20 YEARS AGO May 2006 Sen. Bert Stedman says Sitka projects on the capital budget list includes $110,000 for Sitka High gym equipment; $50,000 for shooting range improvements; $100,000 for a double ramp at Starrigavan; and $110,000 for upgrades...
20 YEARS AGO May 2006 Sitka Rose Gallery will present a joint exhibit by Sitka artists Bud Laws and his daughter Teri Rofkar. ... Rofkar will display her new Raven's Tail weavings. She recently finished a full-size Raven's Tail robe...
20 YEARS AGO April 2006 Southeast Music Festival is being held here this week at Sitka High School, with about 500 music students participating .... SHS junior Finn Straley said the "music fest is what you work for as a band," noting he...
20 YEARS AGO April 2006 Sitka Tribe of Alaska and the U.S. Forest Service have reaffirmed their government-to-government relationship by signing a memorandum of understanding in Sheet'ka Kwaan Naa Kahidi. Tongass Supervisor Forrest Cole and STA...
20 YEARS AGO April 2006 The Sawmill Creek Industrial park board has reaffirmed its position to limit retail sales at the park. Not permitted will be department and variety stores, and stores that sell liquor, books, videos, art, jewelry, hobby...
20 YEARS AGO April 2006 The Department of Fish and Game has set higher king salmon limits for resident and non-resident sports anglers. Residents can bag or possess daily limits of three kings of 28" or greater with no annual limit; last year it...
20 YEARS AGO April 2006 The 9th Annual Honoring Women Dinner and Auction honorees are Duna Williamson of ANS Camp 4; Laura Timmons of USCG Spouses & Women's Association; Karin Mullins of SAFV; Judy Johnstone of Sitka Woman's Club; and...
20 YEARS AGO April 2006 Sitka Community Hospital Surgery Suite is being dedicated and renamed in memory of longtime employee David E. Knox. The public is invited to attend the unveiling of a memorial plaque. 50 YEARS AGO April 1976
20 YEARS AGO April 2006 Earth Day will be a daylong celebration. The City of Sitka, Sitka Conservation Society, Sheldon Jackson College, Sitka Tribe of Alaska, and others are hosting activities over the week to raise environmental awareness and...
20 YEARS AGO April 2006 Three Sitka nonprofits were awarded capital grants through the Rasmuson Foundation.They are Greater Sitka Arts Council $19,400 for a Wild Fish mural on Katlian; SAFV $11,461 for shelter repairs; and Island Institute...
20 YEARS AGO April 2006 The American Red Cross of Alaska has recognized Myrna Lang for her action in evacuating the Sitka Hotel in the fire of January 9. Lang, hotel manager, was among 25 Alaskans honored in Anchorage as Red Cross ConocoPhillips...
20 YEARS AGO April 2006 Photo caption: Blatchley Middle School students Aren Vastola and Berett Wilber have their photo taken in the school library after returning from the state geography and spelling bees in Anchorage. Vastola was third in the...
20 YEARS AGO April 2006 Sitka Economic Development Association Director Hugh Bevan unveiled a plan at the Assembly meeting for affordable housing on Jarvis Street that keeps the land in the city's hands while making modular housing available for...
20 YEARS AGO April 2006 Photo caption: Jon Hickman of Sitka Sound Seafoods and Ron McClain of Mac's Sporting Goods and Russell's present checks of $750 to members of the Greater Sitka Arts Council for the Marine Services Building mural project....
20 YEARS AGO April 2006 Photo caption: Children's librarian Tina Johnson wraps up a meeting of Raven-ous Readers, the family book group at Kettleson Memorial Library. From left are Emma Combs, Cory Combs, Joe Pate, Will Pate and Celia Lubin. 50...
20 YEARS AGO April 2006 Fifty years ago Sitka Community Hospital opened its doors to serve the community in a single-story wood framed building on Moller Drive, with a 24-bed capacity. This Tuesday the hospital will celebrate 50 years of caring...
20 YEARS AGO April 2006 In creating a list of "Seven Remarkable Bridges of the West," Via Magazine editors were so taken with Sitka's John O'Connell Memorial Bridge they put it on the cover of the travel magazine. Senior Editor Leslie Endicott...
20 YEARS AGO April 2006 Photo caption: Jonathon Kreiss-Tomkins defends his position to Adrienne Wilber in Saturday's debate event in the Southeast Drama, Debate and Forensics Tournament at Mt. Edgecumbe High. The team of Wilber and Emily Corso...
20 YEARS AGO April 2006 City Environmental Superintendent Mark Buggins says his department has been receiving a number of calls related to the upcoming switchover temporarily of the city's drinking water source from Blue Lake to Indian River....
20 YEARS AGO April 2006 Sitka High will stay in the Class 4A "large schools" division for the sports and activities next year, the School Board decided Tuesday. The decision came on a 3-2 vote rejecting a motion to reclassify Sitka into the...