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After approving the report of Jensen, Yorba, Lott, Inc. the city council agreed Wednesday night to have councilor Sue Flint, Mayor Dwyer and the city manager lobby for design funds for the city police station when they are in Juneau next week. The council agreed it was important not to jeopardize the city’s drive-down dock funds while seeking project funds for the design of the new police station. During discussion it was noted that the state funds allocated to build the new fire hall were designated by the legislature for public safety b...
Judge Carey sentenced Tammi L. Avenson, 49, to serve six-months in jail when she was sentenced on Jan. 23 for conviction of felony theft in the 2nd degree and attempted falsification of business records. Avenson worked as a bookkeeper for Rock-n-Road Construction during the time of the thefts and is believed to have taken over $65,000 according to court testimony. Richard Burrell, owner of the company, told the court: “I’m pretty disappointed. I hope she doesn’t get a light sentence.” He also told the court he had stopped looking when the sto...
The city is exploring new options for the recreational vehicle staging area and dump/water station services now located in the parking lot adjacent to the Romaid Building. The new library will be constructed on that site beginning this summer. The city manager advised the city council at its Wednesday meeting that he asked Chris Cotta to look into alternatives for continuing the RV services after the existing dump/water stations are removed. Among the alternatives suggested by the manager: —Locate the dump and water stations at the w...
Principal Erica Kludt-Painter, Police Chief Jim Agner, Mayor Al Dwyer, City Manager Steve Giesbrecht, School Board member John Bringhurst, and DARE Officer Mike Schwarte proudly stand behind the 27 fifth graders of Rae C. Stedman Elementary who graduated from the DARE program on January 18th in Wright Auditorium....
February 3, 1982 - Petersburg should have a new shooting range by fall if plans by the city and the Petersburg Rod and Gun Club run on schedule. Using funds supplied by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, a basic range used by the Rod and Gun Club and located at mile 13 of Mitkof Highway will be upgraded and opened to the public. Plans call for the addition of an open shed equipped with benches to shoot from in adverse weather, a warming shed, bathroom facilities and two concrete trap...
Christine J. Ware, 37, appeared before Judge William Carey for felony sentencing under terms of a plea agreement with prosecutors in which she pleads to one felony charge of 2nd degree theft and one misdemeanor charge of attempted falsifying business records. Ware was given a suspended imposition of sentence for five years on the condition she serve 60 days in jail, complete 300 hours of community work service, provide restitution to the Petersburg Children’s Center board of directors, obtain a behavioral evaluation within 30 days of her r...
Hello and welcome to week two of Peggy’s Corner of the House. The pace is really picking up as legislators jockey to get their bills into committees early so that they can get them passed before the end of the session. Any bills that don’t pass this year will have to start over from scratch during the next two-year legislative cycle. One of the bills at the top of my stack this year is House Bill 216 that deals with how we adopt, amend and repeal regulations. The first part of the bill req...
Jan. 25: A caller requested Papke’s Landing Road be plowed for school bus. Slippery road conditions were reported on Fifth St. and Birch St. Police issued a citation to Scott J. Peterson, 21 for illegal overtake on left. A caller reported sliding down Excel and hitting another vehicle. Jan. 26: Two credit cards, a grocery card and library card were reported lost. A notice was served to abate a public nuisance and intention to abate with city personnel was served on a North Nordic property. An attempted break-in was reported on S. Nordic. A l...
Judge Kevin Miller ruled in December that Frank Townsend, former owner of Petersburg Shipwrights was not liable for payment to his ex-wife Barbara S. Sinclair for a line of credit that was taken out for her commercial fishing business and for their joint travel. The couple was married in 2008, according to court testimony. Sinclair’s small claims case against Townsend was heard on Dec. 5, 2011. In a written order the court stated, “Neither party will recover from the other. I find that Mr. Townsend promised to help Ms. Sinclair pay the lin...
The State DOT-PF truck plowed Haugen Drive Saturday morning as heavy, wet snow blanketed Petersburg. By that afternoon, snow turned to rain and the melting cycle is expected to continue into the next week. The pictured scene is at the intersection of Haugen Drive and Sandy Beach Road....
After over a year of back and forth debate, the city council and the harbor advisory board have agreed to drop pollution insurance requirements for persons using and, or leasing city land and requiring best management practices which are specified in the lease documents. Furthermore, the city would use two standard lease agreements — one for short-term leases at Scow Bay Turnaround that addresses specific Best Management Practices that must be followed at that location, and another for long term leases. The leases address issues such as c...
Once again the city is attempting to resolve longstanding issues with the District Attorney’s office by calling a town hall meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 21 and inviting representatives of the Governor’s office to attend. Kim Kilkenny of Petersburg Mental Health Services, said she would work to get citizens to attend the meeting by getting copies of the mayor’s letter to as many people as possible. According to a draft letter in the council packet for the Feb. 1 meeting, the mayor cited lack of support by the D.A., related to, “the dismissal of a hi...
The boys of the Petersburg Vikings basketball program know the meaning of hard work, as the past week attests. They just played five games in six days all against top teams in the region. Their odyssey began with two fierce games at home against Sitka, which you read about in the last edition of the Pilot. The next day the Vikings boarded their blue longboat for a trip to Juneau and Sitka. They arrived in Juneau on Monday and charged out to meet the 4A powerhouse Falcons of Thunder Mountain...
The actors of Petersburg High School took to the stage, over the weekend, performing the play ‘Straight from the Horse’s Mouth.’ It was performed Thursday through Saturday, with big crowds turning out for the weekend shows. Tiffany Christensen, who works at Stedman Elementary School, took up the reins as director for the very first time. Christensen has a degree in theater and has been involved in occasional summer productions since graduation in 2001, but had never directed a high school produ...
Edward Mark Glenz, 80, passed away January 27, 2012 at his home in Wrangell. Ed was born July 9, 1931 to Edward and Helene Glenz in Portland, Ore. The family home was in Castle Rock, Wash. Ed came north 60 years ago to work in the logging camps. He had a store, fuel dock, and a fish station in Meyer Chuck where he lived for 45 years. He commercial trolled on the F/V Good Luck. He was gardening and enjoyed wood lathe work. Edward is survived by his wife, Marian of 53 years, one daughter Teresa...
Kathryn Ann Chaney (Lohr), 81 passed away January 12, 2012 at her home in the Dover area southeast of Sandy, Ore. Kathryn was born October 29, 1930 in Dansville N.Y. She married Don Chaney in 1947 in Vancouver, Wash. Her early life was spent as the wife of a logger, in the late 50s her husband went to work for Cable Telephone Const., with two small children in tow they lived in places throughout Oregon, Washington, and California. In 1960 her husband went to work for General Telephone out of...
Dale Lee Tennison, 68 passed away January 29, 2012 at his home in Spokane, Wash. after a 10 month battle with cancer. Dale was born July 9, 1943 in Olympia, Wash. His family moved to Petersburg when he was seven years old and he attended school through his sophomore year. At that time he started working on “The Shirley”, a purse seiner owned by Ray Thomason, helping with the fishing and doing the cooking. In 1965 he was in Juneau, where he met and married his wife of 47 years, Donna Fra...
Stan Otness, 86, died on January 13, 2012. Stan was born on June 30, 1925, in Petersburg, Alaska to John and Ragna Otness. He was the fourth of five adventurous boys growing up fishing commercially in Alaska. He was brought up in a musical family with his father playing violin, his mother the piano for the local silent movie theater and his oldest brother the accordion. While attending Ballard High School he traveled back and forth to Petersburg, fishing halibut on his father’s boat. In 1944 h...
As expected there will be less halibut available for fishermen to catch this year – an 18% drop to 33 million pounds, to be split among fisheries along the west coast, British Columbia and Alaska. That follows a 19% cut to the catch last year. The announcement was made at the International Pacific Halibut Commission’s annual meeting last week in Anchorage. Alaska always gets the lion’s share of the catch, which this year will be 25.5 million pounds. Driving the fishing decreases: Pacific halibut stocks continue a decade long decline, there...
Adult Reading Raffle - Enter weekly to win a KINDLE FIRE and other great prizes online at psglib.org or at the Public Library. Open to adults 18+ Snacks+Music+Fun=TAG - Sat, Feb 4 - 11 am-1 pm Have an impact. Join the library’s Teen Advisory Group (TAG). Open to teens 6th grade and up. Invasion of the Afterschoolers presents - Woven Hearts - Tuesday Feb. 7, 3:30 - 4:30. Make woven paper hearts for Valentine decorations. A drop-in program for kids ages 6 and up. Baby Bookworms - Wednesday, Feb 8 at 10 am – 11 am. Entertaining our youngest pat...
