Twenty-one local students learned and practiced the mainstays of marine navigation and wilderness safety throughout the eight-day “Sheet’ká Splash Mountain” program that concluded with a “skill testing” excursion to Point Brown on Kruzof Island on...
Clad in green and gold, artist and musician Nicholas Galanin received his honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from University of Alaska Anchorage Wednesday, April 30. In his speech at UAAʼs commencement ceremony, he painted a series of...
The Sitka School Superintendent Deidre Jenson says the district is formulating a strategy for responding to the state Board of Education’s vote to set a 30-day comment period on a regulation change that would count in-kind services toward the...
Charges are pending against a driver who struck a cluster of mailboxes and a telephone pole early Sunday morning in the 1500 block of Sawmill Creek Road. Police said the driver, a 35-year-old man from Palmer, was out of the car and seen walking...
The Sitka Wolves put their undefeated 18-0 season record (24-2-1 overall) on the line in a semifinal against the Colony Knights (14-9) on Friday afternoon at the ASAA/First National Bank Alaska Division I Baseball State Championships at...
The Southeast Conference champion Sitka Wolves softball team flew 592 miles to play in the ASAA/First National Bank Alaska Division II Softball State Championships at Anchorage’s Cartee Fields and defeated SEC runner up rival Ketchikan 9-2...
As most of Sitka’s adult population heads to work Monday morning, 234 elementary age kids will be spending their mornings learning music, dance, theater, ceramics and visual arts at Sitka Fine Arts Camp elementary camp. And half will come from...
Local trollers are enduring slow chinook fishing, and hoping that catch rates will pick up soon in the spring troll fishery areas that opened near Sitka beginning May 1. The spring chinook fishery tends to peak in mid-June as local...
Through beach asparagus, place-based writing exercises and excursions to Goddard Hot Springs, authors Amy Butcher and Brendan Jones led the first Sitka Writers Retreat with an eye for translating experience into inspiration. The inaugural...
Conditional use permits for a marijuana retail facility and approval of on-site marijuana consumption — both for a facility at 4509 Halibut Point Road — were approved, after additional conditions, by the Planning Commission at its regular...
Besides taking on a few controversial items at last Thursday’s meeting, the Assembly handled few more straightforward items including appointments, VHF radio purchases and an ordinance to allow for on-site marijuana facilities in Sitka. The votes...
Commercial pot shrimp fishing is set to close at 4 p.m. today off the west coast of Baranof and Chichagof Islands in fishery Sections 13-A/B, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced. The pot shrimp fishery opened across Southeast on May...
The count of absentee and questioned ballots on Monday fell along similar lines to the rest of the special election results, with 53 voting in favor of the proposition to limit cruise visitation, and 99 opposed. The city clerk’s office counted...
The latest in Sitka’s efforts to define its relationship with the tourism industry, the Sitka Sound Science Center partnered with Windesheim Honours College in the Netherlands to create an analysis-based business plan centering regenerative...
With Lincoln Street open to vehicle traffic, and its sidewalks bustling with cruise ship visitors, the city is preparing to close the upper portion of Maksoutoff Street to install temporary restrooms there. The section of Maksoutoff from Lincoln...
In a meet that boiled down to a single relay and a handful of other close events, Sitka High’s boys track and field team secured their second consecutive state championship, Saturday in Anchorage, overcoming Grace Christian by only three points in...
The Coast Guard flew 18 loads of gravel on Thursday from a Katlian Bay staging area to the trail that has been heavily damaged by storms in recent years. (Sentinel Photos by James Poulson)
