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Petersburg School District Superintendent Lisa Stroh submitted a letter of resignation to the Petersburg School Board December 31 citing family medical issues as her reason for resignation. Stroh requested administrative leave from December 16 through January 5, which the school board granted. "She felt a need to get down to Montana quickly," said school board member Sarah Holmgrain. "She asked for a leave of absence and while down there determined that she needed to stay." The board hired... Full story
Elections for five positions on the Petersburg Indian Association’s (PIA) Tribal Council will be held Monday at the ANB/ANS hall from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Eligible tribal members who are interested in declaring their candidacy or nominating a candidate must do so by 3:30 p.m. today at the PIA offices. “This time we have three 1-year terms, we also have one 2-year term and every year the board chair’s open so there’s a one year board person chair open,” said Tribal Resource Director Marco Banda. Banda said that so far five individuals have decl... Full story
January 9, 1915 – Delegate Wickersham has had incorporated in the appropriations bill an item of $25,000 for the survey of the Dry Strait. The survey is to be made with a view to ascertaining the feasibility of opening a channel through the strait. The prevailing opinion in this vicinity appears to be that the scheme is totally impracticable, and that the expending of the survey appropriation will be the last heard of it. The suggestion is also made that the sum of even $25,000 applied toward aids to navigation in the Narrows would be of t...
Volunteer bell ringers from the Rotary Club collected the largest kettle donations on record for Petersburg, nearly $6,000, as part of the Salvation Army’s Red Kettle campaign that ended Dec. 24. In all the campaign raised $16,292 this year. The Petersburg Vessel Owners Association racked in the second largest donations through their ringing efforts and First Bank garnered third place. In all about 20 individuals and groups manned kettles over the one month span of the campaign. The Red K...
Office hours with Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins at Java Hus Fri. Jan. 9th, 12-2 p.m. Come with questions, comments, and suggestions before the new legislative session starts....
Grant coordinator Ginger Evens updated the school board on recent initiatives of the Healthy Living Grant including recent staff training related to mindfulness based stress reduction techniques and dealing with childhood trauma. The Petersburg School district was one of eight Alaska school districts that were awarded the grant from the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services beginning last fiscal year. The district receives $150,000 annually, amounting to about $600,000 total during the grant’s four year duration. Recently, staff h...
About 30 seniors who previously received a sales tax exemption card from the Borough were not issued a new card after Borough staff reviewed eligibility following two ordinances that went into effect Jan. 1. The two eligibility changes require seniors – individuals age 65 and older – to be borough residents and to have resided in the borough for at least a year with intent to remain indefinitely and make a home here. Following similar requirements to receive a Permanent Fund Dividend from the...
December 30 A caller requested extra patrols on Lumber St. A caller reported a noise complaint where an individual was turning music up and down. Upon patrol of the area, an officer did not hear any noise. A subsequent caller reported a noise disturbance in the same area. Upon patrol an officer discovered loud music and the suspect agreed to turn it down. December 31 The Public Works crew responded to a report of icy road conditions. On a traffic stop a driver was issued a warning for speed. A warning for speed was issued by an officer to a...
The Lady Vikings took third place at the Clarke Cochran Christmas Classic Tournament in Ketchikan last week. After defeating a California team early in the tournament the Lady Vikings went on to face a tough game against Ketchikan where Petersburg lost 35-45. “It was a good physical game, especially defensively,” Head Coach Dino Brock said. “We struggled to shoot the basketball.” The Lady Vikings missed many scoring opportunities after shooting 13 for 29 from the free throw line. Petersb...
January 2 Anthony Curtiss appeared before Superior Court Judge William Carey for a change of plea and sentencing hearing on four charges. The defendant admitted to Violating Conditions of Release associated with two cases and was sentenced to a total of 10 days in jail or 80 hours of community work service in lieu of jail time. The defendant also pled guilty to Misconduct Involving a Weapon in the 4th Degree and was sentenced to 180 days in jail with 135 day suspended, two years of probation, counseling for anger, mental health and substance ab...
The Petersburg Vikings placed 4th last week in the Clarke Cochran Christmas Classic Tournament in Ketchikan. The Vikings went 1-1 during the first two games of the tournament and beat North Pole last Wednesday. Head Coach Rick Brock said the Petersburg squad kept up a good pace throughout the bout. The Vikings jumped out to an early lead in the first and second quarters with the score 28-11 at the half. “It was a great start for us,” Brock said. “They (North Pole) didn’t press us at the beginning of the game. It was the first game in the tou...
The Wrangell and Petersburg Assemblies will soon vote on an ordinance that will turn the Thomas Bay Power Commission (TBPC) into a member appointed advisory committee, activated only at the behest of both assemblies. The TBPC oversaw the Tyee Hydroelectric Plant until operations and management of the plant were transferred to the Southeast Alaska Power Authority (SEAPA) last summer. Since then, TBPC members, in conjunction with both municipalities’ assemblies, have been trying to figure out t...
The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (ADOT&PF) announced travel fares on the Alaska Marine Highway System will increase 4.5 percent starting May 1. The new fare structure went into effect with the new year, but will not affect reservations already made in advance. Some fares will not be affected by the new structure. The ADOT&PF release said fares that are “disproportionately higher” than the majority of AMHS fares will remain unchanged. The department reports the fare increase will help cover operating costs and mee...
JUNEAU (AP) — Isolated in the rainforest of Southeast Alaska, residents in Kake are thinking of alternative energy. In that, they're not unlike the inhabitants of any other rural Alaska community. What makes Kake special is the way it's approaching the topic. After exploring wind energy options in partnership with the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council in 2010, the Organized Village of Kake and five other Alaska Native communities received a U.S. Department of Energy grant for a different approach: solar power. Kake installed 24 solar p...
ANCHORAGE (AP) — There's an extra moose alive in southcentral Alaska thanks to three snowmobilers who freed it from an avalanche. Marty Mobley, Rob Uphus and Avery Vucinich, residents of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, on Sunday went riding on the west side of Hatcher Pass about 55 miles northeast of Anchorage, Alaska Dispatch News reported. With Alaska's unseasonably warm weather, they were wary of avalanches, Mobley said. The came upon a hillside that had both moose tracks and ski tracks. The latter stood out because they don't see many s...
SITKA (AP) — The CEO of Sitka's community hospital said he missed a meeting last week because he was assaulted. Jeff Comer said he could no longer stay in Sitka and planned to leave over the weekend. Comer was scheduled to appear at a meeting with the Sitka Assembly on Friday. But he instead sent the hospital board president to read a statement from him. Comer said he was willing to help the city and hospital as needed, from Arizona, KCAW reported. Sitka police Chief Sheldon Schmitt confirmed to the radio station that Comer called dispatch F...
Alaska still has its share of naysayers who will quibble about the seafood industry’s importance to our great state. They dismiss the fact that fishing was Alaska’s first industry and was fish that spawned the push to statehood. “The canned salmon plants started in the 1870s and by the early 20th century, canned salmon was the largest industry and generated 80% of the territorial tax revenues. It had a position in the state economy that oil enjoys today,” said fisheries historian Bob King. The fisheries that Alaska inherited from the federal...
Alvara Mary Wright was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, on June 8, 1925, to Edward and Eleanor Casper. Her insatiable appetite for reading bloomed as a young child and grew as she attended Catholic school in Sheboygan through high school. After high school, Vara moved to New York to study dance. Eventually, she moved back to Madison, Wisconsin, where she studied drama. She met Syd Wright when they were performing in the same production. Syd and Vara were married in 1952. They moved to Eau Claire,... Full story
The initial stages to repair a dock structure in Middle Harbor that was damaged in early September by the M/V Safari Explorer are underway after the Assembly approved a contract with PND Engineers at Monday's regular meeting. "Basically it was one of our small cruise ships and they hammered that float pretty good," Borough Manager Steve Giesbrecht said. "We had PND do an analysis of it and there's some pretty severe damage." The damage incurred by the 127-foot long vessel owned by Un-Cruise...
