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The Petersburg Medical Center is embarking on a program to "grow their own" future staff members and hope that six high school students will fill future nursing positions at the facility. Alexis Francisco, Hana Newman, Helen Martin, Tanya Spears, Madisyn Parker and Julia Evens are set to complete the Certified Nursing Assistant course on May 13 and later take the State of Alaska certification examination on June 2. According to program coordinator Angela Menish, the medical center has a...
Voters may soon decide whether or not they want to raise the sales tax cap and to eliminate the exemption for the sale of goods purchased within the borough for use outside of it. The Petersburg Borough Assembly approved in its first reading an ordinance that would send those questions to the voters for the October 3 election. Assembly member Bob Lynn originally pushed for the sales tax questions to be on the ballot. But he said he was now on the fence after talking with local business owners who told him they would lose money to out of...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – With Alaska legislative leaders at odds over how to best address the state’s multibillion-dollar deficit, Gov. Bill Walker on Tuesday offered his help in hopes of nudging talks forward. Walker said he has invited House and Senate leadership to the governor’s mansion Wednesday to begin looking for areas of common ground. The Legislature has extended beyond a voter-approved 90-day session limit, with a budget and fiscal plan unresolved. The constitution allows for regular sessions of up to 121 days, which would extend into m...
April 20, 1917 - J. H. Scott arrived here on the City of Seattle and has taken charge, as superintendent, of the Doyhof Fish Products Company cannery. Mr. Scott reports that some extensive improvements will be made, including the installing of a second line of machinery and the erecting of new buildings, one of which will be a story-and-one-half structure 100x30 ft. Preparations have been made for a pack this season of 36,000 cases. April 22, 1942 – The complete retail line of building supplies owned by Mitkof Lumber Co. has been sold to R...
The Petersburg Borough Assembly voted in its second reading to approve an ordinance that provides an 8 cent power rate for the school buildings. The break-even power rate applies to the aquatic boiler room, the aquatic center, the high school, middle school and elementary school. The request comes after meetings between the Petersburg School District, Petersburg Medical Center and borough administrators on how to maintain services without increasing fees or taxes. During its last meeting, member Jeigh Stanton Gregor suggested the assembly appro...
The Beat the Odds, A Race Against Cancer has agreed to allocate funds totaling $25,718.95 dollars for cancer care equipment, travel costs, support and educational material in the community. This is due to the generosity local southeast Alaska businesses, community and the hundreds of participants at our two annual events: the Beat the Odds 5k run/walk held in Petersburg in October and the Circle of Life held in April. Last year over $31,000 was raised. Over the 16 years of the event, Beat the Odds has paid out grants totaling more than...
Fluoridation debate will continue Dear Editor and Assembly Members: In June of 2004, the Juneau Fluoride Commission was appointed and given the task of reviewing existing studies and reports. They were to come up with a recommendation whether or not to use the public water supply as a vehicle for dispensing fluoride. After two years of public meetings, the commission was divided in its recommendations. Three members firmly believed fluoridating the water supply was a good way to prevent dental caries, two members believed the practice should...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – The capital city of Alaska is looking to expand its borders. The Juneau Empire reported Sunday that the city and borough of Juneau have hopes of owning more of Admiralty Island, located south of the capital city, and a portion of land next to the Petersburg Borough. “In the near future, annexation of this region is mostly symbolic since there are no local residents or private properties,” Lands and Resources Manager Greg Chaney wrote in a memo to city officials. “In the long run, mineral development or tourism could g...
On April 10, Prince of Wales based Troopers received a report of fuel theft from a construction project on Salt Chuck Road in Klawock. Wayne Browning reported over 100 gallons of diesel fuel was siphoned from various heavy equipment sometime on April 9. Anyone with information about this theft call Alaska State Troopers at 826-2918. On April 10, Prince of Wales based Troopers received a report of wood theft from a local logging company working near Coffman Cove. Papac Logging reported approximately $1500 worth of Yellow Cedar was stolen from...
No media information (used to compile the weekly police report) was received from the Petersburg Police Department prior to press time this week....
April 3 — The court extended a short term Domestic Violence order for plaintiff Kimberly Cole against defendant David Schulz. April 6 — Permilia Lyons was released OR after she failed to appear before Judge Magistrate Burrell. A new trial date was set for April 18. April 11 — Justin Lamar Wade appeared before Judge Magistrate Burrell at a representation hearing. The court allowed the defendant to represent himself without an attorney at a future hearing. April 13 — The court issued an Order to Show Cause against Britt Banry for failing to retu...
The Petersburg Emblem Club received a visit from The Supreme Emblem Club of the United States of America Supreme President Marty Lynch and the Supreme Marshal Paulette Thompson last week. It is an honor for Emblem Clubs to receive a visit from the Supreme President, and it only happens every four years. Lynch is visiting clubs in Alaska and will attend the State Convention, which will be held in Fairbanks. There are 11 clubs in Alaska with a membership of over 800. The Emblem Club got its start...
The top player and coach for Alaska's 2A boys division this year returned victorious from the post-season Senior All-Star Game in Anchorage over the weekend. Playing at the Wells Fargo Sports Complex on the UAA campus Saturday, about two dozen of the best 1A/2A players from the past season divvied up into two teams for one final game. Players are nominated by members of the Alaska Association of Basketball Coaches, and play on teams coached by this year's victors at State back in March. With the...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – An oil well leaking natural gas on Alaska’s North Slope was successfully plugged by pumping saltwater into the well, according to private and government responders. The state Department on Environmental Conservation on Monday said the well operated by BP Exploration Alaska Inc., a subsidiary of BP, was “killed” at 3:35 a.m. The well is five miles from the airport at Deadhorse. Employees on Friday morning discovered uncontrolled natural gas flowing from the top of a well house, a metal structure that looks like a large...
A brighter outlook for Alaska’s upcoming salmon season just got even better. Markets are looking good, the statewide salmon catch forecast of 204 million is up by a million fish, and the world’s biggest sockeye salmon fishery at Bristol Bay is breaking records for chilling its fish. Last year nearly 40 percent of Alaska’s total salmon value came out of Bristol Bay. When its fish fetch a better pay check for boosted quality due to chilling, it is felt throughout the entire salmon industry. “The size of the Bay harvest has a big impact on salmon...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Alaska’s capital city and borough are considering closing a museum, gym and educational facility to balance its 2018 budget. Juneau needs to find nearly $2 million to balance its budget, the Juneau Empire reported Friday. Finance Director Bob Bartholomew has proposed taking $1.4 million from the city’s fund balance and reducing spending by $500,000. Juneau-Douglas City Museum, Mount Jumbo Gym, the Eagle Valley Center and more are in jeopardy of being closed to properly balance the budget. The city’s priorit...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Going without health insurance is a risk. Going without it in Alaska can be a gamble of a much higher order, for this is a place unlike anywhere else in the U.S., a land of pitiless cold, vast expanses and dangerous, back-breaking work such as pulling fishing nets from the water or hauling animal carcasses out of the woods. And yet many people on the Last Frontier do not carry insurance. For them, the Affordable Care Act just isn’t working. For reasons that have a lot to do with its sheer size, sparse population and har...
WRANGELL – The Borough Assembly convened in a special meeting midday Monday to change course on actions it took last week to curb water production issues this summer. Last Tuesday the Assembly approved moving forward with funding the redesign and installation of a new roughing filter system and purchasing fresh silicate for one of its four slow-sand filtration units at the water treatment plant. The intent was to address persistent clogging in the units from built up sediment, which was l...
WRANGELL – Licenses for the cultivation and retail of marijuana were approved for a Wrangell applicant earlier this month. The Marijuana Control Board gave the go-ahead to the two applications during its April 4 and 5 meeting, put forward by Kelsey Martinsen of Happy Cannabis. The licenses are conditional, pending building plan approval from the Fire Marshal and local municipality. As proposed, the shop would be a grow and retail business just between First Bank and the Diamond C Restaurant. The shop would feature a store front, with 15 grow ba...
Marine boat anglers returning to ports where and when on-site ADF&G creel surveys are conducted will be prohibited from filleting, mutilating, and de-heading sport caught lingcod, nonpelagic rockfish, and king and coho salmon at-sea. Marine boat anglers returning to any port on the road system of the communities listed below, during the times designated, may not fillet, mutilate, or de-head these fish until the fish have been brought to shore and offloaded, unless the fish have been consumed or preserved on board: Petersburg: 12:01 a.m....
WRANGELL – Regional economic forum Southeast Conference is seeking out data on private sector investment for its annual report on the economy. The survey is supposed to only take three minutes, asking for general information on significant private project investments one’s business or company had made between July 1, 2016 and June 30 in Southeast Alaska. All individual survey answers are completely confidential, and will be reported in aggregate only. “We do this annually so we can get a better feel for what the private investment is in the...
