(WERE) WOLFF DRIVE – Tammy and Chris Mattingly set up seasonal decorations in front of their Wolff Drive house today. The couple began erecting the elaborate set in September. Decorations include 12-foot-tall skeletons, giant spiders, witches and lights. At night images are projected on the gable end of the house. Sitkans are getting into the Halloween spirit this weekend with the Sitka Sound Science Center hosting a haunted aquarium tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. (Sentinel Photo)
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May 26, 2023, Police Blotter
The following calls were logged as of 8 a.m. today.
May 25
At 1 a.m. a caller reported a boy being assaulted by a relative. An investigation is underway.
Security checks were made at two downtown bars shortly after midnight.
At 1:06 a.m. a caller complained of screaming and fighting at a trailer court. Police found residents were playing video games, and asked them to be quieter. They agreed to do so.
At 12:03 p.m. a couple was reported having a dispute in the 1200 block of SMC. After talking with police the man agreed to go elsewhere.
A dog was reported running at large in the 1800 block of HPR at 12:12 p.m. It was gone when officers arrived.
At 12:51 p.m. a dump truck driver was stopped at the O’Connell Bridge and told rocks had been falling from the truck since he’d left the roundabout. He was cited for having an unsecured load.
Protective orders were served at a residence at 1:23 p.m. and 4:12 p.m.
At 2:52 p.m. a caller reported a man had been behaving suspiciously at the skate park, staring at kids there. He left when a trooper arrived.
May 26
At 6:14 a.m. a man was reported refusing to leave a business on Smith Street. No one wanted to press charges, but the man was trespassed.
Emergency Calls
Sitka Fire Department received five ambulance calls Thursday and two early today.
Wildlife Troopers
Joseph Daniels, 45, of Sitka was cited May 24 on a charge of operating more than one dinglebar troll line in the directed lingcod fishery, May 16 on the Fairweather Grounds.
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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.