20 YEARS AGO April 2005 Photo caption: People talk about sexual assault and the impact of sexual violence during a Take Back the Night candlelight vigil at the Sheet’ka Kwaan Naa Kahidi. The event, sponsored by Sitkans Against Family Violence,...
20 YEARS AGO April 2005 The Assembly Tuesday approved a one-year moratorium on issuance of conditional use permits for short-term rentals in residential zones. Jay Stelzenmuller sponsored the ordinance, which passed on a 6-1 vote. Valorie Nelson...
20 YEARS AGO April 2005 Scores of picnickers were asked to leave Halibut Point Recreation Area Sunday when a bear was sighted in the park and officials couldn’t scare it away. Trooper Shaun Kuzakin said the bear doesn’t appear to have...
20 YEARS AGO April 2005 Photo caption: Shannon Hitchcock, 6, listens to a tin can telephone during the Super Saturday event at Baranof Elementary School. ... The event was sponsored by the school’s Parent Advisory Committee and co-ordinated by...
20 YEARS AGO April 2005 Photo caption: Rachel Roy, Sitka Tribal Enterprises office manager, watches with Stuart and Orriene Denslow as a piano is moved into the Sheet’ka Kwaan Naa Kahidi. The Denslows, who are moving to Tulsa, Okla., donated the...
20 YEARS AGO
April 2005
The Assembly voted 6-0 Tuesday to “support the concept” of returning 50 percent of the fish tax on unprocessed fish to the “borough of origin.”
20 YEARS AGO April 2005 Stacey Woolsey, co-coach of the Sitka High debate, drama and forensic team, highlighted standout performances from a Ketchikan meet. ... Chandler O’Connell and Hannah Hutton took first in debate and Emily Corso and...
20 YEARS AGO
April 2005
In celebration of the 1920s and ’30s heyday of Goddard Hot Springs, the Sitka Historical Society will hold an Old Time Picnic there, in a fundraiser for the Isabel Miller Museum./p>
20 YEARS AGO February 2005 The Assembly Tuesday voted to send out a request for proposal for construction of a deepwater dock at Sawmill Cove Industrial Park. “This is a private dock, …