SPOOKY FISH - Costumed youngsters pick out marine debris at an activities table set up for making monster dolls Thursday night in the Sitka Sound Science Center's Sage Building. Hundreds turned out for the center's annual Haunted Aquarium. The...
Early, in-person voting for Alaska’s general election opened in Sitka on Tuesday morning, and as of this afternoon more than 530 people had cast ballots at the Centennial Hall voting site. The Alaska Division of Elections reported Thursday that...
More than a hundred Sitkans weighed in Thursday with their suggestions and priorities for a 20-year Parks and Recreation master plan. Sitka Recreation Foundation and the city Parks and Recreation division hosted the three-hour open house. The...
WORD BY WORD - Debbie Miller, right, and other members of the Sitka Rotary Club help third-graders at Keet Gooshi Heen Elementary School look up answers to questions posed on index cards Monday. The Rotary Club for several years has been providing...
As data center developers show interest in Alaska, city leaders are taking steps to keep data centers out of Sitka until proper local protections are in place. At their regular meeting Wednesday night Planning Commission members recommended in a...
A town hall discussion on the proposed ordinance to regulate the taxicab and commercial passenger business in Sitka drew a good turnout at Centennial Hall Tuesday night, and produced a number of suggestions for changes in proposed and current...
Starting next week "cut-through" traffic will be closed off on Monastery Street between DeGroff and Arrowhead streets, the city Public Works Department has announced. The traffic pattern change is timed with the Oct. 31 reopening of Lake Street,...
Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association had the float that was most representative of the parade's theme, "Our City, Our Story." U.S. Army members comprised the "Best Marching Group." Seattle Firefighters Pipes and Drums won "Best...
Sitka Tourism Manager Judson Rusk's "Sitka Talks Tourism" event 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. tomorrow at Centennial Hall is the first in what Rusk says will be series of a biannual community conversations about the large tourism industry and its role in...
Candidates for Sitka Tribe of Alaska Tribal Council will answer tribal citizens' questions during a forum event set for 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. tonight in the executive board room at STA Tribal Headquarters, 204 Siginaka Way. Early voting in the STA...
Lake Street will reopen by October 28, after contractors finish the replacement of underground infrastructure, the city public works department announced. “The contractor would like to do it as quickly as they can,” said city engineer Mike...
FOND MEMORIES - Scott Saline hands out bags of freshly cooked rockfish at his Sea Daddy restaurant on Katlian Street Friday. Saline was offering free lunch to everyone to honor his good friend and long-time Sitka fisherman Jeff Stewart, who died...
The Sitka Parks and Recreation Division and the Sitka Recreation Foundation will host an open house Thursday to gather input from Sitkans to help build a long range Parks and Recreation Master Plan for Sitka. The open house is 4 to 7 p.m. at...
A landslide north of Ketchikan on Thursday ‘catastrophically’ disabled the Ketchikan Public Utilities electrical substation at Ward Cove, prompting local utility crews to reroute power to customers on Ketchikan's north end via two other...
City leaders are recommending changes to city zoning code concerning data center development in Sitka, as data center development proposals are popping up in Southeast and across Alaska. At a regular meeting 7 p.m. Wednesday at Centennial Hall,...
ALASKA DAY FESTIVAL - The stars and stripes are raised on Castle Hill during the reenactment of the 1867 Transfer Ceremony as part of the Alaska Day Festival Sunday. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
A full slate of Alaska Day Festival and other activities will lead up to Alaska Day itself on Sunday, October 18. The packed schedule will include the Alaska Day Ball, parade, and a re-enactment of the October 18, 1867, transfer ceremony atop...
Alaska gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins will return to his hometown of Sitka Sunday for an Alaska Day concert by the Rain Dogs and Pedal Boys at Odess Theater on the Sheldon Jackson campus. The event is hosted by...
A 21st Century parlor game and antique model trains, all with roots in Sitka, were front and center Thursday night at the Sitka Historical Society & Museum's annual meeting at Centennial Hall. For his part in keeping model trains a moving part of...
FIELD DAY - Mt. Edgecumbe High School students run under a parachute on Moller Field Saturday night. Tug-of-war and "Balloon Stomp" are other favorite events in the annual morale-building field day. Students on the MEHS Upper Campus Committee...