Week of October 16, 2025
Week of October 16, 2025
Jaime Cabral, Petersburg High School and Mitkof Middle School Assistant Principal and Activities Director, was named the 2026 Assistant Principal of the Year by the Alaska Association of Secondary School Principals (AASSP) at a ceremony in Anchorage last weekend. The recognition came while Cabral was already in Anchorage, in the middle of coaching his volleyball team at a tournament. Cabral's wife Heidi picked him up between games, drove him across town to accept the award, and rushed him back...
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Though the federal government shutdown jeopardizes the program that subsidizes scheduled air service to more than 170 cities nationwide - including Wrangell and Petersburg - Alaska Airlines has said it will continue uninterrupted service to its contract communities in the state. The U.S. Department of Transportation, which manages the almost 50-year-old Essential Air Service program, had notified participating carriers that funding would run out on Oct. 12. But the department later sent out a...
Petersburg's municipal election received the highest number of ballots this year in over a decade. A total of 1,280 ballots were cast and canvassed, including one outstanding ballot. It was the highest turnout since Petersburg voted to become a borough in December 2012, which saw just over a hundred more ballots than this year. There were a couple of contested races for local office this year, namely for mayor and for Petersburg's Borough Assembly. It was Bob Martin's first time running for an...
The engine of a small plane failed on Oct. 7 near Petersburg with two occupants on board. The pilot emergency landed on a remote road on northern Kupreanof Island. But the plane - a Cessna 172 wheeled general aircraft, with small tires - hit a rock when landing and flipped over in the muskeg; both occupants were able to get out and walk away uninjured. That's according to two people from Petersburg's volunteer fire department, the pilot from Petersburg who picked them up from Kupreanof, and...
Construction is underway on an open-sided equipment storage shed adjacent to the Petersburg harbormaster's office, a project designed to protect the harbor's maintenance equipment from winter weather. The steel structure, being built on an existing timber dock at the intersection of Excel Street and Harbor Way, features a 10-foot interior clearance that slopes to 13 feet. The roof-only design, with open sides, will shelter harbor equipment including a telehandler, four-wheelers for...
This Saturday, the Petersburg Public Library is hosting the opening reception for TalisWoman, this year’s iteration of Petersburg’s long-running Women’s Art Show. While the library regularly features art displays and maintains a permanent art collection, hosting a curated exhibition complete with an opening reception is a rare occasion. The last time the library hosted a curated art show was the touring exhibition “Decolonizing Alaska” back in 2018, which spanned the library and the...
"I wanted to do something different, challenge myself as a director and challenge the students," says Elsa Wintersteen, director of Petersburg High School's drama program. "Doing something scary... that can actually evoke feelings of discomfort in people is a really hard thing to do." For this fall's production of Dracula, that challenge includes scaring the hometown audience, then, next summer, taking their show on the road to the largest theater festival in the world - Edinburgh Scotland's...
Los Angeles multi-instrumentalist/singer-songwriter Abby Posner will perform in Petersburg on Saturday, Oct. 18 and will lead a morning workshop on music theory and songwriting. Posner, who won the 28th Annual USA Songwriting Contest in 2023, is making a special stop in Petersburg during a weeklong Alaska tour centered around Parlor in the Round, an Anchorage-based songwriter showcase. Though Petersburg is not hosting the full Parlor event this year, the Petersburg Arts Council made special...
Search and rescue efforts continue in the Kuskokwim River delta in the aftermath of devastating storm surge and hurricane-force winds brought by the remnants of Typhoon Halong. The storm tore homes from their foundations and sent them floating away. One woman was found dead in Kwigillingok on Monday, according to Alaska State Troopers. The search for two more people unaccounted for in that community will continue, by boat and air, the state troopers said on a Facebook post. Search and rescue is... Full story
Officials with the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development have walked back a proposal to limit local governments’ funding for public schools, instead asking the State Board of Education to take no action on the item last week. The State Board of Education was set to vote on a controversial measure that many school officials and education advocates say would bar local municipalities from providing much-needed funding and support services to local schools. Instead the board voted unanimously on Thursday, at a DEED official’s... Full story
As Alaska’s population of working-age adults shrinks, according to economists, other demographic groups have become bigger segments of the labor force: seniors and teenagers. Residents who are 65 and older made up 6.2% of the Alaska worker population in 2023 after steadily increasing over two decades, according to an analysis by the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development. In 2003, that age group made up just 1.8% of all working Alaskans, according to the data. For teenagers, the two-decade trend has been different. In 2003,... Full story
The Petersburg High School Varsity Volleyball team played their first games of the season this past weekend to a solid start. At this point last year, the team was 1-8. Heading into their first conference games of the season, the team brings a 6-4 record to the court. “We played such an array of different teams that had different tendencies and played different styles, so that was huge for us,” head coach Jaime Cabral said. “We’re not extremely huge height wise, but athletically is...
For several seasons, the Petersburg High School Wrestling team has had reliable veterans such as Markus Anderson, Angus Olsen and Kaden Duke, who all graduated last year. The program is now entering a new era of Vikings wrestling with a wave of young talent and the coaching staff focused less on results and winning and more on unlocking the potential of this squad. “This team that we have is young. We have one senior [Tyson Reid] and he hasn’t wrestled since middle school. We have two...
No Kings is a Love-America day To the Editor: This Saturday, Alaska Day, millions across this nation are gathering for peaceful protests against the Trump administration’s authoritarian takeover of our government. Last Friday, Speaker Mike Johnson described this coming Saturday’s No Kings rally as the “Hate-America” rally that would draw the “antifa people.” They are so worried that We the People will speak truth and show power through peace. Antifa is short for Anti-Fascism. It is not an organization or terrorist group. Antifa is...
The federal government shutdown, driven by politics and personalities and posturing, is starting to cause a real mess. Particularly for travelers, where a shortage of air traffic controllers has led to delays and cancellations at several airports around the country. Maybe the bickering blame game will subside long enough this week to restore whatever order is salvageable in Washington, D.C., but it depends on congressional Democrats and Republicans and President Donald Trump putting the public ahead of their own elections grandstanding. Until...
Alvin Lee Nussbaumer was born June 19, 1950, in Bremerton, Washington, to Edwin and Maxine Joy Nussbaumer. After graduating from North Kitsap High School in 1972, he enlisted in the Army and served in Germany. After his discharge he went on to earn an associate degree in electronics. Alvin moved to Petersburg, Alaska, in 1978 and got a job at Petersburg Fisheries where he eventually became a supervisor. He also worked as a bartender at the Harbor Bar and Kito's Kave until around 2005. A very... Full story
October 08 – The Petersburg Police Department (PPD) received a report of a loud horn being sounded and determined it was the ferry. An officer conducted a welfare check on North 1st street. An officer responding to a report of possible smoke on Fram Street determined it was a building’s heating system exhaust. An officer provided lockout assistance on Kiseno Street. PPD received a report of suspicious activity on South Nordic Drive. PPD received a report of bike theft on North Nordic Drive. October 09 – An officer conducted a welfare...
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