20 YEARS AGO October 2006 Winners in the Alaska Day Ball included Celeste Tydingco who won the Frankie Haag Memorial Award of $100 for a ballgown made by the wearer. ... For the parade, Blatchley Middle School Band, Sitka Ninth Infantry,...
20 YEARS AGO October 2006 Shee Atika Inc.’s plans for a new subdivision on Alice Loop Road has prompted concerns that the new development would block public access to World War II historic sites and “possibly threaten the actual integrity...
20 YEARS AGO October 2006 Photo caption: Alaska State Trooper Larry Nicholson swears in members of the Keystone Kops near the Prospector statue. The troupe includes Diane Falk, Kim Smith, Lori Pettigrew, Cyndy Gephart, Jenny Houx, Jodie...
20 YEARS AGO October 2006 Photo caption: Ashlie Romine watches as Kyleigh McArthur kicks a soccer ball between two posts at Blatchley Middle School during the annual Elks Soccer Shoot. Youths under age 10 took 15 shots at a goal 15 feet...
20 YEARS AGO October 2006 Photo caption: Some of the hundreds of participants in the Breast Cancer Awareness Group Walk make their way back over the O’Connell Bridge. The annual event saw a record turnout and raised about $3,500 for the...
20 YEARS AGO October 2006 John Straley, the new Alaska State Writer Laureate, can point to a person who inspired him most in his work. His eighth-grade English teacher encouraged Straley to read his first story aloud to his class. Although...
20 YEARS AGO October 2006 Photo caption: Children of 3-5 Preschool play on new equipment donated by Allen Marine and the Allen family. Improvements were made with help from White’s Pharmacy, Foreign Auto, Coast Guard Spouses’ and Women’s...
20 YEARS AGO September 2006 The Sitka Mountain Rescue Team has become the first search and rescue squad in the state to receive state certification as a certified ambulance service. “By doing this we’re setting a precedent to standardizing...
20 YEARS AGO September 2006 It’s the Coast Guard to the rescue. The Army wrote the Alaska Day Committee that the 9th Army Band couldn’t come to Sitka this year because it couldn’t provide transportation. But Alaska Day Committee member Mary Lou...
20 YEARS AGO September 2006 Sitka Native Education Program is congratulating the newly elected officers of the Gajaa Heen Dancers: May Miller, Lakrisha Brady, Marki Jackson, Brendan Hoffay, Benjamin Breece, Rachelle George, Adam Larsen and...
20 YEARS AGO September 2006 Sitka voters elected Marko Dapcevich to a second term as mayor Tuesday, and chose Nancy Cavanaugh and Cheryl Westover for the two other Assembly seats. The two School Board incumbents, Tom Conley and Cass Pook,...
20 YEARS AGO September 2006 The woodstove currently in the North Beach Cabin on Kruzof will be replaced with an oil stove this month. Firewood will no longer be cut for this cabin, and there is no firewood supply at this time. ... The cabin has...
20 YEARS AGO September 2006 SEARHC will raise the Kooteeyaa Project Wellbriety totem pole during a ceremony in front of the SEARHC Community Health Services building. The totem pole will have the Tlingit name Yei eek kwa neix, which means “you...
20 YEARS AGO September 2006 Photo caption: Hundreds of Sitkans join forces to raise the Yaadas Crest Pole by hand Saturday at Sitka National Historical Park. Brothers T.J. and Joe Young spent the summer at the park carving the 40-foot pole,...
20 YEARS AGO September 2006 Photo caption: Erik Davenport of Maple Leaf Construction cuts siding for the historic Cable House on Lincoln Street. The building, which will be 100 years old in 2008, is being restored with grants totaling $300,000...
20 YEARS AGO September 2006 The Assembly approved a lease of city property at Sawmill Creek Industrial Park to a new fish processing company, including a cash grant of up to $350,000 for employee housing. Sitka fisherman Troy Denkinger is the...
20 YEARS AGO September 2006 Sawmill Creek Farm education liaison Bobbi Daniels said the two most often asked questions at the farm are “When do we get to see bears?” and “Will you guys get horses?” The answer to the second: Yes, on the 23rd of...
20 YEARS AGO September 2006 Sitka Film Society has added a second showing of the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” at the Downtown Coliseum Theater. The Friday show is sold out. Al Gore narrates the story of global warming, its origins, and...
20 YEARS AGO September 2006 Park Service Ranger Lisa Matlock helps Chelsea Michael cut rhubarb in front of the Russian Bishop’s House. Gina Lawson’s Baranof Elementary School first-graders were harvesting vegetables in the historic garden they...
20 YEARS AGO September 2006 State officials say they won’t finish a study of northern Southeast transportation, and they have delayed studying a road route to a new Sitka ferry terminal, but they’re moving ahead with research for a road...