20 YEARS AGO September 2006 The heavy rains of the past two days caught the state highway department in the midst of a culvert replacement project to prevent floods like the one last fall at Sawmill Creek Plaza. Engineers found the blocked...
20 YEARS AGO August 2006 Photo caption: Jerry Dzugan flips a grill full of marinated blackcod tips in front of the Coliseum Theater for a lunchtime fundraiser for the Island Institute. The Institute sponsors a writer in residence programs and...
20 YEARS AGO August 2006 Photo caption: Sitka High School entering senior Sierra Vaden-Vernoy sits in the rain near Sitka National Historical Park to collect money for two heart defibrillators for the school, as part of her senior project needed...
20 YEARS AGO August 2006 Bob Taylor, founder of Taylor Guitars, admits his company doesn’t need 250-year-old Sitka spruce to make perfectly fine sounding guitars. But for now, he said, it would be a “marketing sin” to promote a high-end...
20 YEARS AGO August 2006 U.S. Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Alex Azar presented SEARHC with a $1.5 million check for continued support of Frontier Extended Stay Clinics in rural Alaska and Washington. The clinics fill a need...
20 YEARS AGO August 2006 Alaskans will be given a chance to learn more about Measure 2 on the primary ballot during a forum and call-in show over KCAW-FM, with reporter Melissa Marconi-Wenttzel as a host. The ballot initiative calls for further...
20 YEARS AGO August 2006 An “Introduction to Bridge” class will be held Tuesdays in the Keet Gooshi Heen library. Bridge is a fun, social and stimulating card game for both men and women, organizer Carol Hughes said. Cost is $50 per person. 50...
20 YEARS AGO August 2006 From Sitka Yesterday August 1981: More than 100 irate salmon troll fishermen, beached by the season’s third closure, packed a room at the Centennial Building to plan strategy for fighting the increasing state and federal...
20 YEARS AGO August 2006 Three out of five Sitka School District schools met Adequate Yearly Progress standards this past school year under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, the state Department of Education said. Blatchley Middle School and...
20 YEARS AGO August 2006 Alaska Airlines said passengers in Sitka are adjusting well to new security measures imposed after a terrorist bombing plot was discovered in London. Station manager Dan Kane said passengers aren’t allowed to carry...
20 YEARS AGO August 2006 Sasha Stortz, a biology major at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Ore., has been named a 2006 Morris K. Udall Scholar. She is one of 80 students nationwide to receive the $5,000 award. Stortz is active in multiple...
20 YEARS AGO August 2006 Photo caption: Three large cruise ships – the Zaandam, Regal Princess and Infinity – anchor in Eastern Channel today under overcast skies. A fourth cruise ship, the smaller Empress of the North, was tied up at the Petro...
20 YEARS AGO August 2006 Sitka High School class of 1956 will hold its 50th class reunion Aug. 11-12. All who have graduated from Sitka High down through the 1950s are invited. Those planning to attend are to call Pat, Muffett, Jon or Sam. 50...
20 YEARS AGO August 2006 From Police Blotter: At 1:30 a.m. people on Katlian Street said they hadn’t been consuming alcohol but agreed to dump the alcohol out. At 12:20 a.m. an intoxicated driver was reported on SMC. Officers found he...
20 YEARS AGO August 2006 Bears wandered into downtown Sitka over the weekend but there was no property damage and authorities said the bears were not aggressive. But Fish and Game Wildlife Biologist Phil Mooney said the problem will exist until...
20 YEARS AGO August 2006 Photo caption: Dana Pitts of Sitka Tours guides a group past the Wolf Pole in Sitka National Historical Park. The original totem pole was taken from Howkan, on Prince of Wales Island, in 1903, and reproduced in 1982 by...
20 YEARS AGO August 2006 Pauline Fredrickson is listed on the Sitka Football Program community calendar as having a birthday today. Saturday’s birthdays include those of Andrew T. Atkinson and Karen Dick. On Sunday, Joshua T. Kimzey is listed...
20 YEARS AGO August 2006 Ad: FISHERMEN’S EYE Presents: New work by New artists Vladimir Zhikhartsev, Rhonda Reaney, Nick Galanin. New work by your favorites Mark Bartlett, Rie Munoz, Sandra Greba, Pete Esquiro, Robert Rose. 50 YEARS AGO August...
20 YEARS AGO August 2006 Ad: New Fuel Dock Now Open Located 1 mile south of the Ferry Terminal along Halibut Point Road, next to the barge Landing. HALIBUT POINT MARINE SERVICES Boat Yard 88 Ton Travelift Marine Fuel Gear...
20 YEARS AGO August 2006 Family Campfire Talks will be held in the Starrigavan Amphitheater located along the Mosquito Cove Trail, near the trailhead. The theme is “Trees in the Tongass.” 50 YEARS AGO August 1976 Advertisement: If your...