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The Petersburg Borough Assembly passed Ordinance 2013-8 adopting the budget setting the millage rate for the fiscal year 2013-14 in its second reading during its regular meeting Monday evening with a few changes. In the first reading of this ordinance, the total estimated mill rate within the ordinance to support the budget was set at 11.00 and that was including the first time mill levy for the new library debt and was based on the total assessed value of real property within service area 1 being $298,411,100. The mill rate for fiscal year 201... Full story
The Petersburg High School Viking runners traveled to Fairbanks to compete in the State meet over the weekend and each of the participants placed in their events with Grace Weller breaking the school record again and placing third overall in the 3,200 meter run. “Grace started with the 3,200 and it was like 25 degrees outside,” Track Coach Brad Taylor said. “She was really unsure before the race but she ran an incredible 3,200 and broke her previous school record from the previous week by two s... Full story
May 31, 1913 – About one year ago, the residents of Scow Bay petitioned the department for the establishment of a school for their children with the result that a building was erected and in time, the school was started with Miss George of Juneau as a teacher, who has kindly furnished the following statement which shows that the money thus spent was for a worthy and necessary cause. No. of pupils enrolled Oct. 14, 1912-11 Entered at midyear-1 Left during the term-6 Average attendance for the term-8 ½ The school will re-open in Sept. 1913 fo...
Elks Students of the Month were named Monday evening. (back from left) Kris Thorsteinson, Fran Abbott, Nels Evens, Tyler Lantiegne, Skipper Erickson, Dan Loucks, P.K. Bunyi, Kyle Hagerman and Adanna Kvernvik. (front) Grace Weller, Nicole Peterson, Eva Kowalski, Marlena Erickson and Diane Murph. Eva Kowalski and Tyler Lantiegne were named students of the year....
Six local organizations received a total of $9,000 in grants from the Petersburg Community Foundation, bringing the total community grant amount to $33,000 over the past five years. “The Petersburg Community Foundation is proud to partner with these great organizations,” PCF Advisory Board Chair Liz Cabrera said. “Thanks to our donors and their generous investment in our community, PCF was able to support a variety of projects and programs this year.” Organizations and projects that received funding were: the Petersburg School District receive...
Mange Tusen Takk To the Editor: Having worked on the organizational end of the Festival for many years, I understand the huge amount of year-around effort it requires to pull off a successful event like this past Little Norway Festival. Thank you so much to Holli Flint and her Festival Committee, to the Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and their Director Sally Dwyer and all the organizations hosting Festival events for another job well done. Rain or shine, visitors and locals all had a great time. Congratulations to Jill Williams as the well...
James and Gayle Eastwood of Petersburg Alaska are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter Roberta Eastwood, to Martin Harrington, son of Andrew Harrington and Robyne of Fairbanks Alaska. Roberta is a cum laude graduate of the University of Alaska Fairbanks and divides her time between fishing on the family vessel and working as a museum technician in Fairbanks. Martin is also a cum laude graduate of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and will be attending Montana State University...
This letter is late in coming. I’ve been putting it off because there just aren’t words I can think of to express how thankful and humbled my family and I have been by everyone’s generosity and love during my sister, Sharon McAdams’s illness and her passing. It was a very sad time for my family and it would have been much harder without the love and support of everyone. I want to start with giving a BIG “Thank You” to everyone at the Petersburg Medical Center. You should all be so proud of the genuine loving care that you provide here in Peters...
May 15 Petersburg Public Works was notified of a big pothole with jagged edges at Haugen and N. Nordic Drive. A warning was issued to an individual for partially blocking the Hammer and Wikan parking lot on the 200 block of N. Nordic Drive. May 16 A hole was reported in the bridge on Sing Lee Alley. Officers were notified of someone trespassing onto a boat at South Harbor. May 17 A warning was issued for driving with only parking lights on S. Nordic Drive. Officers made contact with an intoxicated individual on Kiseno. The officers made sure th...
May 9 Gina R. Stafford, 44, appeared before Judge Trevor Stephens for a bail hearing. Bail remained the same and trial was set for July 23, 2013. May 15 Rhonda Jacobsen-Wilson, 23, appeared before Magistrate Desiree Burrell for a change of name hearing. All postings in the newspaper had been completed and the name change was recommended to Judge William Carey. Wilson is now known as Rhonda Krystal Wilson....
Petersburg Borough resident Lynn Escola and her husband Paul Johnson questioned the assessment of their property over the past five years during the Petersburg Borough Assembly regular meeting Monday evening. “I am here to question the accuracy of property assessments and the records that the Borough maintains,” Escola stated. “There seems to be a lack of accountability on the part of the Borough for these records and property assessment values.” Escola and her husband own property at 7 mile Mitkof Highway, which are actually two pieces...
National Maritime Day on May 22 is a holiday created by Congress in 1933 to honor America’s sea-going industry. It marks the day when the steamship Savannah set sail from Georgia on the first ever transoceanic voyage under steam power. As celebrations are underway, another maritime benchmark will be set as the first full container of 18 tons of fresh salmon from Chile is offloaded from a cargo ship in California after an iceless month at sea. How can that be? By using fuel cell technology in a new way. A fuel cell is an electrochemical e...
Petersburg Marine Mammal Center Board Members Don Holmes, left, and Scott Roberge, right, stand by the newly-installed interpretive sign. It is placed in the mini-park at the south end of the Rasmus Enge Bridge, overlooking Hammer Slough. The sign explains the importance of estuaries to the marine system. It was constructed using funds from a City of Petersburg Transient Room Tax Grant....
Alaska Marine Safety Education Association (AMSEA) will offer a fishing vessel safety and drill conductor course on Saturday, June 8. Participants practice hands-on in the water and on a vessel, with emergency equipment that should be onboard any commercial fishing or other sizeable vessel — PFDs, life rafts, immersion suits, EPIRBs, fire extinguishers, and practice emergency procedures like man overboard, abandon ship, fire fighting and flooding control. Contact AMSEA in Sitka at 907-747-3287 or www.amsea.org for more infor...
Petersburg Chamber of Commerce Retail Committee Chairperson, Savann Guthrie, requested that the Petersburg Borough Assembly reconsider their decision on tax free days Monday evening during the regular meeting. Guthrie gave the Assembly an alternate date of Oct. 5 for consideration in the future. “I was quite shocked when there wasn't even a motion made on the ordinance for the sales tax free day,” Guthrie stated. “I believe the Assembly made a mistake in not approving the sales tax free day.” Guthrie explained that she was there represe...
Petersburg High School senior, Krissa Davis, competed in the State Science Symposium in Fairbanks for her project entitled “Testing Organic Labeling Laws by the Presence of GMO's in Corn,” and took fifth place. For this fifth place finish, Davis qualified to attend the National Science Symposium in Dayton, Ohio. This project essentially tested organic, all-natural and unlabeled food items to see if they would find the GM marker for presence or absence determinations. For the Fairbanks Symposium,...
In celebration of Law Day, May 1, the Alaska Supreme Court sponsored the Justice For All Contest. Petersburg Elementary student, Maia Cowan won first place in the kindergarten to fourth grade category out of 90 entries across the state of Alaska. Students were asked to submit art and a statement on the theme; Fairness, Diversity and Equality. “Our justice system depends on these traits to be successful,” Petersburg Magistrate Desiree Burrell said. “It is refreshing to see how our kids under...
The 32nd Annual Petersburg Chamber of Commerce King Salmon Derby gets underway this Friday morning at 7 a.m. The derby continues through the Memorial Day Weekend and ends Monday at 5 p.m. Two tagged fish will be available for anglers this year. Derby Committee member Doug Welde reported two King Salmon were tagged on Wednesday morning near Frederick Point. The tagged fish could bring a derby angler a chance at $5,000 from Hammer and Wikan and the other could garner a $10,000 prize sponsored by...
Southeast Alaska Power Agency CEO, Trey Acteson, provided a presentation during the Assembly meeting on Monday night outlining the services and mission of the SEAPA organization. Acteson stated that SEAPA's mission is to provide the lowest wholesale power rate consistent with sound utility planning and business practices. SEAPA exists for the long-term benefit of the member utilities and the rate payers, providing unified regional leadership for project development and prudent management of the...
Curtis Arthur Fisher, 81, died on May 3, 2013 at his home in Yankton, S.D., surrounded by loved ones. He was born in Bismarck, N.D. on December 17, 1931, son of Art and Lila (Stirling) Fisher. He was raised on a farm at Hazelton, N.D. Curtis Fisher married Lorraine Keller on November 15, 1952 in Linton, ND and they just celebrated their 60th Wedding Anniversary. Together they lived in North and South Dakota, Iowa and Southeast Alaska. Curtis was a member of many groups and organizations and had...
Patricia Ann Martin, 70, went on to be an angel in heaven on May 16, 2013. She died at home looking over the Wrangell Narrows with her devoted husband, Larry Martin, at her side. She was born on May 8, 1943 in Pittsburgh, Penn. She grew up in Florida where she attended Seabreeze High School and Cosmetology School, and came to Alaska in 1970. She and Larry married in 1983, she used to say the adventure really began then. Pat loved anything to do with the outdoors – hunting, fishing, the ocean, a...
