PASSING THE TORCH - Retiring executive director of the Sitka Community Land Trust, Randy Hughey, left, stands with the non-profit's new director, Amy Kramer Johnson, Saturday night during a celebration honoring the two at Stevenson Hall on the SJ...
The Sitka Planning Commission at its regular meeting Wednesday night approved a preliminary plat for a minor subdivision resulting in two lots at 1403 Halibut Point Road, and a final plat merging the three lots at 3317, 3319 and 3321 Halibut Point...
Assembly member Kevin Mosher was elected mayor in Tuesday’s municipal election with more than 58% of the vote, over his two opponents. “I’m very grateful, I’m very humbled,” Mosher said, just after the unofficial results were posted in the...
Artists, scientists, Indigenous stewards and culture-bearers, athletes, animals and best friends will meet on the biggest screens in Sitka in 33 documentaries airing Friday through Sunday for Sitka's second annual American Documentary and Animation Film Festival.
BULLETIN -- Kevin Mosher was elected mayor in Tuesday’s municipal election with over 58% of the vote, over his two opponents. In the race for two Assembly seats, incumbent JJ Carlson and Sherri Blankenship were the top vote getters. In the school...
The Planning Commission has two minor subdivision requests on it Wednesday night meeting agenda, both of related to large Residential- zoned waterfront tracts on Halibut Poont Road. .
Sitka voter turnout in today’s municipal election ranged from slow to steady in the first few hours polls were open at Harrigan Centennial Hall. Polls are open until 8 p.m. at the two precincts, located in separate rooms at Harrigan Centennial...
DETOUR - Lincoln Street around St. Michael's Cathedral is closed to traffic today as Sitka Public Works and SECON workers prepare to make repairs to a three-inch galvanized water line servicing the Cathedral Arms apartment building. Through...
Polls are open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Harrigan Centennial Hall in Tuesday’s municipal election. Early voting wraps up today at 4:30 at Centennial Hall. On the ballot are candidates for mayor, Assembly and School Board, and a ballot...
Phone lines were buzzing as a crowd gathered in the Cable House for the first day of the Raven Radio's fall fundraising drive, to witness a special surprise for Robert Woolsey, who Phones rang steady at the Cable House on Monday ears of...
Sitkans will elect two Assembly members, three School Board members and a new mayor, and weigh in on the Assembly’s special election discretion when they vote in the municipal election on Tuesday, Oct. 6. To help voters make informed decisions,...
All who testified in the Alaska subsistence hearings the U.S. Forest Service held via teleconference Wednesday said the 2001 Roadless Rule should be kept in place to protect subsistence harvest opportunities, particularly on the Tongass National...
The governor has approved the state’s first 20 Scholarship Granting Organizations under the new federal Education Freedom Tax Credit program, the state Department of Education and Early Development announced. Sitka school representatives say...
BRANCHING OUT – A brown-footed booby, a tropical bird, joins Alaska fishermen aboard the 58-foot seiner longliner El Dorado at Kelp Bay recently. Skipper Jasper Allbrett said the bird showed up at the boat about Sept. 19 and hung out with the crew...
OPEN AT LAST - A man and a child walk across Maksoutoff Street Thursday morning as the last of the portable restrooms that blocked the city street the past five months is towed away. The street is the only vehicle connection from Harbor Drive to...
ORANGE SHIRT DAY - The Naa Kahidi Dancers perform Wednesday night during the Orange Shirt Day Remembrance Event at the Sheet'ka Kwaan Naa Kahidi. The event, organized by Sitka Tribe of Alaska and Outer Coast, was held to honor the lives and...
Sitkans will elect two Assembly members, three School Board members and a new mayor, and weigh in on the Assembly’s special election discretion when they vote in the municipal election on Tuesday, Oct. 6. To help voters make informed decisions,...
Downtown Lincoln Street traffic will be rerouted for ten days beginning Monday, continuing through Oct. 15, as SECON workers dig up and replace a portion of the galvanized water line leading to the Cathedral Arms building. “We’re...
Some 150 from Sitka, the Northwest and as far away as Hawaii assembled at Centennial Hall this week to share information, meet their peers and learn from experts, at the Northwest Community Land Trust Coalition Annual Gathering. The event is...
City leaders are asking Sitkans for feedback on a draft ordinance that would establish the city’s first specific permitting regulations for new cruise ship docks, or the expansion of existing cruise ship docks in the City and Borough of...