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The Petersburg High School boys basketball team won two games last weekend in Sitka to bring home the 2A Region V title. Head coach Rick Brock said the entire team played well and are looking forward to taking the court at State this weekend in Anchorage. On Thursday, the boys met up with the Craig Panthers. The two teams had faced off in Petersburg the previous weekend in the regular season finale. "It was a good game to start the tournament," Brock said. "The nice thing about Thursday's game,... Full story
The Lady Vikings have been ranked No. 1 among 2A teams for the majority of the season. Winning the Region V title last weekend in Sitka solidified their strangle hold on the top seed at State this weekend where they take on the Dillingham Lady Wolverines in first round action. "It was a great weekend, the atmosphere was incredible with the pep band, the cheerleaders, and all the teams supporting each other," said head coach Dino Brock. "The kids were ready to play and came out fired up." On... Full story
The Petersburg Borough Assembly unanimously approved a $6,639,300 municipal building remodel project bid award to McG Constructors/DCI Joint Venture. The bid included one alternate, a $213,000 south parking lot, that the Borough Assembly removed from the project with the understanding they could include it later. MRV Architects’ Corey Wall answered questions regarding the need for the parking. “The main reason for the south parking lot alternate was to reorient the exit out onto Nordic Drive further south so that it lines directly up with Bir... Full story
March 18, 1916 – At a meeting of the Commercial Club held Tuesday evening a committee was appointed to secure data as to what benefit to shipping would be derived from the dredging of a channel through the bar in front of Petersburg and at other bad points in the Narrows. The delegate has introduced a bill appropriating $100,000 for the dredging of a ship channel through Dry Strait, but does not expect final action on the measure at this session. An appropriation was made last year for a survey of Dry Strait. The survey is to be made this s...
The Cole memo is a memorandum written by U.S. Deputy Attorney General James Cole and it provides guidance regarding federal marijuana enforcement. It’s a document state regulators and Petersburg borough officials have used to support the possibility of a viable marijuana industry in Alaskan communities off the road system. “I think there’s been a lot of fears as to how the federal government would impose or not impose existing laws and Cynthia Franklin, a former prosecuting attorney, had a really, I found, interesting perspective,” Assembl...
First responder volunteers To the Editor: We are very fortunate to have dedicated volunteers in our community. Volunteers read to children in the elementary school, they pick up litter along the side of the road, and they serve on the many elected boards and committees. The Hospital Guild, Humane Association, KFSK, the Library and WAVE are just a few of these agencies. Most of the time, the benefit is limited to a small or unique group of people. In one particular instance, the benefit to every single person in this community is very apparent:...
Petersburg Indian Association’s tobacco prevention specialist asked the Petersburg Borough Assembly March 7 to ban electronic cigarettes and vapor products from bars and increase the smoke free distance from five feet to 20 feet. PIA’s Katie Yeckley said vapor products may expose non-smokers to harmful chemicals and that the products are not FDA approved. She also said the five-feet distance from building entrances is too short, allowing smoke to still enter public spaces. “As a non-smoker and a mother of young children I find it very diffi...
Editions of this week’s Petersburg Pilot and Wrangell Sentinel appear in black and white due to a breakdown of the platemaker at the Pilot printing plant. To speed up the platemaking and printing process this week, we opted to print both publications without color. Plates for this edition were produced at the Ketchikan Daily News at 5 a.m. Thursday morning and were scheduled to arrive in Petersburg by 8 a.m. on the ACE freight plane. Orin Pierson worked with factory repairmen and electrician Darby Mattingly on Wednesday to locate and repair t...
March 9 A caller reported a confused woman on the front step of a Haugen Drive residence. The caller requested an officer. After responding the officer requested EMS. A caller reported a vehicle speeding on Chief John Lott Street. An officer was on another call, and was unable to locate the vehicle after responding. An officer gave a warning to an individual for not properly displaying their temporary tag. A caller requested assistance with a civil matter. A caller reported possible small caliber gunshots on North Nordic Drive. An officer patro...
March 10 Gregory Birchell appeared before Magistrate Judge Burrell for a trial regarding failure to yield to an emergency vehicle and speeding. The court found Birchell not guilty of failure to yield to an emergency vehicle and guilty of speeding and fined the defendant $122. March 15 Verne Craig appeared before Magistrate Judge Burrell for a change of plea regarding unlawful storage of crab gear. The defendant entered a plea of no contest. The court sentenced Craig with a fine of $1,000 with $700 suspended, one year unsupervised probation and...
The Petersburg Wild Kings hockey team traveled to Juneau for the Rainforest Classic Old Timers Tournament held Feb. 26-28. Petersburg hit the ice four times, winning all but one game, and brought home the B bracket championship. On Friday, the Wild Kings started the tournament against Juneau Trout Unlimited. The game went back and forth, but Petersburg took the victory, 2-1. Later that night, the Wild Kings went up against the Juneau Humpies from Hell. The Petersburg squad stormed the ice and...
Southeast Alaska Power Agency (SEAPA) board of directors held a special board meeting telephonically to approve a budget increase and construction contract. During a February meeting in Wrangell the board discussed the possibility of completing the Swan-Tyee Intertie Helicopter Pad Project in FY2016. SEAPA staff requested a $937,395 increase to the fiscal year budget to complete the project. The approval of the budget included a $53,165 increase to the overall budget of the project. Voting alternate and electrical superintendent Clay Hammer...
WRANGELL — Wrangell’s Planning and Zoning Commission took a first look at what it would take for a licensed marijuana operator to set up shop on the island. As summarized by Alaska’s Alcohol & Marijuana Control Office director Cynthia Franklin during a presentation made in Wrangell on March 1, where retail, growing, production and testing facilities are allowable within the state depends in part on a community’s zoning regulations. Unlike liquor licensing, marijuana licenses will not be limited in number. It will be up to community governm...
Fire sale salmon prices last year and a dim outlook for the upcoming season have caused the value of Alaska fishing permits to plummet. To another extreme – the prices for halibut catch shares have soared to “unheard of levels.” Starting with salmon permits: “A lot of people had disastrous seasons last year, whether it was drift gillnet or seine permits, and the values have declined dramatically,” said Doug Bowen of Alaska Boats and Permits in Homer. At Alaska’s bellwether fishery at Bristol Bay, a base sockeye prices of 50 cents a pound helpe...
SITKA —The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced that the Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery will be on 2-hour notice effective 11:00 a.m., Thursday, March 17. This means that a fishery could be expected with a minimum of two hours notice after the effective time. Today, two test samples were taken from a large aggregation of herring near Eastern Bay. The results of those samples were as follows: Eastern Bay: 50 tons, mature roe – 4.9%, immature roe – 2.9%, average weight – 97 grams; North Siginaka Islands: 200 tons, mature roe - 9.9%,...
wrangell — A crowd-drawing discussion on recreation funding held by the Forest Service Tuesday evening made the council chambers at City Hall feel unusually short for space. About two dozen members of the public met with staff of the Wrangell Ranger District to share their concerns about facilities maintenance. Listing concerns from greatest to least, residents participating at the meeting identified cabins, ATV trails and the overall recreation program as their top priorities, followed by trails, berry access, subsistence and stoves. F...
