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Cooke Aquaculture announced the signing of a definitive agreement to purchase Icicle Seafoods earlier this week. The purchase will mean new ownership for one of the largest seafood processors operating in Alaska now owned by Paine and Partners, a California-based investment group. Paine acquired Icicle in 2007. The announcement came through a Cooke Seafood news release and means one of the largest Atlantic salmon farming companies on the Canadian east coast will now become a player in the... Full story
Petersburg Borough Assembly member Kurt Wohlhueter wants to let the people of Petersburg choose whether or not retail marijuana will be allowed in town and will propose such an idea at the May 16 Borough Assembly meeting. Wohlhueter said the assembly has not discussed the opt out option allowed by state regulations, which some communities in Alaska have already done. “I want to see if we can get it (opt out option) on the ballot in October and let the people of Petersburg decide whether we want it because that was always one of the things (... Full story
The Petersburg Chamber of Commerce board of directors knew exactly what to do when faced with finding a new administrative manager. They contacted Mara Lutomski. She had shown prior interest in the position and the board thought of her as a qualified replacement for John Havrilek, who recently retired from the position. "We had about three days together," she says laughing of training with Havrilek. "He showed me the ropes. It is basically a self-starter position." Lutomski is currently in her... Full story
May 13, 1916 – That Petersburg is to be the permanent northern buying headquarters of the Glacier Fish Company, of Tacoma, is now assured. Joseph Maddock, general manager of the company, arrived from the south last Monday and has been busy all week arranging for the handling of fish on a more extensive scale. The cold-storage ship Glory of the Seas is expected to leave Tacoma in tow of the big tug Tyee. She will be stationed at Scow Bay, and it is planned to have her loaded to capacity with about two million pounds of frozen fish at the c...
Petersburg Medical Center staff and board members face tough decisions and an even tougher fiscal climate as they continue discussion on how to improve or replace their inadequate facility. PMC board, staff members and architect Joann Lott from Jensen Yorba Lott Architects met last Friday, May 6 to discuss the pros and cons of different options. Lott met with the PMC board last October when it presented a facility assessment. Many of the building’s issues include but are not limited to several mechanical and electrical systems in the L...
The Borough Assembly and taxpayers spend too much time discussing the question of equitable millage rates for differing sections of the borough. Many property owners say their millage rate should be determined by the quantity and quality of services provided to residents in a given area. We believe the 4-mill rate for folks outside Service area 1 is reasonable and should not be subject to adjustment based on services provided, since there are virtually no services provided to those areas by the Borough. The late Louie Severson was a member of t...
City of Kupreanof residents are celebrating their city’s 40th anniversary this Saturday, May 14. Current Kupreanof Mayor Tom Reinarts said activities are planned and he hopes people will head across the Narrows to enjoy the Kupreanof experience. “We’d like everybody to come over and visit us and join us in celebrating the 40th anniversary of our incorporation,” Reinarts said. Kupreanof, which was officially incorporated in October 1975, is one of the lowest populated cities in the state—24 residents, according to Reinarts. The area wasn’t al...
A Haines puppeteer performing arts group, Geppetto's Junkyard, will be performing in the Wright Auditorium during this year's Mayfest activities. Debi Knight Kennedy, a puppeteer in the group, said they perform one to two shows a year and, this time around, the troupe has specifically tailored its performance for Petersburg audiences. "A Viking from Petersburg named Inar goes off in search of adventure and gets swallowed by a whale and then we see what happens next," Knight Kennedy said....
May 4 SECON requested a vehicle parked in a construction zone be moved. A caller requested a welfare check on individuals. May 5 A verbal warning was issued for unsafe equipment. A citation was issued for overtime parking. A caller reported gas stolen from skiffs. May 6 A caller was following a reckless driver. A caller reported a vehicle speeding through a neighborhood. An officer gave a warning for no turn signal. May 7 A caller requested extra patrols for Howkan Street. An officer responded. A caller requested a welfare check. Officers...
May 5 Aaron Marohl appeared before Magistrate Judge Burrell for a minor offense trial regarding ticket for failure to stop at a stop sign. The court found Marohl not guilty of failure to stop at a stop sign. May 6 Sean Casey appeared before Magistrate Judge Burrell for a bail hearing. The court set bail at $500 among other conditions of release. May 9 Taylor Homer appeared before Magistrate Judge Burrell for charges of driving under the influence, driving while license is canceled, suspended or revoked and two counts of misconduct involving a...
The Petersburg High School baseball team notched its first wins of the season against Thunder Mountain High School last weekend. The Vikings hosted the Falcons for a three-game series that included senior appreciation ceremonies between game one and two of a Saturday doubleheader. “We made some mistakes, but I felt we started to put some things together,” said head coach Jim Engell. “We played really well, considering the circumstances we were playing in were less than ideal.” The weather was rainy with some wind thrown in, but a lot of loca...
Thirteen track and field athletes competed at a Thunder Mountain High School meet in Juneau last weekend, and a couple accomplished new personal and school records despite bad weather. “It was miserable,” says head coach Brad Taylor. “It was rainy, windy, yeah, it was not very nice.” Taylor says the team took a small crew to the meet because the majority of the athletes stayed home for AP and SAT exams. The girls still managed to take fourth place and the boys tied for sixth place with Thorne Bay High School. The girls would have been in the...
When the Mitkof Middle School started a robotics class nearly 10 years ago only a couple students took the course. This quarter, there are 14 sixth-graders taking part and learning problem solving skills through hands-on experience. Rick Brock is responsible for bringing the program to Petersburg after seeing how well it worked at another school. Brock researched the program and thought it would be a good addition to the middle school's Exploratory Program, and asked the school to invest in sett...
The Petersburg Borough Planning and Zoning Commission held three public hearings at their meeting Tuesday morning, and declined to approve a rezoning application for Pat Magill-Stevens. The application sought to rezone Lot 14, Skylark Addition from public use to mobile home park. The proposed mobile home park would be between Vesta St. and Skylark Way. Multiple residents living in the area spoke against the rezoning effort, some attended the meeting and others sent letters to be read into the record. The residents all live in the area, and...
Alaska salmon fishermen can get rebates on pingers aimed at keeping baleen whales away from their gear. The six inch, battery operated tubes are tied into fishing nets and transmit animal-specific signals every five seconds to alert the animals to keep their distance. “Pingers can be really helpful to alert the whales to something in front of them so you have less entanglements,” said Kathy Hansen, director of the Southeast Alaska Fisheries Alliance. SEAFA received a $25,000 Hollings Grant from the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation to fund t...
AMSEA will offer a 10-hour Fishing Vessel Drill Conductor Refresher workshop on Monday, May 23, from 8:00 am – 7:00 pm at the Tides Inn. This is for commercial fishermen that have previously completed a Fishing Vessel Drill Conductor workshop and want to update their skills. Register online at www.amsea.org or call (907) 747-3287....
AMSEA will offer its “Upright & Watertight: Vessel Stability Awareness” workshop Tuesday, May 24 from 8:00 am – 2:00 pm at the Tides Inn. Register online atwww.amsea.org or call (907) 747-3287....
The Petersburg School Board met Tuesday, May 11 and approved the hire of Joyce Metsa for next school year’s high school math teacher. The board also approved a new social studies curriculum and a new SHOP Lite (low intensity technology education) course aimed at encouraging female students to enroll. “We lack in having, I’m trying to think of the exact words there, pretty much we don’t have enough girls in Shop,” Petersburg middle and high school principal Rick Dormer said. Shop LITE features basic woodworking, basic automotive maintenan...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska legislative committee on Tuesday unveiled a draft oil and gas tax credit bill aimed at breaking an impasse that helped send lawmakers into overtime, proposing to phase out most existing credits and calling for a new tax structure for Cook Inlet by 2019. But it received a muted response from some lawmakers who say it doesn't go far enough in making changes or lowering the state's tax liability. The head of the Alaska Oil and Gas Association, meanwhile, said the draft, like previous versions of the bill, would h...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A small airplane hit a bald eagle before it crashed and burst into flames just north of Anchorage last month, killing all four people on board, authorities said Wednesday. It is the nation's first civilian plane crash to result in deaths after an impact with a bald eagle, said Shaun Williams, a National Transportation Safety Board investigator. There have been other crashes involving eagle strikes that resulted in serious injuries, he said. Remains of the eagle were found on the plane's tail structure, Williams said. Th...
