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Tribal members cast over 100 ballots in the annual Petersburg Indian Association election held on Monday - a voter turnout around four times higher than last year. Four candidates challenged council incumbents for seats, running on a united ticket and winning the race by a large margin according to the unofficial election results. Debra O'Gara received 74 votes and will be the new council president, serving a one-year term. Incumbent president Cris Morrison received 33 votes. When the vote for...
In Sitka, an academic institution called Outer Coast is expanding into a two-year college - marking a major milestone for both the institution and higher education offerings in Alaska. For the last handful of years in operation, Outer Coast has offered post-secondary and gap year programs for highschool graduates, as well as summer seminars for high school students to earn college credit. While the year-long academic year programs and summer seminars cultivated Outer Coast's values and... Full story
The 2024 commercial Tanner crab and golden king crab season in Southeast opens Feb. 17 at noon, and the registration deadline for both fisheries is Jan. 18. For the 2024 golden king crab season, fishermen will be required to call-in to the department every single day. Mandatory call-ins the day before to state what management area they plan to fish in is new this year, beginning Feb. 16. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) announced the guideline harvest level (GHL) in Registration...
January 11, 1924 – With $30,000 capital, subscribed by forty residents of Wrangell, a cold storage plant will be erected at Wrangell and be placed in operation in the spring, according to the Wrangell Sentinel. The plant will be in the charge of Oliver D. Leet, a cold storage engineer. The coming of Mr. Leet to establish a business that is greatly needed here is an example of how the tourist business may become a means of developing the country. During the past summer, Dr. D.H. Leet, a prominent surgeon of the Buckeye state, accompanied by h...
This fall’s energy relief payment, which would go out along with the annual Permanent Fund dividend, is looking smaller than expected several months ago. The “bonus” on the 2024 dividend would come from state revenues in excess of what is needed to cover the spending plan approved by lawmakers and the governor last spring. The Legislature included a provision in the state budget that said half of any surplus would go into savings and half into an energy relief payment to Alaskans. The latest projection for the fall payment is about $175, Alexe...
Around 60 community members answered Bennett McGrath’s call to join together at the ballfield and send a message of love and support to the Rodney and Mindy Anderson family as they go through a very difficult time. Many of the Anderson’s friends and neighbors joined together in the shape of a heart for the aerial photograph taken by Mike Lane of Sunrise Aviation from Wrangell....
The Future of Farming at Point Agassiz To the Editor: My wife and I own 17 acres at Point Agassiz and we’re starting a farm. It’s an amazing place and we love being there; maybe it’s the glacial rebound but something about it feels truly uplifting. A century ago eight families and one bachelor claimed homesteads there to farm. They produced good food, especially dairy from cows grazing the abundant grass. Socioeconomic trends of the 20th century pulled that first wave of farmers back to civilization. But some people still live at Point Agass...
January 3 – An officer provided assistance on North 3rd Street. Matthew Davis was arrested on Haugen Drive for allegedly violating the conditions of a domestic violence protective order. An individual on Excel Street spoke with officers regarding a civil issue. An officer responded to the activation of a medical alert and assisted an individual on Wrangell Avenue. An officer provided lockout assistance on North 3rd Street. Petersburg Police Department (PPD) received a report of a theft on 6th Street. An officer secured an open door on Scow B...
Entering its second year, the Petersburg Bike Park is off to a good start of 2024 with volunteers working twice in a week during a streak of accommodating weather. On New Year's Day, about 20 volunteers made significant progress - adding 200 feet of new bike trail, grooming 1000 feet of trail by rake and shovel, and adding seven new features like rollers and berms. A handful of volunteers gathered at the bike park again on Saturday, riding the momentum to continue making progress. Volunteers...
The Boeing jetliner that lost a door panel inflight over Oregon on Jan. 5 was not being used for flights to Hawaii after a warning light that could have indicated a pressurization problem lit up on three separate occasions over the past month, a federal official said Sunday, Jan. 7. Alaska Airlines decided to restrict the aircraft from long flights over water so the plane "could return very quickly to an airport" if the warning light reappeared, said Jennifer Homendy, chair of the National Trans...
WRANGELL — The port commission has recommended to the Wrangell Borough Assembly approval of an ordinance that would require owners who moor their vessels at a reserved spot in Wrangell harbors to either provide proof of marine insurance or pay a monthly surcharge on their moorage fee. Officials have been considering since 2022 adding the new requirement to municipal code to help shield the borough from the cost of raising and disposing of boats that sink in the harbors. “The cost of recovering sunken vessels has significantly increased, and...
Dino Brock has decided to resign as the head high school girls basketball coach in Petersburg, where he's coached for 29 years of his 31-year coaching career – the first two were in his hometown of Wrangell. When asked what led him to the decision to step away, he said, "Sometimes you just know it's the right time ... There've been stages I thought I was ready, but I wasn't." Growing up in Wrangell, Brock figures he played basketball 300 days a year on the uncovered court outside the housing pro...
Now that this year's basketball season is ramping up, so are the Petersburg Vikings, with the team taking two wins in Wrangell over the weekend. Petersburg won back-to-back games on Friday and Saturday during Wrangell's homecoming weekend, with a series of strong performances across the whole team. Friday's game against the Wrangell Wolves started off tight with both teams tied at 11 points at the end of the first quarter. The Vikings kept things close leading into halftime despite several of...
Despite having a rough start to the season, Petersburg High School’s Lady Vikings are on the road to improvement after a set of close games in Wrangell last weekend. The team wasn’t able to pick up a win, but their time spent in practice tightening up on their offense and set plays clearly paid off in both games. “Both games came down to one possession. We had the ball at the end of the game with the chance to either win or tie the game,” said coach Matt Pawuk. “I was really happy with how the girls played—and you know you always want to get...
Almost 110,000 Alaskans applied for the fall 2024 Permanent Fund dividend in the first eight days after the application period opened on Jan. 1. Applications close in 11 weeks, on March 31. Last year’s dividend was $1,312. This year’s amount will be determined as part of annual state budget deliberations, which will begin next week when legislators reconvene in Juneau. The annual dividend is paid from the state general fund, which gets most of its money from investment earnings generated by the $78 billion Alaska Permanent Fund and from oil...
Like starfish, sea urchins and sea cucumbers, Gorgonocephalus eucnemis, or basket stars, are echinoderms. They have round, flat bodies and five many-branched arms that can reach up to three feet long and will regenerate if wounded. They rest by day, then at night they roam the floor of the deep ocean looking for a spot with a strong current in which to hunt. Perched atop a rock or coral, they unfurl their complex arms lined with "jointed" hooks and spines, forming a net to catch krill, small...
