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The Petersburg Borough Administration offices will be closed Thursday and Friday to allow the staff to move into the renovated facility on Nordic Drive. The borough has been leasing space at Petersburg Indian Association's Halingstad Peratrovich Center on 12th Street for the past year. Finance Director Jody Tow said the Borough has leased office space for the past year and wanted to relocate before they paid an additional month's rent. Tow said the Borough paid $8,000/month to the Petersburg Ind...
Petersburg Medical Center’s strategic plan includes monitoring and improving health care services at the facility. This entails using state, federal and internal quality indicators to improve clinical excellence at PMC. Staff educational meetings and reports to the hospital board are a function of monitoring progress of the plan. Staff will monitor for new and changing regulations and implement those changes with education of employees and reports to the board. Policies will be updated to reflect changes in regulations, according to the strateg...
The Petersburg Girls Scouts enjoyed a day long STEM workshop at the Sons of Norway Hall lead by Kelly Fitzgerald of the Alaska Girl Scout Council. The girls rotated through four sections on: engineering, ecology, ornithology and seismology. Susan Harai, a professional engineer licensed in the State of Alaska, lead the engineering project which was a geodesic dome made of newspaper triangles. The triangles are the strongest structure shape and are used throughout building trusses and bridges. The girls built the dome then further added to the...
February 23, 1917 – Charles Smith has offered to sell his big residence and lots to the Hospital Association for $3,500. The matter was discussed at a special meeting held in A. B. hall Wednesday evening, and a test vote then taken was unanimous in favor of accepting Mr. Smith’s offer. The building, which is finely and very tastefully furnished, could not be better located for the purpose, and is of such size as would probably furnish ample hospital accommodations for several years. February 27, 1942 – Every married man subject to the Draft...
WRANGELL – The hospital approved a response to the Wrangell Borough Assembly regarding the future of its billing services contract. At an August 23 meeting, the city’s governing body asked that Wrangell Medical Center put together an assessment of its two-year contract with TruBridge, which took over billing services for the community-owned hospital the summer of 2015. The contract offered the company 2.2 percent of the transactions it processes on behalf of the hospital, with the intention of addressing its excessive accounts receivable and...
WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) – The number of whales getting tangled up in fishing gear in Hawaiian waters has been on the decline. No whale entanglements have been reported almost four months into the 2016-17 whale season. Ed Lyman with the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary said that’s the longest they’ve gone without one. Last season, the first confirmed entanglement was in December 2015. There were a total of six entanglements during the 2015-16 season and 13 the year before, The Maui News reported Wednesday. Lyman said the d...
WRANGELL – After meeting with one candidate in a closed-door session last week, the Wrangell Borough Assembly has decided to put the city manager position back out for advertisement. In the position since 2013, present manager Jeff Jabusch announced last September his plans to retire on March 31. Prior to that, he spent the better four decades as the city finance director. From a pool of 25 candidates a selection committee made up of Mayor David Jack, city staff and some Assembly members winnowed the field to four candidates. Of these, two d...
After two years of kicking the can down the road, this may be the year the Legislature finally gets serious about closing the budget gap. For two years, action in the Alaska House and Senate has focused primarily on cuts, which has reduced the yearly deficit from $4 billion to $3 billion but can go little further without substantial negative impact to the state's core services — items such as education, transportation and public safety. Finally, there appears to be an emerging recognition by legislators that new revenue for the state is an a...
WRANGELL – A Wrangellite took part in the 44th annual March for Life, which last month made its way through the streets of Washington, D.C. Since 1974, the annual nondenominational march is held each year on or around the anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, which held that abortion was protected under the right to privacy in the Constitution. Opponents to the court decision have since met at the National Mall on about every January 22 since, marching from there to the s...
Feb. 15 — An abandoned vehicle was reported in the Petersburg Medical Center parking lot. Three disturbance calls were reported at three locations along Nordic Drive. Paul Jacobsen-Wilson, 32, was cited for expired registration and Liability Insurance Required. An intoxicated person was reported along Haugen Drive. A hit and run was reported at Mountain View Manor. A disabled vehicle was reported at 3-mile Cabin Creek Rd. Suspicious activity was reported along Nordic Drive. Feb. 16 — Stewart R. Conn, 18, was cited for Failure to Exercise Due...
State representative Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins will be in Petersburg on Sat., Feb. 25 to hold public office hours from 3:30 – 4:30 pm at Glacier Express and from 4:30 – 5:00 pm at Java Hus. No appointment necessary. If you have questions or can’t make it to office hours email rep.jonathan.kreiss-tomkins@akleg.gov or call the Representative’s cell at 90-738-5581....
The Vikings played a high octane, non-conference game against Ketchikan last week, pulling up a win in the final seconds. "It went extremely well," Petersburg coach Rick Brock said afterward. The 4A Kings came to town February 16, and from the start the two teams were evenly matched. By the end of the first quarter, Ketchikan was just ahead 16-15, a one-point lead it still held at the half. "It took a little bit of time adjusting to their speed," said Brock. "K-High is extremely fast. They trans...
WRANGELL – At its rescheduled meeting last week, the City and Borough Assembly approved a bid by the Stikine Inn to purchase adjacent tidelands for less than assessed value. Southeast Properties LLC, which has owned the hotel for a decade, proposed purchasing from the city 5,450 square feet of submerged tidelands and 2,000 square feet of uplands to the north and west of the property's current boundaries. The assessed value of the site was at $101,200, based on estimated fair market value as...
JUNEAU (AP) - A supporter of Alaska’s sweeping criminal justice legislation is no longer a member of a commission that has recommended changes to the law. Juneau Police Department Lt. Kris Sell declined to comment after she resigned from the Alaska Criminal Justice Commission, the Juneau Empire reported. Commissioners provided input for a law that focused on punishments outside of prison or jail time. Sell was a vocal proponent of the legislation approved last year. She told a Senate committee Jan. 25 that her time on the commission helped s...
ANCHORAGE (AP) – Alaska State Trooper investigators have seized marijuana with an estimated street value of more than $600,000 from an illegal grow operation near Tok. Acting on a tip, Fairbanks troopers in the Statewide Drug Enforcement Unit on Wednesday contacted the occupants of a home at Mile 1316 Alaska Highway. Troopers say a suspected grow operation was on property next to the home. The property owner gave officers consent to seize illegal marijuana plants. Troopers seized 10 pounds of processed marijuana packaged in quarter-ounce b...
JUNEAU (AP) – The University of Alaska system has agreed to resolve issues stemming from a federal review of its handling of campus sexual assault and sexual harassment cases. The agreement, signed by system President Jim Johnsen on Friday and released Monday, outlines steps the system will need to take over the next several years. It follows a review, initiated in 2014, by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. Johnsen, in a letter to the university community, said the system did not enter into the agreement grudgingly and...
Gary James Stevens passed away February 12, 2017, just two days after his 75th birthday. Born on February 10, 1942 to James C Stevens and Patricia Youens, he was one of five children. Gary was a member of the Pioneers Alaska, The Moose in Sitka, The Elks in Wrangell, and Sons of Norway in Petersburg. Gary spent most of his life commercial fishing, first on his father's boat then later building and fishing/shrimping on the Miss Susan. He would regularly donate his catch to local businesses, benef... Full story
Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association Inc., (NSRAA) will hold its spring board of directors meeting on March 8 – 9, starting at 9:00 a.m. The meeting will be in the NSRAA conference room at 1308 Sawmill Creek Rd., Sitka and is open to the public...
KENAI (AP) – With several marijuana businesses up and running on the Kenai Peninsula in south-central Alaska, industry estimates show the businesses could contribute $5.3 million annually to the local economy. Eight marijuana businesses have opened on the peninsula since last summer and nine more are planned. Of those businesses, two are retail stores and the rest are cultivators, The Peninsula Clarion reported. Dollynda Phelps of cultivation company Peace Frog Botanicals presented a survey of current licensees to the Kenai Chamber of C...
KENAI (AP) – More than a dozen environmental groups are seeking to join lawsuits filed by the state of Alaska over a federal ban on certain hunting techniques in national refuges and preserves. The two lawsuits filed in January claim the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service illegally pre-empted the state’s authority to manage wildlife by banning state-approved hunting practices. The federal regulations prohibit the killing of black bears in their dens with the aid of artificial light and shooting brown bears over bait st...
