this is an excerpt By Kat Rhoads (Sitka, AK) On a rainy Saturday afternoon, Lily Perez, 23, sat in a room full of play posters and scattered papers, wearing blue jeans, black converse and a white Daily Sitka Sentinel Shirt. She uncrossed her...

By Clayton Marks (Juneau, AK) Logan Bazzell, 18, currently plays the bass trombone for the Sitka Fine Arts Camp Jazz Band. He started playing the trombone 5 years ago. He then started practicing seriously. Eventually he started actually...

Sitka Tells Tales, the local live storytelling series, will presents Sitka Fine Arts Camp Out Loud 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 15, on KCAW Raven Radio. SFAC high school students will offer their work after spending  two weeks in a class called “The...

Vicki Peterson Jenks and Dr. Jennifer P. Hall will assist Sitka Lutheran Church by volunteering this month. The two will promote the Gospel, encourage tourists to play the Kessler organ, make popcorn and provide historical background of the...

Sitka Conservation Society is offering a second opportunity to view the birds of Kruzof Island on the way to St. Lazaria (weather depending) 9 a.m.-12 p.m. July 26. It departs from Crescent Harbor. Tickets are available at Old Harbor Books (cash...

Sitka Seventh-Day Adventist Church will host a vacation Bible school 9 a.m.-noon July 21-25. Kids in first through eighth grades can be dropped off behind the church between 8:30 and 9 a.m. The church said there is age flexibility. To register for...

MONDAY 5:30-6:30 p.m. AA, Sitka Pioneers Home Recreation Kitchen, call AA hotline 747-8866 for information 6 p.m. STA Yoga for Larger Bodies, Yoga Union 6 p.m. White Elephant Shop open TUESDAY 6-8 a.m. MEHS Aquatic Center Pool...

FRIDAY 10 a.m.-3 p.m. STA Fish Distribution, Seafood Producers Cooperative  Noon AA, St. Peter’s basement, call AA hotline 907-747-8866 for information  5:30 p.m. STA Zumba, Blatchley Middle School 5:30 p.m. NA Meeting, St. Peter’s...

The Coast Guard Air Station Sitka performed three medevacks since Thursday morning: - Thursday morning, outside of Yakutat the Coast Guard helicopter hoisted a crew member off a commercial fishing vessel Northern Star after he was struck on the...

Through The Grapevine: Opinions of Gossip at Sitka Fine Arts Camp By McKay Loan and Rhys James “This poem is about Micah’s dead mom. Micah’s mom is alive and well,” said sixteen year old SFAC camper Cooper Gregg when asked about the funniest...

Teachers Matter By Emma Haney Stepping outside her comfort zone, Greta Brown, a 17-year-old SFAC student, decided to take weaving this summer. "I just wanted to try something new," she told me. Usually, she likes to sew and embroider, but as...

Ceramics in Sitka By Bruno Bookman (Photos to come) Clouds loomed overhead, and a light sprinkling of rain signaled a turn in the weather as I walked into the ceramics building at Sitka Fine Arts Camp. The converted bakery that now houses...

Recently, Yale and Georgia Mason University Climate Change Communication Programs  conducted a national survey that found that the great majority of U.S. voters, 79%, oppose eliminating government programs on global warming. That includes the...

Five Sitka residents received degrees at the University of Alaska Fairbanks commencement ceremony May 3. The commencement ceremony included graduates from summer, fall and spring. Graduates are: Tatiana Andrew, certificate, rural human services;...

The University of Alaska Fairbanks has announced the students named to the deans’ and chancellor’s lists for the spring semester. Sitkans honored are: Alex Johnson chancellor’s list; Tommy Clifton, Marina Olney-Miller and Abbigale Wheeler, dean’s...

Sitka Sound Science Center will host ‘‘Revolution Camp,’’ an engineering- and design-centered summer camp for middle and high school students.  The camp runs 10 a.m.-2 p.m.  July 21-25. Scholarships are available. For more information...

Sitkans Drake Johnson and Gavan Johnson have been named to the Spokane Community College, Washington, honor roll for spring quarter. The honor roll lists those students who achieved a grade point average of 3.0 or above.

Sitka Fine Arts Camp’s musical theater intensive will present ‘‘The SpongeBob Musical’’ 7 p.m. Aug. 1 and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Aug. 2 at Sitka Performing Arts Center.  The dynamic new musical based on the beloved cartoon features original songs...