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The Petersburg Borough assembly voted in favor of directing Borough Manager Steve Giesbrecht to move forward in the next four steps of the land swap between the borough and Petro 49, Inc. at an assembly meeting on Monday. A recent appraisal of the Petro 49, Inc. warehouse and vacant lots located at 703 S. Nordic Dr. valued the building and property at $365,000. Borough land at 902 S. Nordic Dr. and 100 Dock St. were valued at $285,000. If the borough were to engage in a land swap with Petro 49,...
The Petersburg Borough Assembly received a response from Forest Service Chief Vicki Christiansen after sending three letters requesting information about a possible review of the Tonka and Big Thorne Integrated Resource timber contracts. "I share your interest in a consistent, sustainable timber sale program on the Tongass National Forest that supports the local economy while adhering to strong policy, management and financial controls," wrote Christiansen in her letter to the assembly....
The Petersburg School Board approved the hiring of Heidi Cabral as Rae C. Stedman Elementary School's newest fourth grade teacher at their board meeting last week. Cabral has been an instructional aide with the district for the past year, but has experience teaching sixth grade and English as a Second Language in Kansas. There is a large class of about 44 students coming into the fourth grade next year, so the district had to hire a second fourth grade teacher. Cabral said there will likely be...
The Petersburg School Board approved changes to 11 board policies in its first reading as aligned by the Association of Alaska School Boards to current changes in law. According to Superintendent Erica Kludt-Painter the changes to the board policies are minor. Some of the policy changes add language related to culturally responsive education and cultural and tribal consulting, which was the case in the changes to board policy regarding philosophy, school-based management/site councils and...
WRANGELL - Renovations to Shoemaker Bay Harbor missed the substantial completion deadline last Friday, on May 17. Capital Facilities Director Amber Al-Haddad said that contractors were expected to have the renovations far enough along that boats could be docked in the harbor once again, while the rest of the project was completed. This did not happen, she said, and the whole project has been thrown off schedule "Their whole schedule has been pushed back," Al-Hadd said. "Everyone's really...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska's unemployment rate remained steady at 6.5 percent last month. Federal labor statistics show that rate has held since August. Unemployment stood at 6.7 percent in April 2018. The state labor department says employment was up an estimated 0.9 percent from April 2018, with construction adding the largest number of jobs at 1,800. Health care and oil and gas each added 500 jobs over the period while manufacturing had the biggest decline. The department says manufacturing in Alaska is mostly seafood processing. The s...
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A hiker and his dog ate berries and moss while they were lost for days in Alaska, he said. Logan Holmer, 26, of Missouri, and his dog started hiking the Far Mountain Trail May 7 and became separated from their group the next day, The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported Monday. Holmer brought two days’ worth of food and ate the last of it on the fourth day, supplementing his diet with the plants he found, he said in a social media post quoted by the newspaper. “I was laying in a huge bed of these plants and I pulle...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A lawsuit has been filed against a retired University of Alaska Anchorage anthropology professor who is banned from campus over sexual misconduct allegations by multiple women. David Yesner is named in the federal lawsuit filed Wednesday along with The University of Alaska system and the University of Alaska Board of Regents, Anchorage television station KTVA reported. Plaintiffs maintain Yesner was allowed to use the UAA campus as his own personal “hunting ground” while the university shielded its reputation inste...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska will pay armed Canadian police to provide protection to U.S. personnel at a ferry terminal in British Columbia, state transportation officials said. The Alaska Marine Highway System was notified in March that unarmed U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents checking ferries leaving Prince Rupert, British Columbia, will require assistance from Royal Canadian Mounted Police, CoastAlaska reported Friday. Without armed police at inspections, the port faces closure, officials said. The Canadian officers will be c...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska air carrier involved in two deadly floatplane crashes in a week has voluntarily suspended operations, federal officials said Tuesday. The halt of flightseeing and commuter flights is in place indefinitely, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The action comes after the passenger and the pilot of a Beaver floatplane operated by Taquan Air were killed when the single-engine aircraft crashed in Metlakatla Harbor on Monday afternoon during a 22-mile (35-kilometer) commuter flight from Ketchikan. T...
The top Festival drawing winner of $1,500 was Svea and Brandt Burrell. The $2 raffle winners: Jess Peterson won two round trip tickets with Alaska Airlines, Jenny Martens won a $500 Chamber of Commerce gift certificate and Ase Andersen won $250 in cash. Strongman results: Lightweight Women: Rachel Newport; Heavyweight Women: Alice Williams; Lightweight Men: Kyle Cheeny; Heavyweight Men: Sam Jensen. Guns & Hoses Fire Truck Pull: The Petersburg Fire Department, or Hoses, won the...
An orca was spotted Wednesday afternoon in the Wrangell Narrows....
May 23, 1919 Both the H Van Vlack Company and Earl Ohmer are finding the shrimp business to one of the leading industries in this section. Both are processing shrimp at the Citizens Dock. Ohmer is using his own boat and preparing about a ton of shrimp daily for market. May 19, 1944 Colleen McDonald, valedictorian of the graduating class at the Petersburg high school, has been given the Seventh Annual Award of the Reader’s Digest Association for students who by their successful school work give promise of attaining leadership in the c...
Damien and Deborah Ream stand on the bow of the F/V Charles T. The vessel celebrated its 100th birthday this year, so a special centennial celebration was held during Mayfest. The Reams traveled to Petersburg from Florida for the sole purpose of experiencing the Little Norway Festival....
Saturday, May 18...
May 15 — A patrol was request on Wrangell Ave. Authorities responded to a disturbance at a location on S. Nordic Dr. An intoxicated person was reported at the North Boat Harbor. May 16 — An alarm was activated at Pump Station #2. May 17 — A welfare check was conducted at a location on N. 1st St. Authorities responded to a disturbance report at a location on N. Nordic Dr. May 18 — Individuals fighting at a location on S. Nordic Dr. were reported to authorities. A patrol was requested on N. Nordic Dr. A dog entered a vehicle at the Petersb...
Olive Wellner, left, and Emery Wedge were happy to meet Smokey the Bear and help celebrate his 75th birthday....
The Petersburg High School varsity baseball team won their first game in three years on Friday against Thunder Mountain. Friday's varsity game had a unique start. Opening pitcher for the Vikings was Thomas Durkin, and Thunder Mountain's opening pitcher was Stone Morgan. The two had been good friends and played on the same little league teams growing up. Morgan had moved to Juneau since the last baseball season and now the two players, for the first time in their lives, were playing against each...
In his 46 years as Alaska’s lone representative in Congress, Don Young helped toss out foreign fishing fleets from Alaska’s waters with the onset of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA) in 1976, and today he is intent on doing the same with offshore fish farms. The MSA established an ‘exclusive economic zone’ (EEZ) for U.S. fleets fishing from three to 200 miles from shore. Now, a bill introduced by Young aims to stop the Trump Administration’s push to use those waters for industrialized fish farming operation...
All 15 students on Petersburg High School's track and field team qualified for State after competing in the regional tournament in Juneau over the weekend. Even though all the students qualified for State, only five will actually compete in Palmer this weekend. Head Coach Tyler Thain said it can be a bit expensive traveling to Palmer and the students have to miss several days of school during final exams. Additionally, some of the students only qualified for State in one or two events. "A lot of...
May 16, 17 & 18 in the Wright Auditorium...
