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The Petersburg school board met Tuesday night to discuss the loss of federal secure rural school funding due to the program seemingly ending in 2017. Board president Sarah Holmgrain said the program has not been funded on a federal level beyond this year, and the school district stands to take a significant hit for the change. In 2015, Congress re-authorized the funding through the current year; however, the discussion going forward for Petersburg will be how the district learns to live without. The school receives about $600,000 from secure...
An application for an Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) permit alteration to release 40 million chum salmon in Thomas Bay brought forth by the Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association (NSRAA) has been approved. The application process has taken just over a year to secure the location, north of Petersburg, for the release but the change is something NSRAA general manager Steve Reifenstuhl has been thinking about for a while now. “I looked at Thomas Bay approximately 20 years,” he says. “Had temperature probes out there to ev...
Brian Lynch didn't have to hike up Petersburg Mountain or go aboard a vessel in search of his photo "BW" that was recently selected for an exhibition dedicated to flowers. All the local photographer had to do was go out to the garden and look over by the wood shed. "I was out there playing around and this was out there," he says. "I flipped my camera so it was on monochrome because I had decided to do it in black and white." He saved the photo and gave it a "goofy name" then kind of forgot...
January 18, 1917 – The sixth ‘phone was added to Petersburg’s telephone system this week when Electrician Purinton connected up K. L. Steberg’s office. The other ‘phones are at the two docks, the wireless station, Hogue & Tveten’s, and the Glacier Fish Company. The latter office also has a ‘phone connecting with Scow Bay. January 16, 1942 – At the annual stockholder’s meeting of the Petersburg Cold Storage Company all directors were reelected. The board consists of Ed Locken, president; Frederick Nelson, secretary; J. L. MacKechnie, treas...
JUNEAU (AP) – Bills that would restore the portion of Alaskans’ oil wealth checks that were cut by Gov. Bill Walker last year were filed Monday, ahead of the start of the new legislative session. The legislation to restore dividends was proposed by Republican Sen. Mike Dunleavy of Wasilla and incoming Republican Rep. David Eastman of Wasilla. Democratic Sen. Bill Wielechowski of Anchorage revived a proposal he has pushed previously with little success which he said would enshrine the current dividend formula in the state Constitution. The Ala...
Ice safety reminder To the Editor: Petersburg Search and Rescue would like to issue the following warning. The recent cold temperatures have caused local lakes and some streams to freeze allowing for recreational activities out on the ice. However this weekend’s predicted warm temperatures and rain will cause the ice to melt and weaken. Please be extremely careful on or near the ice, especially with children. If someone falls through the ice if possible reach out to the victim without leaving shore. If you venture out on the ice to reach for t...
We were warned that power to a 200 amp electrical service panel would eventually fail, so we planned to upgrade when we resurface the parking lot next to The Pilot next summer. On Monday, Murphy’s Law #3 seemed applicable. “If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will go wrong is the one that will cause the most damage.” On possibly the coldest night of the year, power to the newspaper pressroom failed. That power failure put two of the four heat pumps providing heat to our buildings, out of service. The tempe...
Last week’s page one photo was provided by Jean Curry. The photo credit was not correctly stated....
A mechanical delay and lost luggage put former Petersburg mayor Dave Carlson and wife Celia at the Fort Lauderdale airport just minutes before shooting broke out in Terminal 2 baggage claim area on Friday. The Carlsons left their Bend, Oregon home for a 10-day cruise aboard the Harmony of the Seas, 6,000 passenger cruise ship destined for the Caribbean. A mechanical put them in Ft. Lauderdale 6 hours late, without their luggage. They were told Friday morning that American Airlines had...
January 5 Suspicious activity was reported at the South Harbor parking lot. There was a parking issue at Haugen and S. Nordic Dr. January 6 There was a civil matter reported on S. 2nd St. A traffic hazard was reported on N. Nordic Dr. There was a report of disorderly conduct on N. Nordic Dr. January 7 A traffic offense occurred on N. 1st St. A call was received concerning a burglary at Hungerford Hill. January 8 There was a report of disorderly conduct at Magill’s Trailer Park. January 9 There was a report involving an assault on S. Nordic D...
The Lady Vikings basketball team traveled to Haines last weekend and ended up playing postponed games on Monday and Tuesday due to bad weather. Head coach Dino Brock said the girls are so used to traveling that the delay didn't negatively impact his squad. Teams playing in Southeast have to be prepared for anything, Brock said. "They handled it very well," he said. "They are pretty used to weird things happening." Brock said the girls started the game on Monday with more energy than Tuesday's...
JUNEAU (AP) – Canadian officials say they will take action to prevent polluted water from a decades-old mine from entering the Taku River, a key source of salmon caught in southeast Alaska. British Columbia Ministry of Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett told CoastAlaska News experts will explore different options, including plugging leaking tunnels from the defunct Tulsequah Chief Mine. The acidic water has been carrying pollutants into the Tulsequah River, which is a tributary of the Taku near Juneau. The mine hasn’t operated since 195...
Fishery advocates are hoping for the speedy delivery of a letter to state lawmakers that asks them to dust off a law pertaining to fish habitats. Title 16, the statute that outlines the responsibilities of the Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game when issuing development permits that could impact those resources, has not been updated for nearly 60 years. “The law we have now, in terms of permitting projects in fish habitat, was written the year after statehood and it has not had any substantive updates since then,” said Lindsey Bloom of Juneau, one...
The PHS boys' basketball team opened up conference play in Haines this week with two victories. The team spent multiple days in Juneau due to bad weather so the games were rescheduled for Monday night and Tuesday afternoon. "With the weather changing daily and the kids needing to continually make adjustments, I thought they handled it very well," head coach Rick Brock said. "Monday, we knew, would be a long day going in and we just tried to prepare for it." Brock believed the postponed games had...
KETCHIKAN (AP) – State analysts predict Alaska will lose thousands of jobs this year as it continues to deal with the effects of low oil prices. The Alaska Department of Labor estimates the state will lose about 7,500 jobs in 2017, a little more than 2 percent of its total workforce, The Ketchikan Daily News reported. Economist Caroline Shultz said in the state’s annual job forecast report that there will be widespread reductions in service industries that rely on consumer spending. Alaskans will hold on to more of their dollars this year bec...
The first baby of 2017 was born to Lyman and Rachel Hudson on January 6 at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle. Brynnleigh Aurora Hudson was born at 9:24 am, and she weighed 5 lb and 7 oz....
A mechanical delay and lost luggage put former Petersburg mayor Dave Carlson and wife Celia at the Fort Lauderdale airport just minutes before shooting broke out in Terminal 2 baggage claim area on Friday. The Carlsons left their Bend, Oregon home for a 10-day cruise aboard the Harmony of the Seas, 6,000 passenger cruise ship destined for the Caribbean. A mechanical put them in Ft. Lauderdale 6 hours late, without their luggage. They were told Friday morning that American Airlines had... Full story
