By Sentinel Staff Eighty-four Mt. Edgecumbe High School seniors walked across the stage this morning to receive their diplomas in a graduation ceremony held at the school field house. The class of 2025 chose Michael Mahoney as its...
At a brief meeting of the Sitka School board Wednesday evening, kept short by the near universal wish of board members and attendees to be at the middle and high school pops concert, Superintendent Deidre Jenson said the district is “not out of...
As part of the nationwide axing of the National Endowment for the Arts, Sitka Fine Arts Camp lost a grant intended to be used to pay staff this summer, and although the organization will be able to avoid immediate cuts by drawing into its fiscal...
Amid a series of cuts to federal funding for programs nationwide, a National Endowment for the Arts grant that supported the Sheldon Jackson Museum’s Alaska Native artist residency program was cancelled Friday, but the museum will still be able to...
Held in celebration of the return of herring to Sitka Sound and the coming of spring, this year’s Yaaw Koo.eex’ begins Saturday and will run through the night into Sunday morning, with food, gifts and community activism items planned, starting...
A packed Town Hall meeting held Tuesday evening saw a passionate debate over the future of cruise tourism in Sitka, as two opposing advocacy groups hashed out the potential impacts of increased tourism – or a proposed cap on visitor numbers – on...
Kaxátjaa Hít, the Kiks.ádi clan house at 203 Kaagwaantaan Street that had been slated for demolition, is now owned by Katlian Collective, a nonprofit organization with a mission to restore and sustain the clan houses and cultural heritage of...
Routine inspection work on the O’Connell bridge is scheduled to begin Wednesday, and will slow traffic traveling between downtown to Japonski island until next week as the state Department of Transportation limits traffic to a single lane to allow...
Sitka clergy members and Southeast Alaska Women in Fisheries members carry baskets and buckets of flowers to Sitka Harbor Depertment workers to place at sea during the Blessing of the Fleet ceremony at Crescent Harbor Sunday.
By ANNA LAFFREY Sentinel Staff Writer The City and Borough of Sitka agreed to pay $320,000 to former Sitka Police Department Officer Gary Cranford to settle a lawsuit that the officer filed against the city. Cranford, who served with SPD for...
Southeast Alaska endured an abnormally wet April, with a series of low pressure fronts washing over the panhandle through the month, and there is unlikely to be a reprieve from rain in May, the National Weather Service says. Through April, 7.2...
Sitka Trail Works is inviting all community members to its third annual "Trail Master Summit" on Saturday at Keet Gooshi Heen elementary school, and on the bike trails behind Sitka High School. Trail Works director Ben Hughey said today that the...
Scores of young musicians will gather for two concerts next week, where they will show their chops with a wide range of musical performances, all free to attend and held at the Performing Arts Center, Monday and Wednesday evenings. First will be...
The local fishing fleet, mariners and churches invite the public to the Blessing of the Fleet 2 p.m. Sunday at Crescent Harbor shelter. In keeping with long-standing tradition, the annual event is held to give thanks for the bountiful harvest of...
Jacob SamPayenna, subdeacon for St. Michael's Russian Orthodox Cathedral, played the cathedral’s bells at 10 a.m. today as cruise ship passengers wandered down Lincoln Street for the first time this year. In anticipation of a...
Twenty-seven students of the Sitka Fine Arts Camp’s Young Performers Theater are set to open their latest production, The Reluctant Dragon, on Friday at the Odess Theater. The play follows the adventures of Widget and Hairytoes, two young...
