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Paving proposal unanimously The Petersburg Borough Assembly passed a resolution Tuesday to approve a program known as a local improvement district or LID. The program is taking a private approach to funding paving improvements in a select number of neighborhoods around town. Public Works director Karl Hagerman gave details about the program at the assembly’s last meeting and assembly members asked for a resolution prior to granting any approval. The time also allowed assembly members to learn more about LID and why Hagerman was so passionate a...
January Public Works rolled out the borough's highly anticipated blue cart recycling program. The borough received $820,117.61 from the annual raw fish tax. Dave Zimmerman was hired as the new Tongass National Forest Petersburg District Ranger. The assembly continued discussing the reallocation of the Kake access road funding. Representative Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins took part in a budget crisis presentation at Sons of Norway Hall. The visit was the first of many by representatives throughout the...
January 6, 1917 – C. A. Arness has installed a power gurdy and winch in Capt. Strand’s gasboat Agnes. The boat was also recently equipped with a new fourteen-horse-power engine. The Agnes has heretofore been fishing at the Stikine, but will now be used for halibut fishing. Mr. Arness also completed this week a rather intricate job of oxy-acetylene welding for Pete Constrad’s logging boat. In an accident the friction drum and clutch had been broken into fourteen pieces. These were all welded into place, making the drum and clutch as subst...
December 28 Suspicious activity was reported on S. Nordic Dr. December 29 There was a call concerning drugs on N. Nordic Dr. Suspicious activity was reported on N. Nordic Dr. December 30 Suspicious activity was reported at Hungerford Hill. There was a call concerning trespassing on Birch St. A traffic hazard was reported on Frederick Dr. A call concerning criminal mischief on Excel St. was received. A motor vehicle accident occurred on Sandy Beach Rd. Suspicious activity was reported at N. 1st and Gjoa St. January 1 Suspicious activity was...
January 3 Orion Fenner appeared before Magistrate Judge Burrell for arraignment on a charge of commercial fishing illegal storage of crab pots. Fenner pled no contest and was sentenced to pay a $300 fine with a $10 surcharge. January 4 Kayle Thorsen appeared before Magistrate Judge Burrell for arraignment on a charge of failure to give immediate notice of an accident. Thorsen entered a not guilty plea and was released on her own recognizance. A representation hearing is set for Feb 16....
On Dec. 22, 2016, the Alaska State Troopers received a report from an adult female that her daughter in law was trying to get into her Kake residence after being told to leave. A physical altercation occurred where both parties received minor injuries. The incident will be sent to the Sitka District Attorney’s Office for review. On Dec. 23, 2016, at about 1611 hours, Prince of Wales based State Troopers conducted a traffic stop on a 1996 Dodge Dakota pickup for an equipment violation on South Thorne Bay Road. The investigation resulted in t...
Borough finance director Jody Tow recently had a small scare concerning the annual fish tax the borough receives from the state. The original figure the state gave Tow was $336,847, which would have been the lowest in 15 years, but after reaching out for confirmation she was told the figure was only half of what Petersburg would receive. Tow said the borough will receive almost $337,000 as an initial payment, then get an additional $327,000 due to a timing issue with the state’s fiscal year cut off. If it wasn’t a scare for Tow, it was def...
The borough assembly held its first meeting of 2017 on Tuesday, and had a somewhat full slate on the agenda including a noncompliance hearing of an order to vacate and repair or demolish a dangerous building at 510 Lumber St. Borough building official Joe Bertagnoli and Power and Light electrician Gary Morgan gave oral and written evidence documenting the dangers at the location. Both borough employees said multiple attempts have been made to bypass the borough’s efforts to keep people out of the property by diverting power. The location is u...
Petersburg High School 2008 graduate, Alix Oyler, has graduated summa cum laude from University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA). She received a Bachelors degree in Medical Laboratory Science on December 18 with Departmental Honors. She will start work at Mt. Edgecumbe SEARHC Hospital in Sitka as a Medical Laboratory Scientist....
JUNEAU (AP) – Attorneys want a federal judge to halt temporarily proceedings in a long-running legal dispute between the group behind the proposed Pebble Mine project and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The motion, made by attorneys for the EPA and Pebble Limited Partnership on Friday, asks that proceedings in the case be halted until March 20, at which time the parties would jointly propose how they wish to move forward. The motion states the two sides have been talking since August about ways to resolve the case. Pebble has a...
WRANGELL – A lifelong Wrangell resident, Lawrence Bahovec, celebrated his 100th birthday this week. Asked how he felt about reaching the milestone, he joked: "It makes me feel old." He was born in Chicago on January 4, 1917. Alaska and Hawaii both were still territories at the time, the United States had not yet joined into the fighting alongside the Allied Powers during the Great War, and Wrangell was still very much a frontier town on the nation's periphery. At a very young age, Bahovec was...
The Lady Vikings’ basketball team traveled to Anchorage for the Rally of The Regions Tourney and ended up going 3-1. Head coach Dino Brock said the team performed well all weekend and he had no complaints about dropping a game. “I was very happy with the first games of the year,” Brock said. “I thought we got exactly what we wanted. We saw improvement from every player, from the first game to the last game.” The team also impressed coach Brock with its improvement on offense and defense as the weekend progressed. The junior varsity team show...
Head coach Rick Brock liked playing four games against unfamiliar teams with different styles last weekend in Anchorage, and the Vikings won all their games by double digits. The non-conference games gave the Vikings a warm up for Haines this weekend, where the boys will continue to contribute as a team and show their depth. “One of our strengths this year will be the fact, that most times, we can have five guys on the floor that have the capability of scoring,” he said. “That makes it difficult for other teams to guard us.” The play of juni...
ANCHORAGE (AP) – A union representing nearly 8,000 state employees has filed a complaint against Gov. Bill Walker and his administration for an alleged violation of contract. The Alaska State Employees Association filed the class-action grievance Tuesday in response to Walker’s recently announced budget plan for next fiscal year. The union takes issue with a part of the plan that calls for downsizing Department of Transportation staff and privatizing the majority of the agency’s design team. The grievance says plans to privatize union membe...
The start of 2017 marks the 26th year for this weekly column that targets news for and about Alaska’s seafood industry. The goal is to make all readers more aware of the economic and cultural importance of our state’s first and oldest industry. Today, Alaska fishermen and processors provide 65 percent of our nation’s wild-caught seafood; it is also Alaska’s most valuable export to more than 100 countries around the world. The seafood industry puts more people to work throughout Alaska than oil/gas, mining, timber and tourism combined. The bul...
WRANGELL – Wrangell's second-largest travel lodging has been sold, and will be repurposed as a senior housing and assisted living center this spring. The owners of the Sourdough Lodge sold the property to a group of buyers, who are currently renovating its rooms and preparing it for the new use. Once completed, by April 1 the lodge will be rechristened Harbor House Assisted Living Center and Senior Housing. One of the buyers, Shannon Bosdell, explained the facility will fill a need in the com...
Last week’s story on the Salvation Army Christmas collections stated the collections were $17,000 under the amount budgeted for the event. $17,000 was the target goal for the Christmas Season collections....
Katherine Crusoe Thomas was born Dec. 26, 2016 to Heather and Brandon Thomas at Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau. Baby Katie weighed 6lbs 6oz, and measured 20 inches in length....
PETERSBURG (AP) – The U.S. Forest Service is moving forward with a project to restore a stream south of Petersburg. Ohmer Creek has been damaged by decades-old logging and road-building where it crosses under Mitkof Highway about 21 miles south of Petersburg. During construction of the roadway in 1959 and 1960, trees were cut from about 20 acres around the stream, leaving a swath of the creek where heavy rains can erode the banks, KFSK-FM reported. Forest Service hydrologist Heath Whitacre said the project is planning to add wood, create new s...
