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A 15-year-old, fading mural in Petersburg is getting about four coats of paint added by volunteers in town. The Our Town mural, which hung above the parking lot across the street from the Wells Fargo bank since 2003, currently sits on the second floor of the Petersburg Indian Association Hallingstad-Peratrovich building. The 40-foot painting is broken into 11 plywood panels, and about 15 volunteers have been working in groups of three or four since January to layer heavy duty paint. Pia...
Rachel Newport is taking over as clerk of the trial court office in Petersburg. "It's a big job," said Desiree Burrell, the magistrate judge in Petersburg. "It's very important." Newport is a Petersburg native, and now she'll be manager of its court system. She'll handle all of the filing and be the in-court clerk as well. "She's really the face of the court system in Petersburg," said Clayton Jones, who's been filling in from Ketchikan. Newport was one of the clinic receptionists at the...
We are indebted to former Petersburg Press and Wrangell Sentinel publisher Lew Williams, Jr. for providing stories, photos and information about both Petersburg and Wrangell newspapers. In addition to providing historic photos, Williams also provided entire chapters of a book he updated and edited, "Bent Pins to Chains; Alaska and its Newspapers." In the mid-1970s historian and author Evangeline Atwood was urged by Fairbanks Daily News-Miner executive Charles Gray and Ketchikan Daily News Publis...
We're proud of the work our employees accomplish to bring a new edition of the Sentinel and the Pilot to our readers each week. We have published this guide to the Wrangell Sentinel and the Petersburg Pilot to acquaint you with who we are and the how we do our jobs. We've also included photos and stories about the history of each of the papers. This guide explains some of our values and philosophies and how we operate our newspapers. We offer advice on how to get your stories and advertising mes...
Editorial pages are unlike any other pages in the paper, because they are reserved for opinions. News appears on other pages, free from opinions, except those of news sources that may be quoted from time to time. Reader’s opinions and the newspaper’s opinion both appear on the editorial pages of both newspapers. We even label the page as the “Opinion Page.” One editor wrote, “The front page is for the report of what others are doing. The editorial page is the report of what the editor thinks they should be doing.” An editorial is written by the...
Both the Pilot and Sentinel have special forms that help people give us news about engagements, weddings, birth announcements and obituaries. The forms list the types of information we publish and help us get the necessary information to write a story about the event. Photos may be submitted along with stories, news releases or with completed forms that we provide. Bring in several photos and we will select those that are of interest to us or that will reproduce the best. Photos must be...
Both newspapers welcome letters to the editor, particularly letters pertaining to local issues. Letters must be signed and be limited to 350 words or roughly a page and one-half of double spaced type. Writers should include a daytime phone number so that the editor may verify content and authorship. We reserve the right to edit letters for libelous material, length, taste and clarity. All letters are accepted and published on a space available basis. Letters become the property of the newspapers and will not be returned. Deadline for...
Over a period of 60 years, Petersburg has had four weekly newspapers, one of which operated under two different names. The Petersburg Pilot is the fifth paper and was founded on February 8, 1974. Newspaper history in Petersburg began on January 18, 1913 with the appearance of The Progressive, "published every Saturday" by J.E. Rivard and J. Frederick Johnson. Rivard was editor. The Progressive survived only a year. Johnson's name last appeared on the masthead on March 8, 1913 and the paper's...
Since the Petersburg Pilot was founded, our mission has remained the same as that stated by its first publisher, Jamie Bryson. Bryson also published the Wrangell Sentinel. The Pilot is a publication dedicated to running news, features and photos about and of specific interest to Petersburg and southeast Alaska. We only run state, national and international news items that pertain to Petersburg’s interests. We strive to publish a newspaper that is “bright, newsy, entertaining and a responsible observer of the public affairs of the com...
A press release might be the best way to present news to us for publication. It’s not hard to do. Here are some tips to follow. Today, news releases can be sent to the paper by email. Keep it short. Space is limited in our small paper; so brief items have the greatest chance of being published. If we want more information, we will get in touch with the news release writer. Get to the point. The important information in your news release should appear at the beginning. This way editors can shorten news items by cutting from the bottom of the s...
Advertising is the bread and butter of both newspapers and makes up about 70% of our annual income. Since we are a business, it is important that we be profitable. If we aren’t, the bills would go unpaid and we would be out of business. Since both newspapers draw an average readership in excess of 6,000 people each week, businesses find the papers to be valuable publications in which to advertise their goods and services. We have three major types of advertisements in The Pilot and Sentinel – classifieds, display and legal notices. CLA...
Our reporters rely upon a variety of people to talk to them each week in order to report the news of the community. The police chief, city clerk, city manager, school principals, parents, children and many others all give us information each week that helps us write news report about this community. Our reporters are trained to ask questions about news events that people want or need to know about, and then to write a story about that news event. They are trained to listen, observe and write about that which they hear and see. Good reporters...
Taken from: Bent Pins to Chains Since 1930, the Petersburg Press had been printed on a drum cylinder press manufactured in the 1890s by D.B. Cottrell and Sons in Rhode Island. It printed eight full-size pages. The PRESS went to the new photo-offset method of production July 1, 1964, with page size reduced to a tabloid format measuring 11x17 inches. Most weekly newspapers including the Sentinel and the Pilot are printed in the same tabloid format. The Petersburg Press was the first hot metal Alaska newspaper to convert to offset. Its new...
The publishers operate one the best-equipped weekly newspaper plants in Alaska. While other newspapers rely on larger newspapers or commercial printers to produce their finished product, Pilot Publishing produces its weekly editions entirely in its own plant. In addition to the Pilot and Sentinel, we also print the Chilkat Valley News in Haines each week The three publications are printed on our 6-unit Goss Community press, which is capable of printing 12,000 papers per hour. The papers are...
The Pilot and Sentinel welcomes groups who wish to tour our facilities. We're proud of our employees, our plants and our history and we'd like to share it with you. Please phone us at 772-9393 or at 874-2301 in Wrangell, to arrange the time of the tour. The publishers or a staff member will provide a guided tour of our operation, and explain how we publish the paper each week. We will also explain how the equipment works and contributes to our publishing effort....
Our news staff at both newspapers are accustomed to digging out the news that appears on our pages every week. That doesn’t mean that we don’t appreciate and respond to “news tips” from anyone in the community. If you see or know of a news event, let us know. Our receptionists will pass the item along to a reporter in the news department and we will attempt to cover newsworthy events to the best of our ability. We have a small staff at both the Pilot and Sentinel, and we can’t be everywhere at once. If you see news happening, give us a call. T...
The publishers support the community with both cash and in-kind donations. They also volunteer time to community organizations, boards and commissions and committees. We encourage our employees to do the same. Our largest contributions are in the form of free or discounted advertising to various non-profit organizations, schools and charities. Several advertisers contribute their newspaper space to non-profit organizations to be used for advertising public events, concerts and school sporting events....
A Petersburg man is facing controlled substance charges after police intercepted a package shipped to him that contained about an ounce of heroin. Kelsey McCay, 25, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with second-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance, according to the Petersburg Police Department. McCay was the subject of an investigation after police developed information that heroin was being shipped to him. A search warrant of the package was granted and police discovered just... Full story
