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The borough assembly signed on to a Salmon Beyond Borders letter on Monday to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to act against Canada's inadequate mining regulations in British Columbia. Watershed from Canada's abandoned, proposed, developing and operating large-scale mines in B.C. impact or pose a great risk to American interests as the watershed from the mines flow into the United States, according to the letter. Salmon Beyond Borders asks that the U.S. Department of State work with Global...
Over six emergency flares were fired into the sky just before 8 P.M. on Sunday in the area of Farragut River, but the United States Coast Guard determined that individuals at one of the cabins were just disposing of expired flares. Dennis Rogers and his family were anchored in Francis Anchorage of Farragut Bay when they saw a red parachute flare slowly descending from the Farragut River area, Rogers said in a written statement to the Pilot. Rogers immediately called the Coast Guard Sector Juneau...
A portion of Haugen Dr. near the Petersburg Public Library was blocked off on Monday while crews repaired a bad water valve. While trying to track a potable water leak at the Presbyterian Church property on Friday, Public Works staff closed off a valve in the Haugen Dr. and 2nd St. intersection, according to Public Works Director Chris Cotta. The valve then began to leak. Because work to repair the valve would take place next to a state street, the borough spent Friday coordinating with the stat...
Aaron Hankins was driving south on the Haines Highway on Aug. 31, down a long grade, when he saw two juvenile brown bears running with traffic on the side of the road. He glanced at the bears as he passed them and continued down the highway until he saw a man on a bicycle on the opposite side of the road coming up the grade. "Do you want to sit in the passenger seat and wait for them to go by?" asked Hankins when he pulled over to warn the cyclist of the coming bears. The man, who did not have...
Both the boys and the girls Petersburg High School cross country teams took second place at their third meet of the season in Craig on Saturday. Sophomore Uriah Lucas placed second in the meet, finishing with a time of 17:29.03. Junior Maia Cowan place third in the girls race with a time of 21:19.47. The second and third top Vikings on the boys team were Kole Sperl and Michael Durkin who took fifth and seventh place respectively. For the girls team, Kendra Coonrad and Melanie Chase came in...
Karen Nelson has taught rosemaling all over the country, and last week, she was in Petersburg teaching a hands on course on how flowers and scrolls make up the different styles of rosemaling. It is how each artist puts the flowers together on the item they're decorating and how they paint the strokes that creates a particular style. In the Telemark region, roses are secondary to the C and S strokes. In contrast, the Hallingdal style uses large flowers and smaller scrolls. The rosemaling...
Three elementary school teachers and one high school teacher have begun teaching in the Petersburg School District. Hillary Mullen is teaching kindergarten. Heidi Cabral was originally going to be a fourth grade teacher at the start of the school year, but she became an elementary special education teacher. Carla Green is teaching fifth grade, and Ioana Ward is the new science teacher at Petersburg High School. Mullen was studying at the University of Wyoming when she participated in an...
A second forum was held last Thursday after the mayoral forum for the four assembly candidates running for two seats on the borough assembly. The candidates gave support for local issues and answered questions from representatives from KFSK, the Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and the Petersburg Pilot. Vice Mayor Jeigh Stanton Gregor, Marc Martinsen, Chelsea Tremblay and Aaron Hankins were each asked the same questions and had two minutes to respond. The order of the candidates changed with each...
The Petersburg Police Department served search warrants at 410 Mitkof Highway at approximately 3:50 P.M. on Tuesday, Sept. 10 and found distribution quantities of heroin and methamphetamine with a combined street value of approximately $61,670, according to police. Carter Gueller, 30, was arrested and booked into the Petersburg jail on charges of misconduct involving a controlled substance in the second degree, a class A felony, misconduct involving a controlled substance in the third degree, a... Full story
Following the Public Works fire last month that caused a storage shed to go up in flames, investigators are at odds as to what caused the fire, according to Public Works Director Chris Cotta. An investigator with the borough's insurance company is looking at a potentially faulty extension cord as the source of the fire, but the State Fire Marshal's office hasn't located a definitive source, and has not ruled out any causes, including arson, said Cotta. The Motor Pool shop which is located next...
Members of the United States Forest Service met with the public last week to receive feedback and discuss the Central Tongass Project. The project encompasses many different projects in four categories: watershed restoration, recreation management, vegetation management and access management. Project Leader Carey Case said by lumping multiple projects together, the forest service will be able to work more efficiently. Goals and objectives of the project were identified in the 2016 Tongass Land...
The borough shut off their diesel generators Monday after running them for a week while Southeast Alaska Power Agency was performing maintenance on the Tyee Lake hydro project. A helicopter was used to work on overhead transmission lines, and a crew inspected and tested the soundness of the wooden poles on the south end of Mitkof Island, according to Public Works Director Karl Hagerman. SEAPA also worked on their governors and tested transformers at the Tyee Lake project. Additionally, work was...
Two Petersburg High School seniors took first place in the 100 yard freestyle event over the weekend in the first swim meet of the season. Maria Pfundt took first in the girls 100 yard freestyle with a time of 59.77, and Peter Kowalski came in first place in the boys event at 51.68. Pfundt also placed second in the girls 200 yard freestyle with a time of 2:15.05. Six events after his first place win, Kowalski came in second place in the boys 100 yard backstroke with a time of 1:00.55. "The kids...
Half of 18 Petersburg High School runners that competed in the home cross country meet on Saturday set new personal records. PHS Sophomore Uriah Lucas came in third place overall in the meet and broke his previous personal record by about 58 seconds with a time of 17:22.2. Senior Melanie Chase was the top Viking runner in the girls race and took 13th place with a time of 21:52. Kole Sperl and Michael Durkin were the second and third fastest Viking runners and placed 12th and 26th in the race....
Cannery Park has been taking shape in the past few weeks, but Icicle Seafoods Plant Manager Patrick Wilson said more improvements are still on the way for the one-time storage lot. Wilson has been spearheading the project, which began about five years ago in the downtown area. The lot that Cannery Park sits on is owned by Icicle Seafoods. The Fryer building was eventually torn down after it began to fall apart, and Icicle Seafoods used it as a storage lot. Wilson said he wanted to display the...
Lee's Clothing has been offering products that have been handpicked with Petersburg residents in mind since 1969, and today, Sept. 5, they will be celebrating their 50th anniversary. When Lee's Clothing first opened, it was located across the street at what is now the Petersburg Pilot. The store focused on men's and young men's clothing, because Roxy Lee, founder and president of Lee's Clothing, saw a gap in the market. She credits her many years of success to good customer service, loyal...
Hailing from a small island in northern Norway, two brothers were in Petersburg last week to see where their aunt immigrated to in the 1920s and to visit her granddaughter, Irene Littleton. Karl Rasmus Dahle and Arild Jens Dahle are twins who were born on May 15, 1942. They live on an island called Andoya with an area of roughly 311 square miles. Karl lives in Stave, a small village of less than 40 inhabitants on the western side of the island, and Arild lives about 25 miles away on the other...
A new group of students began the two-year nursing program offered at Petersburg Medical Center through the University of Alaska, Anchorage last month. "We're really excited," said Jennifer Bryner, one of the instructors and a registered nurse at PMC. "It seems like a great group. They're very eager to get going, but it's a lot for anybody. They really take on a huge commitment." Like a traditional college environment, the students will have to complete four semesters of school, and enjoy...
An assessment of Mountain View Manor by the Fox Group in July found that the facility is effectively run and that there are no recommendations at this time to improve the facility's financial position. "That's a good and bad thing to hear," said Borough Manager Steve Giesbrecht at an assembly meeting last month. "It's a good thing meaning it's managed very well. It's a bad thing in the sense that there's not necessarily ways to make that place break even." The borough assembly directed...
There are about 33 projects on Petersburg Indian Association's Tribal Transportation Program (TTP) four-year priority list, but high up on the list are several pedestrian trails and sidewalks. At a TTP meeting last month, Director Sue Harai said the funded projects are based on a four-year tribal transportation improvement program. A long range transportation plan spanning 20-years must be developed and updated by PIA in order to receive federal funding for the transportation needs of tribal gov...
Two Petersburg High School students placed personal records at the first cross country meet of the season on Saturday. Sophomore Uriah Lucas came in 13th place at the Juneau meet and set a new personal record at 18:00. Sophomore Michael Durkin came in 31st place and set a new personal best at 19:18. Head Coach Thomas Thompson said the runners had a tough week of practices leading up to the meet, but still performed well. "They ran on tired legs," said Thompson. Overall, the boys team came in...
A Petersburg High School graduate broke two 50-year-old school records at the United States Coast Guard Academy this spring. Ben Zarlengo set a new school record in the discus and hammer, throwing 49.7 meters and 56.4 meters respectively. Zarlengo said the two previous school records were about 50-years-old. Both records were broken in April when Zarlengo was competing at an invitational at Connecticut College. In February, Zarlengo broke a weight throw record with his distance of 18.71 meters....
Voters will decide if they want the borough to take out loans to fund eight utility projects totaling no more than $8 million after the assembly passed ordinance #2019-05 in its third reading last week. The loans will be through the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation and will be paid back over a 20-year period at 1.5 percent interest. The responsibility of the repayment of the loans would fall on water and wastewater rate payers. The wastewater department has five projects planned...
The Petersburg School District maintains a higher percentage of students scoring proficient or higher in English language arts (ELA), math and science in statewide testing. The Performance Evaluation for Alaska's Schools test is given to students between 3rd and 10th grade each spring. The ELA and math tests are given to all students from 3rd to 9th grade, and the science test is only given to 4th, 8th and 10th graders. According to PSD Superintendent Erica Kludt-Painter, the PEAKS tests are...
An ordinance that would have added language to borough code outlining a procedure for addressing the assembly by written comment was stricken down at an assembly meeting last week. Ordinance #2019-07 would have clearly stated how members of the public could submit written comment to the assembly, but in its first reading, an amendment was made that prevented assembly members from reading written statements by members of the public out loud at assembly meetings. "I think that there needs be a...
