Sitka Yesterday May 16, 2025

20 YEARS AGO

May 2005

The Assembly Friday decided to stick to an earlier decision to raise city employee pay by an across-the-board 1.5 percent. A raise of 2.5 percent was proposed in the administrator’s budget but a majority of the Assembly agreed to the 1.5 percent, which will save $110,000.

50 YEARS AGO

May 1975

At  the School Board meeting, President Ed Spencer read a letter from Mrs. Isabella Brady informing the board that a consultant will be in Sitka to discuss the educational concept of “Foxfire” with Mt. Edgecumbe administrators. Foxfire is about students writing about the people and customs peculiar to their home areas.