How did tourism-related traffic affect noise pollution, emissions, and your sense of safety in Sitka this summer? How much more or less did you go downtown on larger cruise ship days? Should Lincoln Street remain open to cars on all cruise ship...
Indigenous Peoples’ Day will be observed Monday with a fish dinner and performances by many local dance groups at a public event Outer Coast College is putting on at Harrigan Centennial Hall beginning at 5 p.m. The celebration is open to...
A delegation from Sitka is headed to Japan to mark and honor the 50th anniversary of Sitka’s sister city relationship next week with Nemuro, a city on the island of Hokkaido. Representatives from Nemuro invited Sitka officials, Mayor Steven...
EDITOR's NOTE: The Gormans of Sitka are bound for Thailand to resume their humanitarian work on the Burma/Thai border. In this dispatch Mark Gorman relates his expereince with travel industry customer service on the far side of the world. Nancy...
With a little over three weeks to go before the deadline, about 90 households have applied for help through the city’s utility subsidization program. Applications for the subsidy of up to $100 per month will be accepted through Oct. 31, the city...
A curated selection of films, touching on topics from journalism in Russia to longline fishing in Alaska, will come to big screens around town this weekend in the state’s first showing of the American Documentary Film and Animation Festival,...
Voters in Sitka’s municipal election Tuesday handed a decisive win to Katie Riley for Assembly, and soundly rejected Proposition 2, which would have required sponsors of future initiative petitions to pay for a detailed economic study. Ballot...
BULLETIN - With all votes counted from Sitka's two precincts on election day today and in early voting, Katie Riley was the clear winner in the race for a seat on the City and Borough Assembly, but the contest for the other seat was too close to...
Election workers reported a “steady” turnout of voters at the two polling stations in Harrigan Centennial Hall today, on a clear-blue-sky Election Day. On the ballot in the regular municipal election are six candidates for two seats on the...
The Sitka High concert season opens Wednesday with a program of vocal and instrumental performances in styles ranging from jazz to contemporary and classical. “It’s our first performance of the school year, just six weeks in, so it gives us a...
Polls will be open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday in Sitka's annual municipal election, with voters choosing two candidates for Assembly and two for the School Board, and deciding whether to pass two ballot propositions. The six candidates vying for...
Dungeness crab fishing is back on for a full fall season that began Wednesday and extends through Nov. 30, although Alaska Department of Fish and Game harvest projections show that Southeast Alaska fishermen might not achieve the harvest threshold...
Sitkans will choose two Assembly members, two School Board members and decide on two propositions Tuesday when they vote in the municipal election. Statements by the Assembly and School Board candidates are on page 6 and 7 of today's...
Sherri Blankenship Assembly Candidate For more than two decades I have raised my family here in Sitka, navigating the same challenges and celebrating the same joys as so many of our neighbors. As a parent of four children, educated from...
Proposition 2 on the October 7 city election ballot is an initiative petition that, if approved by the voters, would add a section to the city code requiring future applications for voter initiatives to be accompanied by a professionally prepared...
