Police Blotter Sitka Police Department logged the following calls in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. today. June 12 Emergency Calls Sitka Fire Department received In Court Kory Ron Hansen, 35, on a March 29 charge of driving under the...
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20 YEARS AGO
June 2005
For the seven seniors on the Sitka High School girls softball team, the third time was the charm. After going 1-2 the previous two years at the state tournament, the Lady Wolves won four consecutive games to claim the inaugural “small school” softball state championship in Fairbanks. “They played the best ball they played all year all weekend long,” said Sitka Coach Lesa Way.
50 YEARS AGO
June 1975
Record Review ZRBF by M. Tackabery. Ta da! The Rock is open again and you know what that means – you’re going to have to put up with me, your vicious neighborhood record reviewer again. And what better way to open my column than by zinging an original Beatle album. ....
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As the Trump administration hosted a multimillion dollar military parade in Washington, D.C., marking the Army’s 250th anniversary and President Donald Trump’s birthday, and amid escalating military and law enforcement force against immigrants and protesters of immigration enforcement actions, thousands of Alaskans rallied in communities large and small, joining nationwide “No Kings” protests against Trump. […]
With temperatures forecast to soar as high as 89 degrees in Interior Alaska, the National Weather Service has issued its first-ever heat advisories for the state. The advisories, which started Thursday and are in effect through Sunday, warn residents in the Fairbanks area and a wider swath of Interior Alaska to be careful about outdoor […]
One day after Gov. Mike Dunleavy made a precedent-setting veto by cutting funding for the state’s public school education formula, a group of city and borough leaders denounced the decision during a joint news conference, with some saying that they expect a lawsuit to challenge it. “Everybody needs to start talking about what a lawsuit […]
Jair Cunha and Igor Jesus scored in the first half and Botafogo beat the Seattle Sounders 2-1 at the Club World Cup. Botafogo opened the scoring 28 minutes into the game as Cunha headed in a pass …
Lifelike digital Triceratops and Spinosaurus lumbering through a reimagined “Walking with Dinosaurs” and Benson Boone’s sophomore album “American Heart” are some of the new television, …
A growing number of Black fathers with autistic children are looking to be more visible in the national autism conversation through podcasts, nonprofits and summits that specifically address their …
