20 YEARS AGO  August 2005 Sitkans who worked with Jay Hammond remember the former governor, who died Tuesday, for his down-to-earth style, subsistence background and contributions to the state and community. “There will never be another...

20 YEARS AGO  August 2005 Photo caption: Don Branham and Jack Dawson of Sitka Ready-Mix present a $16,000 check to Judy Sudnikovich of the Sitka Golf Association for sponsorship of the ninth green at Sea Mountain Golf Course. (Sentinel...

20 YEARS AGO  August 2005 Advertisement: Dear generous residents of Sitka, the Thimbleberry Trail capital campaign ended successfully August 1. The $10,000 goal was surpassed, with a total of $15,000 raised. ... Yours truly, the Sitka Trail...

20 YEARS AGO  August 2005 Photo caption: Mayor Marko Dapcevich and Sarah Young watch the ball thrown by Patrick Moore, 11, head for the gong during the Sitka Fire Department’s Fifth Annual Aid to Volunteers fund-raiser at the fire hall. The...

20 YEARS AGO July 2005 Requests to adopt a regionally supported ferry schedule for the winter, spring and summer appears to have fallen on deaf ears, Marlene Campbell, Sitka’s government relations director, told the Assembly Tuesday. She said...

20 YEARS AGO July 2005 The Sawmill Cove Industrial Park board has urged the Assembly to begin negotiating as soon as possible for construction of  a new cruise ship dock in the cove. ‘‘We think the construction of a multipurpose dock and a...

20 YEARS AGO July 2005 Sitka is the first community in Alaska to receive a ‘‘Preserve America’’ designation, First Lady Laura Bush has announced. The designation recognizes Sitka’s efforts to preserve its cultural and natural heritage...

20 YEARS AGO July 2005 Sitka High classes of 1963, 1964 and 1965 will gather as p art of the Annual Sitka Picnic at Edmonds City Park, Edmonds, Wash. Karen (Larsen) Nardinger, Terry (Scheidt) Herman, Steele Clayton, Shirley Dronen, Jean...

20 YEARS AGO July 2005 Sitkans Kim Hunter and Grace Brooks have teamed up to join thousands of other women and men at the Seattle Breast Cancer 3-Day walk benefiting the Susan G. Kormen Breast Cancer Foundation and the National Philanthropic...

20 YEARS AGO July 2005 Advertisement: Sitka Medical Center offers patients secure access to our ‘‘We Deliver’’ pregnancy website. Our Family Practice Physicians Donald Lehmann, M.D., and Graham Chelius, M.D., have over 30 years of experience in...

20 YEARS AGO July 2005 Photo caption: Greg Hunter, dressed as Harry Potter, holds up a copy of hte latest book in the J.K. Rawlings series ‘‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blind Prince’’ very early Saturday outside Old Harbor Books. Scores lined up...

20 YEARS AGO July 2005 Two weeks ago cable channel surfers were at once delighted and disoriented by a massive change in their TV program choices thorugh the addition of up to 11 new channels. HBO viewers going to their usual Channel 17 found...

20 YEARS AGO July 2005 The Assembly approved a grant application for $450,000 for the Sitka Trail Plan, including completing two phases of the Cross Trail, an extension of the Beaver Lake trail to Herring Cove, and completion of a trail from...

20 YEARS AGO July 2005 The Sawmill Cove Industrial Park Board has recommended to the Assembly that the city sell 13.74 acres of land at the park to a Florida entrepreneur if he meets a set of conditions. Wendell B. Adams of Sarasota, Fla., wants...

20 YEARS AGO July 2005 After an upsetting second-place finish at February’s regional competition, the Sitka Skippers had to assess if it would be worth accepting an invitation to the national championships. ...  The relay team of Erin...

20 YEARS AGO July 2005 Mariska Rivera Cirera has graduated cum laude from Oregon State University, Corvallis, Ore., with a bachelor of science degree in microbiology with a minor in chemistry. The 2001 Sitka High graduate is the daughter of...

20 YEARS AGO July 2005 Classified Boats for sale: 16’ Lund, tight rivets, no motor $1,000.** 1990 21’ Olympic Volvo Penta, 1996 tandem trailer $12,000. Albin 25’ project boat, needs repower. Possible small liveaboard $5,500 OBO. 34’ CHB...

20 YEARS AGO July 2005 Salmon and Dolly Varden are going to have an easier time getting up a drainage near Herring Cove this summer thanks to a new culvert installed as part of a mitigation project involving four agencies. The City of Sitka,...

20 YEARS AGO July 2005 Salmon and Dolly Varden are going to have an easier time getting up a drainage near Herring Cove this summer thanks to a new culvert installed as part of a mitigation project involving four agencies. The City of Sitka,...

20 YEARS AGO July 2005 Photo caption: Dr. John Totten points out details of an x-ray to Lois Rhodes on new view boxes in Sitka Community Hospital Imaging Services Dept. ... The boxes were purchased with funds donated in memory of Rhodes’ mother,...