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Over 30 people turned out for a meeting to discuss long-term goals for developing the Scow Bay turnout last Thursday at the Halingstad-Peratrovich building. Members of the PEDC committee and the Harbor Advisory Board were in attendance and the meeting was led by Dick Somerville representing PND Engineers, Inc. in Juneau. Somerville displayed three drawings showing possible development options for the property. One proposed upgrading the existing ramp into a 40-ft. x 420-ft. concrete plank struct...
With the introduction of land exchange legislation in Congress, the Alaska Mental Health Land Trust has backed away from logging Trust lands in Petersburg and Ketchikan. John Morrison, Executive Director of the Trust Land Office (TLO) wrote in an opinion piece last week that with the introduction of S.131 and H.R. 531, 18,000 acres of Trust land would be traded for 20,000 acres of USFS land as an equal value land exchange. Morrison wrote, “We understand the importance of this issue to your community and are thankful for your engagement with u...
The Petersburg High School boys basketball team continued its winning streak over the weekend, adding two more while hosting Metlakatla. Going into the weekend, the Chiefs were standing just behind the Vikings for the season with five wins and only two losses. Petersburg had won its six games played so far, and Metlakatla stood a chance to move into first for the region if it could beat the front-runners at home. "I thought both nights were hard-fought," commented Vikings coach Rick Brock....
The Lady Vikings went up against region leaders Metlakatla in a pair of away games over the weekend. Both games were characterized by a lot of defensive play, with scores staying comparatively close but low. In Friday’s game, Petersburg trailed along throughout, finishing with a 22-34 score. Saturday’s game was almost a repeat, with the final score 23-34 in the Miss Chiefs’ favor. “I thought it was a good defensive game from both groups,” said Petersburg coach Dino Brock. He noted his team will be working on its positioning and offense....
January 27, 1917 – Further particulars regarding the new herring cannery to be established at Port Walter by the Alaska Pacific-Herring Company were learned Tuesday on the arrival in this town of Eigil Buschmann, who came north to arrange for the starting of building operations. Mr. Buschmann was accompanied by O. Anderson, under whose direction the buildings for the new industry will be constructed. The plans call for three cold storage buildings, each 40x100 feet, with combined cooling-room capacity for 10,000 barrels of herring; building f...
Petersburg Indian Association board member candidate Will Ware who submitted a challenge letter following the PIA election, withdrew as a candidate and clarified that the intent of the challenge was not to challenge the results but to bring attention to concerns about the process....
JUNEAU (AP) – A 21-year-old man caught transporting methamphetamine on a ferry running between Washington state and Ketchikan, Alaska, has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison. Jason Corey Vincent Alto was sentenced last week to 20 months in prison, the Juneau Empire reported Sunday. Court documents say Alto was stopped by Alaska troopers in May after a K-9 alerted troopers to 3.2 pounds of meth in his luggage. Federal prosecutors called it the single largest seizure of methamphetamine in southeast Alaska. Alto was charged with p...
WRANGELL – The Forest Service (USFS) announced its permits for visiting Anan Wildlife Observatory this summer will be available at the start of next month. At 8 a.m. on February 1 members of the public will be able to reserve permits at the Recreation.gov website. Twenty permits will be made available for each day of the season, which runs from July 5 to August 25. Visitation outside this time frame does not require a permit. Reservations and payment can also be made by phone, at the 1-877-444-6777 hotline. Permits for 2017 cost $10 api...
A demand for floathouses To the Editor: I’ve been following the Stikine River houseboat dilemma for some time now with interest. I did moose patrols for the Fish and Wildlife Service on the river in 1957, 58 and 59. I also ran the river in the 70 and 80s with friends in Petersburg and Telegraph Creek with a youth camp. There were no house boats on the river in that time. There were, however, numerous private cabins and moose tree huts. Soon after statehood, the Forest Service, after taking much criticism for being a mere “Logging Ser...
WRANGELL – A new sample site shows more butter clams carry the risk of paralytic shellfish poisoning for consumers, according to a report released last week. Since last year Wrangell Cooperative Association's Indian Environmental General Assistance Program (IGAP) staff have been collecting samples of various bivalves from the beaches around Shoemaker Bay on a weekly basis. It added a new site further south to its monitoring, near Pats Landing. It was here that the butter clam samples showed u...
As part of the wider Women's March to Washington, about 70 people met at the Tides Inn on Saturday morning to talk about national, state and local issues....
WRANGELL – Taking up the mantle left by the Lions Club after it closed its Wrangell chapter last summer, the Garnet Grit Betties roller derby team is continuing its aluminum collection program. For two decades the club had raised money for itself through the program, as aluminum is one of the few recyclable materials which can turn a profit for collectors. Reprocessing the material is considerably more efficient than producing it from bauxite ore, a savings which makes it more profitable than i...
Candied salmon ice cream … poke snack kits … salmon bisque baby food … fish skin tote bags and pet oils – Those are among the more than 20 new items to be revealed this week at the industry’s most popular annual seafood soiree: the Alaska Symphony of Seafood, where the public is invited to taste and vote on their favorites. Now in its 24th year, the event attracts commercially ready entries from major companies to small “Mom and Pop’s” who frequently take home the top prizes. Bambino’s Baby Food of Anchorage, for example, won grand prize for it...
WRANGELL – Trident Seafoods will be welcoming a new manager for its Wrangell plant during the summer's production run. Nick Ohmer was named as the company's selection in a media brief last week. A lifelong resident of Southeast Alaska, in an interview Ohmer said he would be bringing to the job his local knowledge and personal connections with Wrangell's fishermen. Ohmer grew up in Petersburg, and even before fishing alongside those from the neighboring community he grew up with many of them t...
KENAI (AP) – The Alaska Board of Fisheries is asking the state Legislature to reconsider the state’s fish habitat permitting process. The board sent a letter to the Legislature earlier this month asking lawmakers to review how the commission of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game issues permits in streams determined to be fish habitat, the Peninsula Clarion reported Sunday. Any activity that may use, divert, obstruct or change the natural flow of a body of water determined to be fish habitat requires a permit, granted by Fish and Gam...
JUNEAU (AP) – Legislators on opposite ends of the political spectrum are supporting an Alaska Senate bill to restore the portion of Alaskans’ oil wealth checks cut by Gov. Bill Walker last year. Walker vetoed about half the amount available for checks after legislative sessions that focused on the state’s multibillion-dollar deficit ended in gridlock. Senators who want the rest of the checks restored disagree with Walker’s veto but they also have different ideas on what a fiscal plan should include. Signing on as co-sponsors to Republi...
