SEN. MURKOWSKI SCIENCE CENTER VISIT – Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, center, talks with Lauren Bell, Sitka Sound Science Center research director, Wednesday. Also pictured are Sitka Sound Science Center Executive Director Arleigh Reynolds, far left, former director Lisa Busch, and Janet Clarke, education director. (Sentinel Photo)

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20 YEARS AGO

March 2005

Sitka Trail Works President Lisa Busch has been selected as “one of the nation’s top three hometown heroes” in the Volvo Cars of North America’s Volvo for Life Awards. She will receive $25,000 to donate to Sitka Trail Works and another $25,000 that can be distributed among other nonprofit organizations. Busch is one of the founders of Sitka Trail Works.

 

50 YEARS AGO

March 1975

Photo caption: Cabot Christianson, son of Mrs. William Medlin of Seabrook, Texas, and W.C. Christianson of Sitka, has compiled the best career record of any Swarthmore wrestler in its 30-year history. He has ended his collegiate career by winning the 150-lb. weight category at the Middle Atlantic State Collegiate Athletic Conference championships

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