WALL OF KINDNESS - Xóots Elementary School first-grader Jamison Keith points out a heart-shaped note given to Joe Montagna, the physical education and music teacher at the school, following a school assembly celebrating World Kindness Day today....
Citing the Alaska Division of Elections' latest vote count showing Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins of Sitka with more than 50% of first-choice votes, Kreiss-Tomkins' campaign issued a press release this morning titled: "Kreiss-Tomkins elected thirteenth...
Sitka’s Planning and Tourism Commission members are staying the course on creating an ordinance to regulate cruise ship dock development in Sitka, to address the community-wide impacts of cruise ship facilities here. The two bodies spent three...
FLIGHTS GROUNDED - The Sitka Rocky Gutierrez Airport security area is gated shut this afternoon. The Federal Aviation Administration grounded all flights nationwide earlier today. This is the second time flights across the country have been...
Sitka Community Choir will present its fall concert 6 p.m. Sunday at Sitka Performing Arts Center. The 45-minute concert will showcase an eclectic range of styles, including Mozart, folk, Spanish a cappella and country...
City Finance Director Brooke Volschenk reported higher-than-expected general fund revenues, more than $250,000 in collected back sales tax and a struggling airport terminal fund in her quarterly report to the Assembly at Tuesday’s...
Longtime Wrangell fisherman Matt Houser is wrapping up his first season as general manager of Sea Level Seafoods, where he’s focused on serving a fleet of 145 trollers, gillnetters, longliners and crabbers, and overseeing up to 60 workers who...
"There are cats. There is a sprinkler sound." "We have organ sounds, creaky doors, and of course, a villain mask being pulled off." "It's metal, glass, and wet." Writers, directors and actors searched for words to describe the auditory...
VETERANS HONORED - Sitka military veterans march down Lincoln Street Wednesday during the annual Veterans Day parade. American Legion Post 13 organized the parade and hosted a luncheon afterwards. The Sitka Moose Lodge 1350 offered coffee and...
Four candidates won seats on the Sitka Tribe of Alaska Tribal Council in an election that drew a record number of voters, with the introduction of online voting helping boost participation. Daas.óox Rachel Kay Moreno led the field with 204 votes,...
With little debate, the Assembly voted Tuesday night in favor of having a special city election Feb. 2 on the question of increasing the summertime 6 percent sales tax to 6.5 percent, with the increase to subsidize childcare in Sitka. There were...
Two Kuiu Isand moose are tucked away in Sitka freezers after state wildlife troopers carried them from Petersburg to Sitka last month for Sitka Tribe of Alaska's traditional foods program. Eight to ten Sitkans -- including Resource Protection...
The city and Sitka Tribe of Alaska elected officials shared information with each other, and asked for help on a few items, at the semi-annual dinner Monday at Centennial Hall. Topics included updates on work that overlaps between the two...
The Assembly on Tuesday will consider setting a special election on a ballot question that, if passed, would increase the seasonal sales tax by a half-percent to help stabilize child care in Sitka. The ordinance calling a special election for...
SWEET FUNDRAISER - Sitkans eat dinner and look over auction items set out on tables at ANB Founders Hall Sunday during the second annual Sitkans Against Family Violence Fall Family Dinner & Dessert Auction. Musicians played on stage during the...
Veterans Day will be observed in Sitka Wednesday with a doughnut social, parade, lunch and dinner, organized by Sitka's American Legion Post 13, Sitka Moose Lodge 1350 and Sitka Elks Lodge. Sitka Moose Lodge invites veterans to stop by the lodge...
Sen. Bert Stedman says he wasn't surprised to see a leftward shift in the Legislature since the Nov. 3 “blue tidal wave” election, and he sees it as unlikely he will be part of a majority bipartisan coalition in the Senate this coming...
The state ferry M/V Columbia is delayed in Ketchikan because of a mechanical problem with the port main engine of the vessel, the Alaska Marine Highway System reports. Engine repairs are scheduled to begin Thursday morning once a technician...
CONTRIBUTION TO SCIENCE - At left marine biologist and former Sitkan Jan Straley listens to her son, Finn, pictured at right with John Straley, speak on stage at Harrigan Centennial Hall Saturday during the Whalefest symposium. Her husband, John,...
TREE DOWN - Trees rest on the eaves of a house on Baranof Street this morning before work crews from Absolute Tree Care removed them. Other trees fell victim to the wind, which hit gusts as high as 55 mph over the morning. One tree fell on the...