting. The event included several buffet tables of locally harvested meat and produce. Posters honoring longtime SCS contributors Tad Fujioka, Alice Johnstone, Marcel LaParriere and Chuck Miller, who passed away this year, were on display at the event. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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July 27, 2022, Police Blotter
Sitka Police Department logged the following calls as of 8 a.m. today.
July 26
At 5:42 a.m. a caller said an intoxicated crew member was refusing to leave a boat at ANB Harbor. Officers took the crew member to another location.
A liquor store reported having a video of someone stealing a bottle of alcohol. Police are investigating.
At 1:42 p.m. an erratic driver was reported around the 400 block of HPR. She was gone when officers arrived.
At 2:19 p.m. a woman was reported out of her car and behaving erratically in the 100 block of Lincoln Street.
At 2:32 p.m. a traffic accident was reported in a parking lot in the 700 block of HPR. The mirror on one vehicle was damaged.
At 4:21 p.m. a downtown bar reported a man was sleeping on the steps and when awakened refused to leave. An officer spoke to him and he agreed to leave.
A credit card was turned in and is in the police property drawer.
At 7:57 p.m. a backpack was found in the airport parking lot. Police located the owner, and an officer returned it.
July 27
At 12:36 a.m. a resident on Burkhart Street said someone had been banging on a window and it had broken. Police are investigating.
At 1:56 a.m. a man said he’d been assaulted. Police are investigating.
At 3:52 a.m. two men were reported loitering around a collection of random items along the road in the 1400 block of HPR. The men were gone when officers arrived.
At 5:56 a.m. a resident on Alice Loop Road reported hearing what might have been a gunshot near Sealing Cove. Police determined it likely was noise from a plane getting ready to fly out of the Sitka airport.
Emergency Calls
Sitka Fire Department received ambulance calls at 2:12 p.m., 4:42 p.m., 7:19 p.m., 9:15 p.m. and 11:56 p.m. Tuesday, and 2:11 a.m. and 2:57 a.m. today.
Coast Guard
A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka helicopter crew on Tuesday morning medevacked a 59-year-old hunter with a leg injury on Prince of Wales Island.
The Air Station received the call at 7:34 a.m. and launched at 8:42 a.m. The man was hoisted into the helicopter at Lake Mountain, and flown to Ketchikan for care.
On a call today, an Air Station helicopter crew was conducting search patterns in the Port Althorp area, south of Elfin Cove, after receiving a report from Sector Juneau that a life ring and other debris was found floating there.
The crew of the F/V Ariel called Juneau about finding the items, which notified the Air Station at 7:23 a.m. The helicopter took off at 8 a.m., and arrived on scene at 8:47 a.m.
No calls were reported of missing or overdue vessels, the Coast Guard said, and the search for further clues was under way at press time.
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20 YEARS AGO
November 2004
The Digital Cameras for Beginners class has been scheduled at UAS, Sitka Campus. Tim Schroeder will teach the basic operations of a digital camera, the assets and limitations,, and how to get some great shots. Students are invited to take their own cameras.
50 YEARS AGO
November 1974
Les Yaw has been named chairman of the 1974 fund drive at Sheldon Jackson College. ... A goal of $30,000 has been set for the campaign, Ed Scholz, school advancement assistant, said, with money to be used for the SJC aquaculture program.
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