The assembly will consider eliminating the tax on personal property -- like pleasure boats -- tonight. It will also consider purchasing a computer-aided tax assessing program for $150,000 to help make up the loss.
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Managers Keith Nyitray and Holly Marban with the Sitka Food Co-op discuss their discounted food program for young families called "New Beginnings."
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Poet and novelist John Straley will read from his latest volume "100 Poems of Spring" 6 p.m. Friday December 23 in the Sitka Public Library.
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The Sitka grand jury indicted a man accused of burglarizing STA offices 12 times this fall; and reindicted a man for allegedly stabbing his opponent in a bar fight.
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Debe Brincefield is organizing this year's Christmas Community Dinner, hosted by the Alaska Native Brotherhood and the Alaska Native Sisterhood. The dinner will be Sunday, December 25 at 2 p.m. at ANB Founders Hall.
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Producer/trombonist Roger Schmidt describes his 'emotional arc' as the 13th Annual Holiday Brass concert has evolved to feature some of the country's finest brass players -- and his own daughter.
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Noted Tlingit weaver Teri Rofkar died in Sitka on December 2. Two years ago she sat down with Erika Apathy -- then a college student -- to discuss her life growing up in Sitka and in Pelican. Apathy agreed to share the interview with all of us.
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The deadline to register for the Wearable Arts Runway Show is February 22. Downloadable audio.
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The Alaska Native teenager at the epicenter of a tasing incident in Sitka last year has hired legal counsel. Though he’s not yet filed suit, the lawyer representing Franklin Hoogendorn intends to bring his case before a Sitka jury.
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Today marks the 50th anniversary of Alaska’s Good Friday Earthquake. The largest impact was felt at the epicenter, but 600 miles away in Sitka it still made a mark. Here are three short stories from people who were living in Sitka in 1964.
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