20 YEARS AGO November 2005 The median household income in Sitka can afford only $1,365 per month on housing, far short of the cost of owning the average-priced home here, the Chamber of Commerce was told Wednesday. Reber Stein, of the Long-Range...

20 YEARS AGO November 2005 Photo caption: Fifth-graders Carl Brenner and Hali Brookover get help from Don Sineti as they dissect squid in Jackie DiGennaro’s Keet Gooshi Heen class. Sineti, a chanteyman from Mystic Seaport, Conn., is in town to...

20 YEARS AGOOctober 2005Photo caption: Elvis Presley rocks the jail house Saturday at Centennial Hall during the annual Raven Radio Stardust Ball and Lip Sync Extravaganza. Hundreds dressed in costumes to attend. 50 YEARS AGOOctober 1975Top...

20 YEARS AGOOctober 2005Sitka School Board members Mollie Kabler and Scott McAdams were re-elected for three-year terms Tuesday. ... Municipal Clerk Colleen Pellett said voter turnout was about the same as last year, with 2,839 ballots cast on...

20 YEARS AGOOctober 2005Photo caption: Roby Littlefield looks back at the small house being torn down at Kogwantan and Katlian streets as Herman Kitka, Kogwantan leader, looks forward. Littlefield and Kitka said the house, call the Littlest Box...

20 YEARS AGOOctober 2005For years members of the current Sitka High boys swim team have been breaking Baranof Barracuda Swim Club records and winning individual and group titles. However, before Saturday's Region V championships they hadn't won a...

20 YEARS AGOOctober 2005Longtime Sitkan and independent living advocate Jerry Kainulainen has been named Alaskan of the Year by the Governor's Committee on Employment and Rehabilitation of People with Disabilities. Kainulainen, a lifelong Alaskan,...

20 YEARS AGOOctober 2005Although final analysis is still pending, scientist say their preliminary findings indicate that the humpback whale found floating in Peril Strait over the weekend died as a result of severe blunt force trauma consistent...

20 YEARS AGOOctober 2005The Sitka Maritime Heritage Society has been named recipient of a $325,000 federal Save American's Treasures grant to help in the rehabilitation of the Japonski Island Boathouse. 50 YEARS AGOOctober 1975While the parents...

20 YEARS AGOOctober 2005Photo caption: New directors of Sitka Works, which helps provide employment services for youths and adults, are, from left, Sheila Finkenbinder, Amy-Kipp Phillips, Marilyn Durocher, Laura Kronsperger, Marilyn Lande, Ken...

20 YEARS AGOOctober 2005Photo caption: Deputy Mayor Doris Bailey and City Administrator John Stein cut the ribbon to the newly remodeled Sitka Job Center, at 304 Lake St. The center now includes the services of the Division of Vocational...

20 YEARS AGOOctober 2005Southeast Alaska's Tongass National Forest has been listed as one of 11 "endangered" national forests, in a report released last week by a coalition of more than 125 environmental groups. The report says the Tongass is...

20 YEARS AGOOctober 2005Winners in the Alaska Day Biathlon included the Sitka Medical team of Torin Lehmann, Don Lehmann, Logan Evans and Eric Speck, who finished first in the team division, and Ben Meier, who was first in the men's division. 50...

20 YEARS AGOOctober 2005Photo caption: Randy Sardella poses with dance hall girls Nickie Augustine and Lorraine Smith at the Alaska Day Ball at Centennial Hall Saturday. The group won an award for their costumes, reminiscent of the 1867 era. 50...

20 YEARS AGOOctober 2005The New Archangel Dancers were given a plaque of appreciation last week from the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo for the gift the dancers gave to benefit the victims of Hurricane Katrina... The dancers have been touring Japan to...

20 YEARS AGOOctober 2005From the Police Blotter: At 10:49 p.m. a downtown bartender said a patron she had kicked out had stated he would return with an AK-47. The bartender said she wasn't too worried about the statement but wanted police to know...

20 YEARS AGOOctober 2005A free walking tour of three historic sites significant in Sitka's past is planned for Alaska Day week. The three are Building 29 (the Log Cache); the U.S. Geological Survey magnetic observatory; and the old Sheldon Jackson...

20 YEARS AGOOctober 2025Sitka School board members Mollie Kabler and Scott McAdams were re-elected for three-year terms in Tuesday's election. ... Municipal Clerk Colleen Pellet said voter turnout was about the same as last year, with 2,839...

20 YEARS AGO October 2005 Former Sitka School Superintendent John Holst topped the field of seven candidates vying for four seats on the Assembly in Tuesday's election. The three others were John Sherrod, Georgia Skannes and Jay...

20 YEARS AGOOctober 2005In Tuesday's election, propositions to increase the property tax a half mill to fund parks and rec; raise the sales tax cap to $3,000; and levy a $5 wharfage fee by cruise ship passengers failed. Extending the smoking ban...