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The remodel of the Petersburg Municipal Power and Light building is complete and on Wednesday employees and Billikin Transfer were moving furniture and equipment into the building. The sweeping remodel of the building was completed on schedule. Rainforest Contracting Inc. executed the remodel contract. Karl Hagerman, the utility director, said Wednesday that he hopes the move will be completed by the end of the week. He added that the utility remains open for business during the move. The...
Alaska Humanities Forum's (AHF) second cohort of Alaska Salmon Fellows convened in Petersburg at the Holy Cross House for 5-days beginning with a reception at the Sons of Norway Hall last Friday. According to Fellow Kris Norosz, this was the first time the cohort of 16-fellows had met in person. The Alaska Salmon Fellows work to facilitate conversations about salmon issues and identify innovative opportunities to strengthen the resource for future generations. A contingent of about 28 people,...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A veteran Alaska state trooper was charged with attempted sexual abuse of a minor. Investigators said Trooper Vance Peronto met a 16-year-old girl on a traffic stop, contacted her through social media and arranged to meet her Sunday at a hotel in Anchorage, where he was arrested. Online court documents Monday did not list Peronto’s attorney. The Alaska Department of Public Safety announced the arrest Monday. “This case and investigation have been handled in the same manner as any other, and we are informing the publi...
May 3, 1918 A message received by the local exemption board Tuesday morning stated that fourteen men is the quota for Petersburg in the first draft call, and, further, “that it is desired to call this number of men to the colors in your jurisdiction as soon as possible. Please advise this office of the earliest possible date on which you can be sure to have the men ready for entrainment.” The quotas for other towns of the territory are as follows: Juneau 83, Douglas 20, Haines 3, Ketchikan 83, Sitka 16, Skagway 9, Wrangell 10, Nome 26, Anc...
Sea otter creating imbalance To the Editor: The reintroduction of the sea otter has created an imbalance of human resources and sea life. A much larger impact is looming: Before the sea otters reintroduction to Southeast Alaska’s Archipelago, fishermen fished all types of fish and crustaceans but find themselves now regulated nearly out of business while the reintroduced sea otters continue to ravage the shallow bottoms of all estuaries of Southeast. I can assure that within the next ten years, without proper regulation and control of this pred...
The Petersburg Volunteer Fire Dept. responded to a single vehicle rollover accident in the 800 block of Sandy Beach Road at about 4:40 a.m. Friday. The vehicle was headed toward Sandy Beach Park and apparently flipped and rolled in such a way that the car was headed in the opposite direction. A roadside fire hydrant was struck and broken off during the incident. Fire Dept. spokesman Dave Berg said the driver was ejected through the driver side window, landed in the upper edge of the ditch and...
April 25 — Police responded to LeConte RV Park on a loud noise complaint. An abandoned vehicle was reported on N. Nordic Dr. and on Hungerford Hill. Police provided a courtesy transport on Harbor Way. A wayward dog was returned to its owner. A noise complaint was reported on S. 4th St. April 26 — Extra patrols were requested on Wrangell Ave. for speeding motorists. Police disposed of suspected Meth found on Harbor Way. Owners of vehicles parked at the Mile 6 Mitkof Hwy. turnout were notified to have them removed. Loud noise was reported at a S....
April 29, at about 9:00PM, Alaska State Troopers on Prince of Wales Island received a report of gunshots being fired inside a residence in Thorne Bay. Investigation revealed 74 year old Thorne Bay resident Mike Steele assaulted two household members and was discharging a firearm inside the residence. April 30, at about 9:45AM, Steele was arrested and transported to Craig Police Department where he was held without bail. He was charged with two counts of Assault III, one count of Assault IV, and one count of Misconduct Involving a Weapon IV. No...
The Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game has mapped 32 nautical miles of herring spawn through April 27, including 1.0 nmi of active spawn in Salisbury Sound. Spawn deposition surveys were conducted on April 7-11 and on April 24-25. Final results from this year's stock assessment will not be available until November 2018. However, some general information can be derived from the data collected to date. Nearly all spawning this year occurred along shorelines of Kruzof Island, Hayward Strait, and the...
Sig Mathisen, skipper of the F/V Marathon, was among the seven top winners of the 2018 annual tag recovery incentive drawing for sablefish tag returns. He received a $250 prize. Other winners were: Duane Torgeson, Sitka, $1,000; Dennis Beam, Oregon, $500; Jim Hubbard, Seward, $500 and receiving $250 each were Dwight Riederer, Washington, Ian Rabb, Douglas, and Thomas Nelsen, Ketchikan. All persons who return an ADF&G sablefish tag receive a tag reward (T-shirt or fishermen’s knife). Tag returns with valid recovery information (fisherman’s nam...
The Federal Subsistence Board announced on Monday it will be closing its Chinook salmon subsistence fishery in the Stikine River this year due to low expected returns. Under the authority delegated him by the board, Ranger Bob Dalrymple of Wrangell's Forest Service district made the decision to close down the fishery. Preseason forecasts made by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game informed the decision, with 6,900 king salmon greater than 28 inches in length expected to return. Management...
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced this week that the lingcod sport fishing seasons, bag and possession limits, annual limits, and size limits have been established for the Northern Southeast Area (see attached map). In this area the following regulations apply: Northern Southeast Area Season: May 16 – November 30. Limits: o Residents – 1 daily, 2 in possession, no size limit. o Nonresidents – 1 daily, 1 in possession, size limit: 30 inches or greater in length and less than 35 in...
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Alaska District will be available to discuss and answer questions about the regulatory program at an informational open house in Petersburg on Tuesday, May 22, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Petersburg Municipal Building Assembly Chambers, 12 S. Nordic Drive. Representatives from the Corps’ Regulatory Division will be available to answer permitting questions regarding requirements for placing fill and structures in waters of the United States and provide assistance with p...
WRANGELL — The city is inching toward a planned purge of the island’s abandoned vehicles and assorted clutter. The unsightly problem has been a longstanding issue in public parking spaces such as at Shoemaker Bay Harbor, with unroadworthy vehicles left there to the elements. But under municipal code junk vehicles on private property are also not allowed, and the rule extends to other collections on display deemed to be a “nuisance” by authorities. This means disused vehicles like cars and boats, rusting piles of scrap or broken equipme...
A shuffle in some funding leaves Alaska’s commercial fisheries division in good shape to manage the resources and target important projects across the state. At first glance, the $69 million operating budget for FY19 appears to be down slightly from last year’s $72.3 million but that’s not the case. “Most of that difference is a sort of ‘cleanup’ in authority we no longer had funding for, such as the Alaska Sustainable Salmon Fund, test fishing and some interagency items. The rest is due to $1.1 million shortfall in Commercial Fisheries E...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A ballot initiative that aims to strengthen a state law that protects salmon habitat has made its way before the Alaska Supreme Court. The court heard arguments Thursday on whether the initiative dubbed Yes for Salmon can appear on the November ballot, the Alaska Journal of Commerce reported. State attorney Joanne Grace argued that the ballot initiative would ban large development projects like mines, which cannot avoid disturbing salmon habitat. By the initiative enacting such a ban, the state claimed the L...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Legislature has passed a resolution urging the federal government to reconsider its listing of marijuana as a controlled substance. The resolution also asks the federal government to respect the state’s authority to regulate the use, production and distribution of marijuana in Alaska. The House voted 37-0 Monday to accept changes made by the Senate. The Senate passed the resolution unanimously earlier in April. Alaska voters in 2014 approved legalizing recreational use of marijuana by those 21 and older. Mar...
KENAI, Alaska (AP) —Alaska’s SeaLife Center is getting its third shot at raising thousands of octopus hatchlings, hoping at least one of the translucent mollusks will grow into its 50-pound (23-kilogram), color-changing form. Such a task has been completed just once before — by the Seattle Aquarium in the 1980s, the Peninsula Clarion reported . The aquarium won an award in 1982 for successfully raising the giant pacific octopus. The SeaLife Center had hatchlings twice before, in 2005 and 2013. This time, the center’s octopus named Gilligan, nam...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service has unveiled a draft plan to deal with an increase in visitors at Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier. The Forest Service last week released the plan calling for a new 7,000-square-foot (650-square-meter) visitor facility, a boat and dock system to ferry visitors across Mendenhall Lake, new trails and a mobile visitor center near the glacier, the Juneau Empire reported . The Forest Service has yet to release the full plan, but said the objectives are to decrease crowding, enhance opportunities for locals, a...
