Sitka’s Sustainability Commission is hoping to finalize a long-awaited plan for the future. When the Sitka Assembly meets tonight (4-28-26), it will consider the commission’s goals for the next year.

Remember that mysterious golden orb government scientists found at the bottom of the Gulf of Alaska in 2023? Was it an egg? A sponge? Remnants of a space alien? Scientists were baffled. Two-and-a-half years later, they say they’ve figured it out.