Sitka Community Playground recently received a 'Facility Excellence' award from the Alaska Recreation and Park Association at their October annual meeting in Fairbanks in 2019. Check out the 'Award' video....
At the very least, Monique Anderson must be one of very few landscape architects who have had a truly "floating office" (her words). Each summer, she spends the bulk of her time traversing the aquatic reaches of the Last Frontier. Along with her husband, Blain, she...
A celebration for the opening of Centennial Park, the latest addition to town and the Petersburg Public Library, took place last weekend with around 100 people showing up for the event. Locals gathered on the Birch Street boardwalk were treated to Janet Holten singing "Alaska's...
Visitors to the Sitka Fine Arts Camp may have noticed the new walkways and landscaping around Odess Theater and Allen Hall this summer. The new walkways were built thanks to the support of Carol Odess and other donors, according to Sitka Fine Arts Camp Director Roger...
The Crescent Harbor playground has been around since the development of the boat harbor and the Centennial Building in the late 60s. Playground advocate Bridget Hitchcock peered around the room for someone in their forties or fifties who played on the original equipment. She didn’t have to...