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A Petersburg-based fishing commercial vessel caught fire Thursday near Point Gardner in Chatham Strait where it had been participating in the golden king crab fishery. The fire prompted a coordinated response from nearby Samaritan vessels, the Wrangell Volunteer Fire Department, and the U.S. Coast Guard. The U.S. Coast Guard received a distress call at 1:49 p.m. reporting that the F/V Spicy Lady, a 58-foot steel vessel, was on fire and crew members were preparing to abandon ship into a life...
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This is a developing story. The Trump turmoil in the federal workforce continued at full tilt Tuesday as the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced all fired probationary Forest Service workers will be reinstated with back pay at least temporarily. Meanwhile the Department of Education made another round of mass firings that essentially cut its workforce by half. Those two moves were just part of the day's chaos that Trump administration officials are embracing as a necessary shakeup and detra...
Kelsey James McCay, age 31, will serve a decade in prison for sexually assaulting a woman in Petersburg in 2019. Complications from the pandemic and backlog at the state's only forensic lab delayed pressing charges against McCay, according to Assistant District Attorney Jessalyn Gillum. "Sexual assault cases can be very difficult," said Gillum. "I think there's a duty on behalf of really everybody to ensure that if [forensic] evidence exists and can be tested, that it be done prior to any...
Coffman Cove commercial fisherman Dugan Paul Daniels, 55, was sentenced on Monday to six months in prison for illegally “taking” an endangered sperm whale and falsifying fishing records in 2020. The term “take” legally means to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture or collect, or to attempt to engage in any such conduct. According to research done by the prosecution in preparation for Daniels’ case, this appears to be the first Endangered Species Act charge to result from a sperm whale take in the United States. The Nati...
March 13, 1925 – Talking to fish buyers and others the outlook for the halibut trade is none too flattering this year, although no man can tell what might happen before the season ends. One thing is certain, the closed season did not seem to boost prices, as was expected. It is claimed the cold storage plants were loaded up with fish. Some even claim that the Japanese helped to stock up the cold storage plants, but we can hardly believe that can be true. Word comes that more strict rules have been made in Seattle in grading, in weights and for...
Worth a listen and a reread To the Editor: Please listen to Hannah Flor’s Petersburg Medical Center Live from February 26, and read the article covering this in last week’s Pilot. The link to the meeting can be found on the KFSK website, kfsk.org. A couple of points stood out to me while listening. Alaska’s Medicaid expansion (a way to insure more people by increasing the income threshold to decrease medical disparities) receives 90% of its funding from the federal government. What happens if this is drastically cut? How does Alaska make up th...
March 5 - An alarm was reported. The Waste and Water Departments (WW) were called and responded. An officer conducted an extra patrol. A protective order was served. Papers were served. Officers responded to a report of gunshots. The report was unfounded. March 6 - Officers conducted an extra patrol. Freya Fenner, Erik Edwards, and Emmanuel Edwards were cited for minor in possession (MIP). A warning was issued for failure to stop at a stop sign. March 7 - An officer conducted a welfare check on Scow Bay Loop Rd. The individual in question was...
In Wright Auditorium, tubes of cardboard are being transformed into marble columns. Costumes salvaged from thrift stores are repurposed into Elizabethan finery. And students are grappling with language written over 400 years ago learning how to bring it to life. Petersburg High School's drama program, under the direction of Elsa Wintersteen, is tackling William Shakespeare's comedy "Much Ado About Nothing" this spring, with performances scheduled for March 27-29, including a Saturday matinee....
Over the final weekend in February, Petersburg artists Sunny Rice, and Alec and Nicole McMurren traveled to Astoria, Oregon for the 28th annual FisherPoet Gathering. They were among the more than one hundred people who have worked in the commercial fishing industry and took the opportunity to share the ways commercial fishing inspires their creativity. Since its inception in 1998, the FisherPoet Gathering has celebrated commercial fishing and the people who make it happen through poetry, song,...
The Petersburg Cheer team headed to regionals, set on claiming their third consecutive regional title. After weeks of preparation, the cheer team unveiled its halftime routine. "It was all new material. The material for the dance part was all done by the athletes, with little things here and there that I changed," head coach Becky Turland said. "They got to choose the music at the beginning of the season – I gave them a list of 16 to 17 songs and we did a secret ballet casting for the song and i...
The #5 seed Petersburg Vikings faced off against the #4 seed Craig Panthers in their first game of the regional tournament. The Vikings faced a 19-12 deficit at halftime. In the third, the Vikings scored 12 points to take a 24-23 lead heading into the fourth. "At the beginning of the year, we were really struggling and not able to score unless we ran a set play. We hardly ever called a set play, though regions – it really shows our growth," head coach Rick Brock said. The Vikings would go on to...
The Petersburg Lady Vikings entered the regional tournament as the #5 seed, with their first game against the #4 seed, Wrangell Lady Wolves. The Lady Vikings got off to a slow start – facing a 14-6 deficit at the end of the first quarter. However, the Lady Vikings were able to go on an 11-4 run to pull within 18-17 at halftime. "I felt like Wrangell had the advantage in the first and then we had the advantage in the second quarter," head coach Matt Pawuk said. "I was pretty happy with where we w...
Last week, the seine vessel Rosie M towed the Cardenas family float house 25 miles from its moorage on Dock Street in Petersburg out the Wrangell Narrows and North across Frederick Sound to Thomas Bay, where the family are employed for three months rearing 14 pens of hatchery chum salmon. Robyn Cardenas crafted a video documenting the move which can be viewed on her Brynn Marie Black youtube page....
Acclaimed taiko ensemble Unit Souzou will bring their powerful blend of traditional Japanese drumming, dance, and storytelling to Petersburg next week as part of the "sunset tour" for their production "Constant State of Otherness." The Portland, Oregon-based group will perform Tuesday, March 18, at the Sons of Norway hall. Tickets are available online and at Lee's Clothing. Unit Souzou, founded in 2014 by co-directors Michelle Fujii and Toru Watanabe, has built a reputation for innovative...
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