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January Following the shutdown of the U.S. government on Dec. 22, 2018, the U.S. Coast Guard stated it would continue offering essential services. The borough assembly approved $600,000 for a new baler. The USCG located debris from an overdue medivac aircraft that had three people onboard that was due to land in Kake several nights before. A decrease in air cargo coming into Petersburg affected the timely arrival of residents' packages after the retirement of Alaska Airlines' combi 737-400...
Along with the lights, the trees and carolers, the Salvation Army's red Christmas kettles are a very common sight during the holiday season. Standing in front of stores and on street corners, volunteers accept donations for the Salvation Army with ringing bells and the iconic red buckets. The Christmas kettles are a century-old tradition, according to the Salvation Army's website. In 1891, Salvation Army Captain Joseph McFee organized a fundraiser, where people could throw money into a large...
January 9, 1920 Petersburg is experiencing one of the mildest winters for years. The temperature has ranged around thirty to fifty above zero for the past two weeks. Early in December a touch of cold weather was experienced when a light fall of snow covered the ground and the temperature dropped to zero for a few hours one night, but this soon passed away and rain has cleared the ground of its snow. The old reliable early bird, the elder berry bushes are bursting into bud, and unless they get a setback will soon all sprout green leaves....
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - A new federal law is set to increase the national age limit for tobacco and e-cigarette purchases to 21, which will require Alaska to meet a standard that has already been established in Anchorage. Alaska law currently allows anyone 19 and older to buy tobacco, although Anchorage took legal steps four months ago to raise the age limit to 21, The Anchorage Daily News reported Wednesday. Unless the Alaska Legislatures changes state laws, the new federal law will force an...
Dec. 4 – Christopher Lee Malcom entered a no contest plea to charges of driving while license revoked for DUI. The defendant was sentenced to 10 days in jail with 10 suspended, a $200 fine and $200 in service charges. Patrick Short entered a no contest plea to amended charges of driving while license revoked for DUI. The court sentenced the defendant to 10 days in jail with 10 suspended, a $200 fine and a suspended $100 service charge. Dec. 9 -- The court will recommend to Judge Carey to grant possession of property and back rent in the a...
Dec. 23 – A gun was returned to its Haugen Dr. owner. Police responded to a noise complaint on Kiseno St. Dec. 24 – An officer responded to a report of a male found in a homeowner’s carport on Gjoa St. A warning was issued for speed on Sandy Beach Rd. Dec. 25 – Police responded to a disturbance at Magills. Dec. 26 – A firearm theft was reported at a Haugen Dr. location. Dec. 27 – A protective order was served at a Hungerford Hill location. A theft was reported at a N. Nordic Dr. location. Chad Lopez, 18, was arrested on a charge of DUI and mis...
WRANGELL - Wrangell's Convention and Visitor Bureau met last Monday, Dec. 23, to continue their ongoing work on putting together a "tourism best management practices" document for the city. This conversation began back in November. A growing tourism industry in Wrangell has highlighted the need for some form of guidelines, as well as concerns about how future tourism might impact the community's day-to-day life. Tourism best management practices, or TBMPs, are a way to help ease friction...
JUNEAU – As climate change rapidly alters conditions in southeast Alaska, lower snowpack levels have caused a massive decline of yellow-cedar trees. Without an insulating blanket of snow, the shallow roots of yellow-cedar trees freeze during late spring cold snaps. Left behind is a growing expanse of "ghost forests" of dead yellow-cedars, affecting roughly 678,000 acres (nearly the area of Yosemite National Park). The decay-resistant properties of yellow-cedar allow the trees to remain s...
Alaska’s seafood industry will be “open for business” starting January 1 when some of the biggest fisheries get underway long before the start of the first salmon runs in mid-May. Cod will begin it all in the Bering Sea, which has a 305.5 million pound catch quota, down about a million pounds from 2019. Less than 6 million pounds of codfish will come out of the Gulf. A 400,000 Tanner crab fishery at Kodiak starting on January 15 will be helpful to a town whose economic bottom line will be badly battered by the Gulf cod crash. But it will be th...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A project that maintains seismic monitoring stations in Alaska needs more funding to continue fully operating, officials said. Scientists, lawmakers and federal agencies are promoting the permanent installation of the Transportable Array Network, The Anchorage Daily News reported Tuesday. The National Science Foundation project was installed temporarily beginning in 2014. The stations can monitor earthquake activity and track weather, wildfires and volcanoes. The system can also detect North Korean nuclear testing, o...
"Born with a paintbrush in hand" in St. Albins, VT in 1899, Sister Eva LeDoux showed an early talent for art. She was one of fifteen children, several of whom were called to religious service. Art studies took her all over the world, including Montreal and Paris. She entered the Community of Sisters at age 20, first coming to Alaska as a travel companion to a fellow nun, and returning several times. In Ketchikan, she helped found the School of Art and taught at the community college. Our museum...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A Washington state man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a woman in a southeast Alaska village two years ago, Alaska State Troopers announced. Isaac Friday, 27, of Waitsburg, Washington, is charged in the 2017 death of Jade Williams, 19. of Kake, a city of 600 on Kupreanof Island about 95 miles (153 kilometers) southwest of Juneau. Deputies from the Walla Wall County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday arrested Friday in Dayton, Washington. Friday is in custody in the Walla Walla County jail with bai...
