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The couches and loveseats inside Donna Martinsen's new home all face outward, toward Hungry Point, turned away from the modest flat screen in the corner. Martinsen and her husband, Jim, moved into a rustic blue ranch on N. Nordic Drive in May 2017. For 53 years they had lived in a house on Wrangell Ave. that overlooks their new home. "There was no straw," said Ms. Martinsen, starting into why they moved. "It was just, that house was too big for us." The couple are in their 70s and wanted a home...
As a teenager in California, Wally McDonald watched the community he grew up in become unrecognizable and commercialized, setting the groundwork for his later effort to preserve Petersburg's character. "I've just really appreciated this town over the years," said McDonald, who's owned an apartment complex on Hammer Slough for about 22 years. "And I just want to kind of maintain it for as long as possible." McDonald owns a four-unit apartment complex on Birch Street in the historic district of...
The essence of Theresa and Dan Vick's new house is its inside diversity, between her culture with Native figurines, a totem pole, and his, with an electric guitar shaped like an assault rifle, and Norwegian memorabilia. The almost 30-year-old family pole dominates the living room of the Vicks' new 1,100-square-foot home. Carved into red cedar is a king crab and halibut, with a worm hanging from its mouth. "It hasn't been retouched," she said. "And we've had it since 1989." Mrs. Vick said the...
