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The Kake Access road project is officially dead after the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) nixed the project’s environmental impact statement (EIS). “A Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare an…EIS was published in the Federal Register on January 22, 2013,” a notice on the federal register states. “The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that FHWA and the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (ADOT&PF) will no longer prepare an EIS for the Kake Access project.” In 2004, a state transportation plan identified... Full story
Karen Hofstad has a collection of a couple hundred or so seafood related cans and labels that would make fishing industry historians salivate. The majority of the collection represents the salmon industry and canneries throughout Alaska, including Kodiak, Petersburg and Wrangell, and they are the inspiration for trash cans worthy of a framed photograph. Last summer Bruce Schactler, a fisherman from Kodiak, contacted Hofstad to ask her to share her labels to create 30 trash cans to help... Full story
April 22, 1916 – An advance in passenger rates is announced by the Border Line Transportation Company, effective with the next sailing of the Al-Ki from Seattle. The new rates between Petersburg and Seattle are $23 first-class and $14 second-class, the increase being $4.00 and $1.50 respectively. No change is announced in fares between Alaska ports. A. E. Austin, representing the Tacoma Grocery Company, was a Petersburg business visitor the fore part of the week. Mr. Austin reports a brisk and growing demand in Alaska for his company's s...
Over 50 band and choir students participated in the Region V Music Festival in Ketchikan last weekend, and the results show the PHS music program led by director Matt Lenhard continues to improve. The event brought groups from all over Southeast together and focuses on celebrating the region's close-knit music community. The festival is non-competitive, but offers participants the opportunity to gain ratings. PHS concert band, jazz band and choir performed during the event, and there were two... Full story
Local Petersburg resident Eliza Warmack will be a new 5th grade teacher at Rae C. Stedman Elementary School next year. Eliza, her son Ari and her husband Glenn Warmack came to Petersburg four years ago from Sand Point in the Aleutian chain where Eliza taught kindergarten for two years. "We actually moved up there (Sand Point) for a teaching job," Eliza said. "We were in Portland and I taught there for a year and did some subbing for Portland Public and there was just not a job to be had. The...
April 13 A driver received a warning for expired tags and wrong way on one way street. Jase Payne, 23, was arrested on charges of tampering with evidence. A caller reported needles found over embankment. A caller requested extra patrols due to theft. April 14 A caller reported a loud bang. A caller reported a hit and run to a parked vehicle. A caller reported suspicious activity. A caller reported a possible DUI. An officer made contact. Claim was unfounded. A caller reported concern for a subject driving while talking to themself. Claim was...
April 14 Charles Christensen appeared before Magistrate Court Judge Burrell for a charge of unlawful gear for registration area A. The defendant entered a guilty plea and was fined $100. Jase Payne appeared before Magistrate Judge Burrell on a charge of tampering with physical evidence. The court entered a not guilty plea on the defendant’s behalf. The court ordered third-party 24-hour sight and sound custodian among other conditions. Paul Jacobsen-Wilson appeared before Magistrate Judge Burrell for a bail hearing. The court amended his c...
The Rasmuson Foundation has chosen a collection of Petersburg artists’ works to put in its newly renovated office space in Anchorage. In its promotion of the arts, the Rasmuson Foundation awards funds through the ‘art acquisition fund’—grants to museums across the state so they can purchase local art to display. Kelsey Potdivan, Rasmuson Foundation program fellow, said about 28 museums across the state are involved in the program and those museums then provide several pieces to Rasmuson to display for 18 months. “The museums that we’ve original...
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game earlier this month released this year’s regulations regarding sport and commercial King salmon regulations. The resident bag and possession limit is three King salmon, 28 inches or greater and the non-resident limit is one King, 28 inches or greater except during May and June when non-residents are allowed two King’s 28 inches or greater. The non-resident annual limit is six Kings at those same length restrictions. Those regulations are in effect from 12:01 a.m. April 12, 2016 through 11:59 p.m. May 1,...
Nine Petersburg High School students traveled to Skagway earlier this month for the annual art event known as Art Fest. The event was held April 7-10 and open to high school students throughout Southeast. Over 80 students gathered in Skagway, a destination not really known for hosting regional events. "Traveling to Skagway was definitely a highlight because it's not a typical place that students get to travel to," says Ashley Lohr, PHS art teacher. Of the nine students Lohr took to the event,...
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center says there should be above normal temperatures during the summer months of June, July and August, and equal chances for normal precipitation. So expect typical amounts of rain, but more warm days than Petersburg has seen in the past couple of summers, says NOAA forecaster Kimberly Vaughan. “And that’s because we are transitioning from an El Niño to the La Niña,” she says. As for this past winter, Vaughan says it was the second warmest on record for Petersburg, and fifth lowest for snowfall. The average t...
JUNEAU (AP) — The pilot of a commuter plane that crashed in southeast Alaska had said he was going to take an alternate route due to cloudy weather before the plane went down, according to a preliminary accident report. The report from the National Transportation Safety Board on the April 8 crash that left three men dead, including the pilot, 60-year-old David Galla, was released Thursday. The passengers killed in the accident on Admiralty Island were Greg Scheff, 61, and Thomas Siekawitch, 57. The only survivor, 21-year-old Morgan Enright, r...
Increasingly corrosive oceans are raising more red flags for Bering Sea crab stocks. Results from a first ever, two year project on baby Tanner crabs show that higher ocean acidity (pH) affects both their shell production and the immune systems. Bairdi Tanner crab, the larger cousins of snow crab, are growing into one of Alaska’s largest crab fisheries with a nearly 20 million pound harvest this season. “We put mom crabs from the Bering Sea in a tank, and allowed her embryos to grow and hatch in an acidified treatment,” explained project leade...
JUNEAU (AP) — Students and teaching assistants have arrived back in Juneau from a remote mountaineering class that was cut short when one of their professors was mauled by a brown bear. They said Tuesday night that they were tired and not yet ready to talk about Forest Wagner, 35, who was teaching the class on Mount Emmerich near Haines when he was attacked by the brown bear sow on Monday. The mountain is near Kicking Horse River in Alaska's panhandle. A student hiked into cellphone range on the mountain and called Haines police, who r...
July 1, 1944 – March 31, 2016 It is with deep sorrow that we report the recent passing of Warren W. "Butch" Bailey, MD, a former resident of Petersburg and recent resident of Qualicum Beach, B.C. Warren was born in Ketchikan and raised in Petersburg as a member of the "Hill Gang". Upon graduation from PHS in 1962, Warren went on to attend Montana State University and Tufts University School of Medicine. After completing a cardiac surgery residency at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, Warren... Full story
