Assembly members gave their annual evaluations of the municipal administrator and the city attorney, the only two city employees who are hired directly by the Assembly, during a special meeting Tuesday night. While reviewing Municipal...
Competing in another round of the City League volleyball tournament, Yellow Jersey took down the YAPPERS 2-0 in a competitive division match. In the same division, Subway defeated Fisheye 2-1 in the consolation bracket, ending Fisheye's...
Outer Coast, a nonprofit, post-secondary education institution based on the former campus of the Sheldon Jackson College, is inviting all community members its first-ever community “Town Hall” on Wednesday night in Fraser Hall on the SJ...
ital. “Look me in the eyes. You know and I know, just because something ends, that don’t mean it wasn’t a great success.” - from “Failure: A Love Story” Actors in the upcoming Young Performers Theater play “Failure; a Love Story” may warn you...
Students, faculty and staff at the University of Alaska Southeast-Sitka are preparing to show their zeal for the university campus, and introduce the new UAS-Sitka campus director, Dr. Jeremy Rupp, during an open house event from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m....
The Sitka Assembly will hold its annual evaluations of Municipal Administrator John Leach and Municipal Attorney Rachel Dinardo Jones during a special meeting tonight at Harrigan Centennial Hall. Assembly members will review the city's employment...
Dozens of gray whales are dancing around in shallow, nearshore waters north of Sitka this spring, raising their tails to the sky as they feed from the seafloor. In recent years, mariners have noticed more and more gray whales visiting...
The Sitka Police Department received a complaint from SEARHC on 4/9/25 at 9:20 pm reporting phone harassment from a female. SEARHC initially reported to SPD the female was calling the hospital numerous times and threatening she would beat up...
ANB Harbor is obscured by snow this morning. Sitka saw several snow flurries this morning with no snow accumulation. There is a 20 percent chance of more flurries in the forecast for Saturday before rain returns. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
Students from Sitka High School and Mt. Edgecumbe High School participated in the 2025 Alaska High School Mock Trial Competition in Anchorage this weekend, and took home Sitka’s fourth consecutive state championship in the “grueling” courtroom...
FRIDAY Noon AA, St. Peter’s basement, call AA hotline 907-747-8866 for information 1-4 p.m. Portable Southeast Art Exhibit, Performing Arts Center 1:30 p.m. Bingocize, Swan Lake Senior Center 5:30 p.m. NA Meeting, St. Peter’s Church...
THURSDAY 6-8 p.m. ‘‘The Sitka Etoughffee-Off,’’ Sitka Lutheran Church kitchen, 907 747-9440 6 p.m. Sitka Tourism Commission, Harrigan Centennial Hall 6:30 p.m. An evening of poetry, poet Shauna Potocky, Sitka Public Library 6:30 p.m. Women’s...
A variance request to increase the maximum allowable height from 35 feet to 120 feet for a communication tower at Nancy Court was denied by the Planning Commission at its Wednesday meeting. A permit request for a manufactured and mobile...
After decades of working as a veterinary technician at clinics in Alaska, across the country and one overseas, April Wheldon has taken up the Animal Control Officer position in Sitka, filling a post left vacant for months following the resignation...
Southeast Alaska Regional Medical Center placed its Mount Edgecumbe Medical Center into lockdown status at 10:41 a.m. today. The building remained in lockdown until about 1:45 p.m. this afternoon. The lockdown came in response to a "potential...
Frustration and pain simmered to the surface during an annual public listening session hosted by the SEARHC Sitka Community Health Council, as Sitkans told stories of medical care gone wrong and advocated in favor of home health care for elders,...
Brad Hogarth, guest conductor of the Juneau Symphony Orchestra, presents Czech composer Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 Saturday at the Performing Arts Center at a concert titled "There and Back." The orchestra included several professional...
