Police Blotter Sitka Police Department received the following calls in the 24 hours ending 8 a.m. today May 15 At 10:34 a.m. some threatening was reported among high schoolers at Moller ball field. The schools were to handle the matter. A...
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20 YEARS AGO
May 2005
The Assembly Friday decided to stick to an earlier decision to raise city employee pay by an across-the-board 1.5 percent. A raise of 2.5 percent was proposed in the administrator’s budget but a majority of the Assembly agreed to the 1.5 percent, which will save $110,000.
50 YEARS AGO
May 1975
At the School Board meeting, President Ed Spencer read a letter from Mrs. Isabella Brady informing the board that a consultant will be in Sitka to discuss the educational concept of “Foxfire” with Mt. Edgecumbe administrators. Foxfire is about students writing about the people and customs peculiar to their home areas.
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