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Alaska Congressman Don Young spoke about a program to revitalize Southeast schools, local businesses and sea otter pelt market possibilities during a brief stop in Petersburg on Tuesday. Young met with the Economic Redevelopment Council on Tuesday in City Council chambers. The hour-long round-table invited members of the council and the community to speak their minds. Young first spoke about the importance of the fishing industry in Southeast Alaska: “You can't just build up a work-force over ni...
Petersburg Police are investigating the alleged home invasion, assault, robbery and possible sexual assault in three separate, but related cases, said Police Chief Jim Agner. According to probable cause reports filed in district court on Wednesday, George D. Marlow III, 24, and Taylor Homer, 23, kicked down the door of Ivan Jouiko's trailer and then proceeded to punch and kick Jouiko. Homer reportedly asked Jouiko: “What did you do to my girlfriend?” Officers Alice Williams and Joe Boggs reported that there was blood on the floor of the liv...
A summertime view of Petersburg’s front street from the cable office, taken in July 1936....
A long-time Petersburg doctor is now living and working in Antarctica. Dr. John Bergren, 50, is currently serving as the Lead Physician at McMurdo Station in Antarctica. Bergren is one of only 160 residents who will stay in McMurdo over the winter months, which runs from early February thru mid-October. Bergren arrived at the beginning of winter, when the population was about 1,000, he said. “There were some exciting moments for the medical staff about two weeks prior to our arrival,” Ber...
Hello again from the Alaska Legislature. Well, it’s still snowing and we’re still debating Education Funding, Oil and Gas Taxes, and lots of other issues that are so important to Alaska’s future. I hope we’re able to get it all done within the next 38 days. The high cost of energy is one big issue that impacts all of us. The mission of the Alaska Energy Authority (AEA) is to “reduce the cost of energy in Alaska”. To that end, the AEA worked with Southeast Conference to produce the Southeast A...
March 7 An assault was reported on Odin Street. March 8 Caller reported a possible identity theft. Officers responded to a report of a possible fight, yelling, and breaking glass. March 9 A caller reported that someone was blocking a driveway on S. Nordic Drive. Officers responded to a report of the theft of halibut tubs from a skiff on Hammer Slough. Hooks and lines were dumped out. An ambulance was dispatched to Cornelius Street. A caller reported individuals throwing rocks. An officer made contact. March 10 A street sign was found on the...
March 14 Thomas P. Lyons appeared before the court regarding a petition to revoke probation. Lyons could face up to 3 years in prison, the court said. An adjudication hearing is set for April 23. March 8 Abraham E Niemi appeared before the court regarding a petition to revoke probation. Niemi entered a guilty plea to a charge of theft. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail, with 25 days suspended and ordered to pay $40 restitution. Tracy Jackson entered a plea of guilty to disorderly conduct. Jackson was ordered to spend five days in jail and...
There's a new Ranger in town. Jason Anderson, 38, is now at the helm of the U.S. Forest Service office in Petersburg. An avid-outdoorsman, the father of five, said he is welcoming the responsibility of the Tongass National Forest. “The job of forest ranger has changed dramatically in the past 100 years. It's got the same purpose, but technology has caught up,” Anderson said. “I guess the earliest rangers had a horse and a gun, or in this area their main purpose was to aid the fishing indus...
The U.S. Coast Guard has advised permit holders for the annual Sitka Herring Sac-Roe fishery that they will increase the number of boarding teams in Sitka and will, “conduct immediate on-scene boardings of intentional collisions that occur during the fishery.” The letter was sent to all permit holders in late February by S. W. Bornemann, Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the Port in Southeast Alaska. The captain noted the USCG has conducted multiple investigations of collisions, near misses...
Barb and Mike Luhr accepted the Chamber of Commerce plaque naming Piston and Rudder as the Business of the Year. The couple and local shareholders purchased the local shipyard and merged its operations with their company in 2011. Piston and Rudder also constructed a new retail facility as well as expanded the shipyard operations. The award was presented at the Chamber’s annual meeting last Saturday evening, which was attended by about 85 people at the Sons of Norway Hall. Bob Heinrich from Conoco Phillips spoke on the company’s operations in...
Five students from Petersburg High Schools participated in the National Ocean Sciences Bowl (NOSB), coming in fourth overall against 20 other teams in the region. The Petersbug team included Tyler Lantiegne, who served as team captain, as well as Kyla Compton, Diane Murph, Nicole Peterson and Kyle Hagerman. The team competed as the Cexy Cnidarians. Coaches Joni Johnson and Sunny Rice, the Marine Advisory Agent with the Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program, also assisted. The team delivered...
Newly installed security cameras at the city harbors have enabled the department to photograph freeloaders attempting to stuff personal trash into harbor dumpsters. While boat owners are entitled to dump reasonable amounts of boat related trash into harbor dumpsters, oven ranges and full-size chest freezers don’t belong in the public trash bins, according to Harbormaster Glo Wollen. On March 5 in the South Harbor near the city crane dock, security cameras clearly captured images of i...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service in Juneau is warning residents to be respectful of raptors and ravens as they begin nesting in southeast Alaska. The Juneau Empire reports people should keep a healthy distance — 100 to 200 yards — from eagles, owls and during nesting season, which starts early for the birds. A tipoff for eagles that nesting has begun is seeing them carrying branches and other materials. Forest Service Biologist Brian Logan says disturbances can cause raptors to abandon nests and the risk of nest abandonment is gr...
SEATTLE (AP) — A large, Seattle-based diversified seafood company says it has reached a preliminary agreement to acquire Snopac Products. Icicle Seafoods president and CEO Dennis Guhlke said Wednesday his company is excited about the agreement with Snopac, an independently owned and operated seafood processing company with operations in Alaska and Seattle. Terms were not disclosed. Snopac operates a seafood processing plant in Dillingham, Alaska, and a seafood processing vessel. It has a significant presence in the Bristol Bay sockeye salmon f...
On Monday, workers demolished the icemaker at Trident’s Petersburg plant, to make way for a new and improved ice production facility....
Home grown salmon are Alaska’s largest crop – but don’t ever refer to it as farming. Whereas farmed fish are crammed into closed pens or cages until they’re ready for market, Alaska salmon begin their lives in one of 35 hatcheries and are released as fingerlings to the sea. When the fish return home, they make up a huge part of Alaska’s total salmon catch. The state’s annual report on its fisheries enhancement programs show that last year, hatchery returns and harvests were down by more than half from 2010, when a record 77 million hatchery sa...
Scot and Rachel Kandoll, along with Stacey and Jerry Dahl, Silas Flor, and Brian and Carol Kandoll, were in Haiti from January 27 to February 6. During that time they visited a small village in southern Haiti named Lievre. The group built 42 benches, and helped with a deworming clinic. The donations were provided by the Petersburg Bible Church. The deworming clinic was at the local church in Lievre that the group partnered with. They also were able to give medicine to 600 local people. The...
University of Phoenix Eva Medalen Rodriguez, a 2002 PHS graduate, recently graduated from the University of Phoenix earning a Bachelor of Science in Business and Accounting. Gonzaga University Gina Meucci, has earned placement on the Gonzaga University Dean's List for fall semester 2011. Students must earn a 3.5 to 3.69 grade-point average to be listed....
Leif Oliver Christensen was born to Oliver and Tiffany Christensen on February 28, 2012 at 3:48 pm at Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau. He weighed 9 lbs 3 oz and was 21 inches long....
KETCHIKAN (AP) — A tiny bear cub received another chance at life when local hiker Michael Schuler released its head from a plastic jug on the top of Deer Mountain on Sunday. Schuler said Tuesday that he had gone up the mountain that day to conduct some avalanche testing. Because it was a beautiful day, he decided to head up to the summit with Josie the dog, he said, and about 10 feet from the top, he saw what at first glance appeared to be a human lying in the snow. “I thought, ‘Uh oh. How am I going to deal with this?’” he said. Schuler worked...
After a lengthy debate, the Petersburg City Council worked out the details of a $210,000 loan to local business-owner Pete Litsheim to move the 29-year-old Romiad building from its current location on Haugen Drive to the lot next to Scandia House on Nordic Drive. The Petersburg City Council met in a special session on Thursday to discuss the terms of the loan agreement between Litsheim and the Petersburg Economic Development Council (PEDC). The council members and the mayor, on Feb. 21, had vote...
The Catholic church kicked off St. Patrick’s Day festivities early by serving Corned Beef and Cabbage on Sunday for a fundraiser dinner. Volunteers Joe Stratman (left) and Tom Abbott served up the seasonal dish....
