From the Daily Sitka Sentinel POLICE BLOTTER (dum da dum dum)
**A car was reported to have crossed over the center line on Halibut Point Road.
**A bear reportedly ran in front of a vehicle near the Sitka National Historical Park, then up the hill near the Alaska Raptor Center.
**A man sitting in a car with four flat tires in front of the Post Office was asked to leave the vehicle since it wasn't his.
And that, folks, is the news from Sitka today. Well that and the fact that I hiked .8 miles up the Crosstrail with Connie and Marcel.
They were going on another 3.5 miles to the top. 
I parted ways and went on my own, singing to myself [and to warn the bears of my presence] all the way down. I was terrified the entire time, but when I met up with a couple, the man told me that the bears are all at the streams now, waiting for the salmon runs upstream, so there were none here.Well that and the fact that I carried on a conversation with a raven today. I swear, it's eerie ("quoth the raven 'nevermore'"). Anyway, I asked him simple yes and no questions. And after I finished speaking he would caw. Then I would say another sentence and it was as if he was responding: "Were you here when I was last in Sitka?" -- "caw caw caw caw" --- "Do you remember me?" --- "caw caw caw caw"
"My name is Dee" -- "caw caw" -- "What is your name?" -- "caw caw" (I know, that last one wasn't a yes or no question).
And THAT'S the news from Sitka today.
