Week of April 3, 2025
Week of April 3, 2025
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While the total number of cruise ship visits to Petersburg will decline this summer, local tourism experts say the quality of port calls should actually increase. "I think after looking at the schedule, the numbers of port calls are down, however, the quality of port calls are high," said James Valentine, co-owner of Viking Travel. Petersburg will welcome 87 cruise ship visits in 2025, down from 104 the previous year. However, Valentine notes that many of last year's visits came at times when...
Southeast Alaska fishermen discovered Tuesday that harvest limits for Chinook salmon in 2025 will be almost 40 percent less than last year’s. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced an overall allocation of 130,800 treaty Chinook salmon — fish that didn’t originate in Alaska hatcheries — for all gear groups targeting Chinook in waters off Southeast Alaska and Yakutat in 2025. In recent years, Southeast Alaska’s all-gear allocation has ranged between a high of 355,600 treaty kings in 2016 down to 130,000 in 2018, Fish and...
The American Legion provided the first home for the Petersburg Public Library in 1931. Initially, it was a modest shelf of books donated by the community, managed by the American Legion Auxiliary in the Legion's building. This humble beginning eventually grew into the institution we know today. The collection was so small at first that some people even took out membership cards in the names of newborns to borrow more books. As time passed, the Alaska Territorial government and the City of...
WRANGELL - Without a real plan, Olivia Strano found herself in the right place at the right time. When she walked away from her work as a yacht stewardess and onto a Wrangell dock last summer, she felt she had found her home. "I've been searching for my place for 10 years, and Wrangell is everything I've been looking for," she said. While she was working a variety of jobs to make ends meet, she asked locals what was something that Wrangell needed but didn't have. Music, music venues and more...
The Petersburg High School Track and Field team enters 2025 surrounded by excitement, led by first-time head coach Erin Hofacre. Hofacre was an assistant for the 2022 cross country season. "Even back in high school, being part of coach [Tom] Thompson and then [Brad] Taylor's track teams, there were pieces of those teams that I see as successful – having a really strong team atmosphere," Hofacre said. "Making sure that the team knows they're in this together and supporting each other."...
Education Funding To the Editor: Article VII of the Alaska Constitution requires the Legislature to “maintain a system of public schools open to all children of the State.” Alaska Statute (Alaska Students’ Educational Bill of Rights (3)) states “A quality education for students of all ages is a concrete investment that vastly improves the future prosperity, welfare, productivity, and vitality of society.” The indisputable, mathematical fact is that at least for the last 10 years (years in which I served in the Alaska State House),...
April 3, 1925 – Earnest Kirberger, the merchant at Kake and fur farmer, was in town the forepart of the week with some choice blue fox pelts to be shipped to the New York auction sales. Mr. Kiberger says Kake is unusually lively this season with boats supplying clams from there to Mountain Point Packing Company below Scow Bay, and with three different logging camps operating in that section. He said Charles Knutson of the powerboat Katie and Arthur Johnson of the Woodrow are making regular trips to Mountain Point with clams. Mr. Kirberger...
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is announcing the 2025 sport fishing regulations for king salmon in marine waters of Southeast Alaska and Yakutat. These regulations will be effective 12:01 a.m. Thursday, April 3, 2025, through 11:59 p.m. Thursday, April 30, 2026. The regulations are: Alaska Resident The resident bag and possession limit is one king salmon, 28 inches or greater in length; From October 1 through March 31, a resident sport fish angler may use two rods when fishing for king...
Martha Luan Madole was born on April 12, 1960, in Tuscumbia, Missouri, to Orville and Wilma (McConnell) Alexander. In 1978 she graduated from Eldon High School in Eldon, Missouri, and joined the workforce as a secretary. She married Thomas Olaf Madole on December 8, 1979, at Blue Springs Baptist Church near Eldon, Missouri. After a while, Luan began to work with her husband as a pastor's wife. When her husband became a Village Public Safety Officer, she moved back to her hometown near Eldon to... Full story
Les Snyder, a beloved husband, father, grandfather, and teacher, passed away on March 13, 2025, at age 80. He was born on June 15, 1944, and lived a life filled with friends, adventure, and deep connections. Les began his life in Idaho, where he was a smoke jumper and pilot, then a teacher, husband, and father. He and Sue moved to Petersburg, Alaska, in 1978 and later to Washington State in 1994 before settling in Iowa in 2023 to be near their daughter, Heather. He was a dedicated teacher, he... Full story
March 26 - An officer conducted an extra patrol downtown. An officer provided advice to a citizen who reported a phone scam. A caller reported a vehicle with its lights left on. The owner was notified. A caller sought to have an individual hanging around an area on Excel Street trespassed. An officer conducted an extra patrol on Excel Street. March 27 - A caller wanted to know what to do about an individual hanging around S. 3rd Street. Officer advised caller to trespass the individual. A caller reported receiving a suspicious text message. A...
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