20 YEARS AGO September 2005 Photo caption: Sitka High students Angela Camacho, Van Hanson, Kirstin Padgett and Natalia Potrzuski hold up a quilt to be raffled off to raise funds for the school’s basketball program. Jane Seesz pieced...
20 YEARS AGO September 2005 Photo caption: Edna Branlund, chairman of Sitka Emblem Club’s annual bake sale, presents a check for $1,128.75 to Anna Winters of the Swan Lake Senior Center, as Julie Wright, club president looks on. 50 YEARS...
20 YEARS AGO September 2005 The cost of a gallon of unleaded gasoline is inching toward $3 in Sitka as a result of a 48 cents a gallon increase in wholesale gas prices in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. 50 YEARS AGO September 1975 School...
20 YEARS AGO September 2005 Bob Loiselle has announced to the Shee Atika Inc. board of directors that he will be stepping down as president and CEO of the Sitka-based urban Native corporation, Chairman Marion Williams Berry announced...
20 YEARS AGO August 2005 Photo caption: Emblem Club members Edna Branlund, Judi Blankenship, Anna Winters, Jullee Wright and Norma Malpus stand with tea service collections that will be on display during the tea and book event at the...
20 YEARS AGO August 2005 Photo caption: Former Public Defender Galen Paine, who continues to volunteer her services at the Sitka Public Defenders office, holds up the Alaska Bar Association’s Robert K. Hickerson Public Service Award she...
20 YEARS AGO August 2005 Joey Nicolas has graduated from U.S. Coast Guard training at Cape May, N.J. He will attend machinery technical school in Yorktown, Va. Nicholas, a 2005 graduate of Sitka High School, is the son of Dan and...
20 YEARS AGO August 2005 Photo caption: Archpriest John Zabinko watches as Orthodox seminarian Paul Erickson offers traditional braided bread and salt to former Russian president Boris Yeltsin and his wife at St. Michael’s Cathedral...
20 YEARS AGO August 2005 Among their many findings, archaeologists who were working the last three weeks in Sitka National Historical Park came up with cannon balls, glass from Civil War era bottles, and pieces of a blacksmith-made...
20 YEARS AGO August 2005 Notice: Dock Workshop. The City and Borough of Sitka invite you to an information workshop at the Centennial Hall on the proposed multi-purpose ocean dock at Sawmill Cove Industrial Park. The purpose is to present...
20 YEARS AGO August 2005 Sitkans Gary Smith, Dan Kelliher and Alexei Desatoff joined two Juneau cyclists to team up for the Juneau bicycle three-day tour. Smith was the second-place overall finisher in the three-stage event, Kelliher...
20 YEARS AGO August 2005 Sheldon Jackson College Aquarium and Hatchery is ending summer hours to prepare for students returning to fall classes. “We had a great summer,” said hatchery manager Dan Goodness. “I want to sincerely thank our...
20 YEARS AGO August 2005 Sheet’ka Kwaan Dancers will hold a dinner to raise funds to attend Celebration 2006 in Juneau. Pete Esquiro will be chief cook, preparing king salmon on sticks roasted over an open fire. Also on the menu will be...
20 YEARS AGO August 2005 Photo caption: Korina Chapman displays the first-place medal she won Saturday at the Hershey’s Track and Field North American Final in Hersey, Pa. Chapman, 13, won the girls softball throw with a toss of 186...
20 YEARS AGO August 2005 From the Police Blotter: At 11:20 a.m. a man in military shorts and no shirt was reported playing loud music on Katlian Street and refusing to leave. After police talked to him he agreed to leave, and also turned...
20 YEARS AGO August 2005 Photo caption: Naa Kahidi Dancers perform on Lincoln Street during the annual Sitka Sidewalk Sale. From left are Sharon Sam, Karen Howard, Gilbert Sam Jr., and Angela Ketah, holding Kristina Sam. 50 YEARS...
20 YEARS AGO August 2005 Matt Way displays an engraved baseball bat that reads “2005 Alaska Player of the Year.” Way, who will be playing baseball this fall for Washington State University, said he doesn’t know who sent him the bat. Way...
20 YEARS AGO August 2005 Classified Ads: Rentals 1-bdrm apt in new home with view. $950 House, 3-4 bdrms, 2-bath. WD, Near downtown $1,700 Large 3-bdrm house w/ carport. $2,550. ** 3-bdrm, 2-bath, WD, downtown $1,200. 50 YEARS...
20 YEARS AGO August 2005 The Sitka High football, cross-country and cheerleading teams have begun practice. All athletes planning to participate in fall sports need physicals. For more information call Steve Gillaspie. 50 YEARS...
20 YEARS AGO August 2005 The federal transportation bill just approved by Congress includes three Sitka projects: $2.5 million for paving and building sidewalks on Indian River Road; $1 million identified for building the World War II...