The Resource Family Advisory Board invites licensed foster parents across Alaska to a virtual Foster Forum noon-1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 7. It is hosted in partnership with the Alaska Center for Resource Families and the Alaska Office of...
The Summer Reading Program at Sitka Public Library ends on Saturday, Aug. 2. Participants can claim their final reading prizes before that date. The name of the tween/teen winners of the summer program drawing will be announced through the...
The City and Borough of Sitka utility and payment office at City Hall will be closed 8 a.m.-noon Friday, Aug. 1, to complete the transition to a new payment system. During this time, in-person and phone services will be unavailable. For...
WEDNESDAY 11-2 Salvation Army Little Store open Noon White Elephant Shop open Noon AA, St. Peter’s basement, call AA hotline 747-8866 for information Noon STA Tribal Council, via Teleconference 4:30 p.m. Sitka Parkinson’s Support Group,...
Sitka’s Fish to Schools coho donation drive runs Aug. 1-15. The annual event brings locally-caught seafood lunches into schools. The mission of the program is to expand access to local foods and deepen the students’ understanding and respect for...
The Ictus International Trumpet Seminar finale concert will be held 7 p.m. July 26 at Harrigan Centennial Hall. It will feature trumpeters David Bilger and Brian Neal, accompanied by pianist Anna Kislitsyna. Tickets are available at...
The second Sitka Farmers Market of the season will be held 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, July 26, at the ANB Founders Hall. Vendor registration fees have been reduced from $40 to $35. A few tables remain for those wanting to sell made-in-Sitka items....
The theme for the 10 a.m.-noon Aug. 9 Imagination Library story walk is ‘‘Not a Box,’’ based on a children’s picture book written and illustrated by Antoinette Portis. The free activity will include imaginative play with boxes and...
Energetic Yoga with Jean is offered 6-7 p.m. Mondays at Yoga Union. The class offers movement and breathwork that are designed to boost vitality and awaken the body and mind. Classes are open to all with no cost to Tribal citizens and STA staff.
Mountain goat season begins Aug. 1 and registration permits are now available. Managers were unable to conduct an island-wide survey in 2024; however, goat numbers are still thought to be robust, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said....
TUESDAY 6 p.m. Assembly, Harrigan Centennial Hall WEDNESDAY 6-8 a.m. MEHS Aquatic Center Pool Open 11-2 Salvation Army Little Store open Noon White Elephant Shop open Noon AA, St. Peter’s basement, call AA hotline 747-8866 for...
In a front page photo in the July 10 issue of the Sentinel of volunteers cleaning the Senior Center, one of the women was misidentified. Victoria Smith is at far left in the photo (NOT Connie LaPerriere). The Sentinel apologizes for the error.
MONDAY 5:30-6:30 p.m. AA, Sitka Pioneers Home Recreation Kitchen, call AA hotline 747-8866 for information 6 p.m. White Elephant Shop open 7 p.m. Sitka Sportsman’s Association board meeting TUESDAY 6-8 a.m. MEHS Aquatic Center Pool...
SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium laboratories have been nationally recognized for outstanding quality and performance, SEARHC said in a press release. The honor follows recent biennial inspections by both the College of American...
The public is invited to explore big ideas through short stories and small books with the Big Ideas Book Club, hosted by Garrett Faulkner from Outer Coast and Margot O’Connell from Sitka Public Library. The group will meet five times starting...
The federal administration is trying to kill the cheapest green energy solutions necessary to slow global warming from greenhouse gas emissions. But agricultural solutions for reducing emissions have hardly begun, so can’t be destroyed....
FRIDAY 5:30 p.m. STA Zumba, Blatchley school 5:30 p.m. NA Meeting, St. Peter’s Church basement 6 p.m. Beekeepers beehive products workshop, Blatchley Middle School, 907-738-9047 6 p.m. Trail Running Filmfest, cruise terminal theater,...
A celebration of the life of Ouulukluk, Katherine Walunga Anderson, 88, will be 2 p.m. Saturday, July 19, at the Sitka United Methodist Church, 303 Kimsham Street. She passed away in Sitka on July 6. In lieu of flowers, Katherine would be...
Services for Morris Otto ‘‘Buzz’’ Brown Jr. will be held 11 a.m. Friday, July 25, at the Sitka National Cemetery. A reception will follow at the Sitka Fire Department. Buzz passed away on May 12, 2025, surrounded by love. He was 77...
The public is invited to hear Mike Morris and Gary Bagley talk about 40 years of paddling trips on the Yukon River 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 21, at Sitka Public Library in the multipurpose room. The event is part of the library’s Armchair Travel...