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The Petersburg School Board unanimously approved a move to optional masking in all buildings during its board meeting Tuesday night as case counts decrease and vaccinations and tests become more accessible. The new protocols will be implemented when staff and students return from spring break on March 21 and while masking will be optional, all other mitigation strategies including quarantine and testing protocols will remain in place. The Petersburg School District has required universal...
While most high schools may take a field trip to the local museum or zoo, a select group of Petersburg High School students get to go somewhere a little bit cooler-LeConte Glacier. Each year, students set out to survey the glacier and record how it has moved over time. They're taking what they have learned in the classroom and are applying it in the field. The survey began in 1983 with high school teacher Paul Bowen's surveying class as an opportunity for the top students to get real world... Full story
The Petersburg Borough Assembly voted to approve an amended proposal increasing the starting pay of police officers and dispatchers in a 5-2 vote with Mayor Mark Jensen and Assembly Member Thomas Fine-Walsh opposed during Monday's meeting. The proposal passed by the assembly aims to improve both recruitment and retention of employees to combat the police department's continued staffing issues which have led to increased overtime and strain on staff. Changes included in the proposals were drawn...
March 10, 1922 The pupils of the first and second grades received a vacation on Friday owing to the illness of Miss Edna Miller, teacher in that room. While Miss Miller is not seriously ill, her indisposition worked for the benefit of the kids and they enjoyed the day to the utmost. March 14, 1947 Authority has been received by Colonel L.H. Hewitt, district engineer, Seattle district, Corps of Engineers, to commence work on The Wrangell Narrows, Alaska. The Wrangell Narrows project consists of dredging approximately 16,000 cubic yards of ledge...
The Petersburg Borough Assembly voted during Monday's meeting to send two properties owned by the borough along Sandy Beach Road to an outcry auction following a recommendation of sale from the Planning Commission. The two lots, 700 and 1015 Sandy Beach Road, are zoned single-family residential and are neighbored by privately-owned lots with houses. Marc Taylor was listed as the applicant for the 84,942 square foot lot at 700 Sandy Beach Road and Linda Millard and Samuel Bergeron were listed as...
The state of Alaska, Congress and the president, individual companies and people do not all have the same capabilities and authority to show their disgust and dismay at Russia’s unprovoked, murderous attack on Ukraine, a sovereign nation at war with no one until Russian President Vladimir Putin decided he had to prove that he is the toughest, meanest kid on the planet. But everyone needs to do something. The world has suffered far too many deaths, ruined countries, poverty and famine due to wars over the centuries to sit by and watch more of t...
Thank you to the clinic staff and to the community To the Editor: We wanted to take a moment to thank the staff at Joy Janssen Clinic, particularly Dr. Hess, as well as the radiologists, medical technicians, and Rexall Drug, for their diligent care last week. Their thoughtfulness and professionalism made the heartbreak of miscarriage easier to bear. We also wanted to thank our community for all the ways they have shown support in this difficult time. On dark winter days it can be easy to daydream about all the places we’d like to go, but on t...
More than a month has passed since Sen. Mike Shower claimed that he and other Alaska legislators were so busy they didn’t have time to deal with campaign finance legislation this year. He was not telling the truth. It was just something Shower said to conceal the effort to allow unlimited campaign donations in Alaska, which is what Gov. Mike Dunleavy and others in the Republican Party want. Shower is the chairman of the state affairs committee in the Senate, a committee that is responsible for dealing with this topic. He hasn’t done any...
March 1 – An officer responded to a complaint of a speeding vehicle on the 400 block of Haugen, but was unable to locate the offender. An officer issued a warning for excessive speed to a driver at South Nordic and Middleton. Police assisted a business on Mitkof Highway by contacting the owner of a vehicle parked on private property. March 2 – An officer responded to a complaint of an illegally parked vehicle on Howkan Street, but found the complaint to be unfounded. Christopher Malcom was arrested on Mill Road on charges of driving with a rev...
March 2: At the arraignment for State of Alaska v. Christopher Lee Malcom a not guilty plea was entered by the court of behalf of the defendant to the charge of Driving with License Cancelled/Suspended/Revoked, Violating Conditions of Release, and No Motor Vehicle Liability Insurance. Conditions of Release were set and a trial call was scheduled for March 15. March 3: Magistrate Judge Rachel Newport presided over an arraignment for State of Alaska v. Christopher Malcom for the charges of Theft 4 and Violating Conditions of Release. A not...
There were multiple accounts with outstanding balances when Sharlay Mamoe took over as director of the Petersburg Children's Center. A board member suggested writing letters to the people. Payments began coming back almost immediately, often with apologies. Those balances attest to the difficulty families face when it comes to paying for childcare. If a couple or a single parent cannot afford the rates at PCC, Mamoe will grab an application for the state-funded Child Care Assistance Program... Full story
An ordinance which would increase rates at Petersburg's municipal harbors was unanimously approved by the Petersburg Borough Assembly in its second reading during Monday's meeting. Ordinance #2022-03, which also passed unanimously in its first reading, would be the first rate increase since 2018 and would increase harbor moorage fees by around 5% among other changes. The ordinance also has the support of the Harbor and Ports Advisory Board and Harbormaster Glo Wollen who said the increase is...
State ferry system and Transportation Department officials plan to gather this week in Ketchikan to consider options for fulfilling the advertised summer schedule amid a continuing shortage of onboard crew. The department failed to meet its self-imposed timeline of hiring enough workers by March 1 to ensure that the Columbia on May 1 would return to service for the first time since fall 2019. The Alaska Marine Highway System had said it needed to hire at least 166 new employees to staff up its fleet — a gap of about one-quarter of its total aut...
Seventh grader Abby Worhatch stands between DD Toyomura and Head Coach Mike Corl after winning her bracket at the 46th Tanana Invitational in Fairbanks on February 26. Nine students from Mitkof Middle School attended the tournament which saw 513 middle school students, including a record 107 girls, from all sizes of schools enter the ring. Worhatch wrestled in four matches and managed to pin each of her opponents in less than four minutes. After beating the second-ranked wrestler in her bracket...
After a long trip south to Craig, the Petersburg High School girls basketball ended their regular season with back to back conference wins against the Lady Panthers. The team did not have much time to prepare for the midweek games after playing Wrangell only three days earlier, but after a slow start Tuesday evening Petersburg found its footing. The Lady Vikings edged out the hosts 37-35 in the first game after a strong second half performance. Craig was aggressive in the first half, outscoring Petersburg in the first and second quarters, and...
The Forest Service is bulking up how many permits it issues to the Anan Wildlife Observatory in order to allow as many visitors to the site as people and bears can handle, while also protecting the habitat. And it has a mid-March start date for a contractor to tear down the existing observatory to put up a new one in time for the July 5 to Aug. 25 viewing season. The current limit is 60 permits a day during the season, District Recreation Staff Officer Tory Houser said Friday. That was implement...
The Petersburg High School boys basketball team beat the Craig Panthers twice in two of their most dominant performances of the season last Tuesday and Wednesday after having played the Wrangell Wolves at home the previous weekend. “I was a little concerned about…the lack of rest,” Head Coach Rick Brock said. But Petersburg opened the midweek matches by scoring their highest in a conference game yet this season on Tuesday, beating Craig 58-31. The Vikings took an early lead with 17 points in the first quarter as they got comfortable with the q...
March means more fishing boats are out on the water with the start of the Pacific halibut and sablefish (black cod) fisheries this past Sunday, followed by Alaska’s first big herring fishery at Sitka Sound. For halibut, the coastwide catch from waters ranging from the West Coast states to British Columbia to the far reaches of the Bering Sea was increased by 5.7% this year to 41.22 million pounds. Alaska always gets the lion’s share of the commercial halibut harvest, which for 2022 is 21.51 million pounds, a nearly 10% increase. Exp...
First a trade war, then a battle against an infectious virus and now a real war are all affecting Alaska seafood exports. Shipments to China fell from as high as 30% of Alaska’s total seafood export value in the 2010s to 20% in 2020. “The U.S.-China trade war has displaced $500 million of Alaska seafood,” Jeremy Woodrow, executive director of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, told legislators last week. And though people bought more seafood to prepare at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, sales to restaurants and food services fell by 70...
This framed picture of the Fisk sculpture in front of the museum was recently donated to the Museum by Karla and Lee Corrao. The painting is one of a number of works by Virginia Eggert in the Museum's collections, including a work commissioned by Elsie Clausen of Sing Lee Alley. The artist was a Juneau resident in the 1970's. Though Virginia generally works in acrylics, this painting appears to have been done in watercolor. After studying art in Montana and Arizona, Ms. Eggert went on to teach...
