20 YEARS AGO May 2005 Photo caption: Guy Klabunde, director of statewide expansion of Boys and Girls Clubs in Alaska, talks with people interested in starting a club for kids age 5-18 in Sitka. At right are Brian Weddel and Barb Morse. 50 YEARS...
20 YEARS AGO May 2005 New regulations went into effect Tuesday to increase the daily king salmon bag limit for residents from two kings to three with no annual limit; and non-residents to an annual limit of five, up from three. 50 YEARS...
20 YEARS AGO May 2005 Sitka High School art department is seeking operating sewing machines for the costume design class. Fabrics, fibers and yarn also are needed. Call the art room and ask for Ms. Needham or Ms. Knox. 50 YEARS AGO May...
20 YEARS AGO May 2005 Photo caption: Members of the community work together to raise a totem pole outside Pacific High School. The “Yees Wat Ganeix” of “Healing the New Generation: pole was carved by Pacific High students instructed by Sitka...
20 YEARS AGO April 2005 Photo caption: The cast of “The Princess Plays” rehearses at Keet Gooshi Heen Elementary School. ... From left are Ruby Gale, Aren Vastola, Sam Woolsey, Zach Bauder, Cooper Gale, Zephyr Feryuk Ben Gordan, Kari...
20 YEARS AGO April 2005 Photo caption: Noel “Babe” Straiger of Straiger Sanitation stands next to a pile of tires collected during the annual Citywide Spring Cleanup Days. More than 175,000 pounds of refuse was taken to the Jarvis Street...
20 YEARS AGO April 2005 Photo caption: Holland America Line local advisory board member Fred Reeder presents a $5,000 check to Brian Bergman and Wayne, Leslie and Jason Young. The check is for the Tom Young Memorial Cabin being constructed by...
20 YEARS AGO April 2005 Photo caption: Chuck Johnson, Tori Fleming and Henry Louie hold containers of food to be used to make care packages to send to Sitka Army National Guard soldiers serving in Iraq. The food, donated by city workers,...
20 YEARS AGO April 2005 Photo caption: Erika Laine McConkey, recently named Miss Teen Alaska 2005, will be competing in the Miss Teen International 2005 pageant in Chicago in July. McConkey, a 15-year-old Sitka High sophomore, thanked her...
20 YEARS AGO April 2005 A local ordinance requiring bike and skateboard riders under age 18 to wear helmets was passed by the Assembly Tuesday on a 6-1 vote. Valorie Nelson voted against, saying she believed the new law might place a financial...
20 YEARS AGO April 2005 By a vote of 5-2, the Assembly Tuesday approved an increase of 45 cents a foot in the monthly moorage rates to fund the construction of a new Old Thomsen Harbor, and other harbor upgrades. The Port and Harbors...
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, …