DIVE PRACTICUM – Dive student Karson Winslow hands a discarded garden hose to SCUBA instructor Haleigh Damron, standing on the dock, at Crescent Harbor this afternoon. The University of Alaska Southeast Sitka Campus Dive Team is clearing trash from the harbor floor under floats 5, 6 and 7 as part of their instruction. Fourteen student divers are taking part this year. This is the fifth year the dive team has volunteered to clean up Sitka harbors. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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Daily Sitka Sentinel
January 27, 2023, Police Blotter
The following calls were recorded as of 8 a.m. today.
January 26
At 2:55 a.m. police were asked to assist a woman at a downtown bar but she declined help.
At 5:33 a.m. police were asked to make a welfare check on a man who hadn’t been in contact with a family member. He was advised
A woman reported someone had made charges on her credit card in Washington. She was advised on reporting the theft.
At 12:19 p.m. two juvenile girls were reported smoking marijuana in the Crescent Harbor restroom. Their families were contacted, and the marijuana disposed of.
At 3:38 p.m. a service station reported a customer had left without paying. He was contacted, and was to pay the bill. No charges were filed.
January 27
At 12:29 a.m. a man without a shirt on was reported in the middle of the road at HPR and Shelikof Way, engaging with vehicles. He hurt his head and was taken to the hospital to be checked.
Emergency Calls
Sitka Fire Department received four ambulance calls Thursday.
Coast Guard
Coast Guard Air Station Sitka had several medevacks over the last few days.
On Wednesday, a 51-year-old Wrangell woman with sepsis was flown to Ketchikan for care, with the helicopter taking off at 12:10 p.m. and landing in Ketchikan at 3:23 p.m.
On Thursday, the Air Station responded to two medevac calls. A helicopter was launched at 10:21 a.m. to pick up a 59-year-old woman in Haines, who had fallen and fractured a femur. The helicopter was called back, but relaunched at 1:31 p.m. with a different crew to pick up the woman and a second patient – a 57-year-old man with a hernia medical emergency.
Both were flown to Juneau, transferred at 7:36 p.m. to a Guardian Flight and taken to Anchorage.
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20 YEARS AGO
April 2004
Photo caption: Sitka High students in the guitar music class gather in the hall before the school’s spring concert. The concert was dedicated to music instructor Brad Howey, who taught more than 1,000 Sitka High students from 1993 to 2004. From left are Kristina Bidwell, Rachel Ulrich, Mitch Rusk, Nicholas Mitchell, Eris Weis and Joey Metz.
50 YEARS AGO
April 1974
The Fair Deal Association of Sealaska shareholders selected Nelson Frank as their candidate for the Sealaska Board of Directors at the ANB Hall Thursday.