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Karen Malcom won this year's King Salmon Derby after battling a 46.4-pound Chinook last Saturday afternoon. Besides fishing the derby one day last year, Malcom hasn't fished during the annual event for 15 years until last weekend. "My husband invited me to spend the weekend fishing with him and I took him up on it," Malcom said. "It was good quality time with he I and my dog. It was a family outing." Stan Malcom and Karen Malcom got skunked Friday. Stan Malcom caught a halibut on Saturday and... Full story
Despite fears this winter of dipping into its reserves, the Petersburg School Board unanimously approved a balanced budget for the 2014/2015 school year without spending from reserve funds. Petersburg School District Finance Director Karen Quitslund presented the budget to the school board last week. She outlined several budget considerations including recent legislation passed during this spring session that increased the base student allocation (BSA) by $150, which brings total funding per student to $5,830. Petersburg schools will have an an... Full story
The Petersburg girls track team placed higher than any other Petersburg team in history during last weekend's state meet in Anchorage. They took fifth out of 29 teams from across Alaska. Ith placed first in the 100 Meter Hurdles and Triple Jump. "She won the first time in the first two state events that she had ever entered," head coach Brad Taylor said. "She was the highest 3A point getter at state. She's been phenomenal." Ith will run in the Brian Young Invitational this weekend in Kodiak-an... Full story
Petersburg High School seniors are graduating next Tuesday in the high school gym. Petersburg School District teacher Sue Harden is retiring this year and will be the honored speaker during the ceremony. Among the many highlights at the event, the school’s band and choir will perform and Class Historian Fran Abbott will provide a history of the class. Petersburg High School and Mitkof Middle School Principal Rick Dormer said the senior class tends to set a tone for the school’s climate each year. This year’s class has created a quieter and c...
Three Petersburg WWII veterans returned from Washington, D.C. earlier this month where they toured the city and its war memorials as part of a national Honor Flights Program. Gerald Lind, 88, who served in the Air Force on crash boats and rescued downed pilots along the Aleutian Islands, said he and the other 49 veterans were well received. "The fun part for me was we were treated like we were the kings of the world," Lind said. "It's unbelievable to be greeted and cheered and clapped and...
May 30, 1914 – The construction of a water system for the town has actually been started. The new council has taken hold of the work with energy born of a sense of duty that promises to supply the town with a dire necessity. For the last three years, the construction of a plant has been the subject of discussion and irritation, but not much of anything else until the present council, fired with an enterprising spirit started the work. May 31, 1974 Celebrating the Pilot's 40th Year– George Rice's seventh grade capped a year-end class on avi...
Local resident and painter Beth Flor will have 45 of her paintings on display and for sale in a solo exhibit at the International Museum of Art in El Paso, Texas. Flor paints in a style named contemporary realism. "A common thread is light and shadow patterns in the works here and down there," Flor said. "Because it's in El Paso they're more interested in my work I do in Mexico." Flor travels and paints in Mexico for five months out of the year and the museum in El, Paso is particularly...
Last week, the Petersburg High School LeConte Glacier survey team tracked the latest movements of the tidal glacier after surveying its terminus earlier this month. Students traveled by skiff and helicopter to the site where they measured LeConte’s terminus, or the point of the face of the glacier furthest out. They used vertical and horizontal plane measuring instruments called theodolites. “To make it easier for ourselves, there are stakes driven into the rocks so we can set up on the same points year after year after year,” junior Kyle...
May 21 Caller reported a civil disagreement with a neighbor. May 22 Officer gave warning for lighting requirements. Caller reported vehicles parked without permits. May 23 Caller reported screaming and yelling at residence. Officer investigated a report of an intoxicated individual approaching minor females. Caller reported individuals yelling at each other. May 24 Caller reported fumes from a burn entering their residence. Officer responded to a report of minors drinking and partying. May 25 Caller reported a driver driving out of lane and...
May 22 Tonya Gallant appeared before Magistrate Judge Burrell on a charge of Driving Without a Valid License. The court entered a not-guilty plea on the defendant’s behalf and set conditions of release. May 27 Charles King appeared before Magistrate Judge Burrell on a charge of Driving Under the Influence.The court entered a not guilty plea on the defendant’s behalf and set conditions of release including no possession or consumption of alcohol and the defendant is banned from being on premises where alcohol is the primary item for sale. Rod...
The Petersburg Vikings lost two games to Thunder Mountain and Sitka in Juneau last week. Head Coach Jim Engell said despite the loss to Thunder Mountain, his team succeeded defensively. “This is the third game where we’ve had the ability to win defensively and just can’t come up with the runs offensively,” Engell said. “That’s tough.” The Vikings offense had six hits compared to Thunder Mountain’s four, but Petersburg left eight runners stranded on bases throughout the game. Pitcher Colby Bell struck out ten batters and gave up four runs, two...
The Petersburg Borough Assembly will discuss changes to the borough’s sales tax code after Sue Flint, Sales Tax Committee Chair, presented it's recommendations last week. After months of discussion, the committee recommended two changes to Petersburg’s sales tax code—increasing the sales tax cap to $1500 and requiring PFDs, instead of driver’s licenses, as proof of residency for senior sales tax exemption cards. There was a long list of exemptions, such as pull-tabs, fish box tax and-- the most contentious issue-- senior exemptions, which the c...
The Petersburg Community Foundation awarded its annual grants on May 17, 2014. The grants, valued around $10,000, included: Petersburg Medical Center - $335 to support new instructional materials for the Physical Therapy Department, Working Against Violence for Everyone (WAVE) - $400 to support volunteer advocate training in 2014, Petersburg Public Library - $750, to support the 2014 Amazing Rainforest Race, Petersburg Children's Center - $1,308 to support new teaching materials for S.T.E.M....
KETCHIKAN (AP) — The operator of a state-owned salmon hatchery near Petersburg says it is moving forward with plans to rebuild the portion of the facility destroyed by fire in March. The Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association operates the Crystal Lake Hatchery, whose fish-incubation building burned in the blaze. The association's operations manager Bret Hiatt told the Greater Ketchikan Chamber Of Commerce on Wednesday that the coho salmon release was lost in the fire and so was a large portion of king salmon, the Ketchikan Daily Ne...
Salmon season is just getting underway, but seafood companies are still selling last summer’s record catch of 226 million pink salmon - and it has prompted lots of creative thinking. “The challenge is to market all this fish and still maintain the value,” said Tyson Fick, communications director for the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI), the state’s lone marketing arm. “It wouldn’t be any problem for the producers just to flood the market, and then we would see a tremendous downward pressure in years to come. More so, we see this as...
WRANGELL - According to news reports, a Tlingit hat sold for $365,000 on the auction block at Sotheby's of New York May 21. The hat's sale had been opposed by local Alaskan Natives and board members of the SEALAKSA corporation on the grounds that as a sacred at.óow object, it never should have left possession of the Wrangell Kiks.áadi clan in the first place. The hat was in the style of an Aleut hunting cap with Tlingit embossments and accents and was carved by master carver Wiliam Ukas, who c...
FAIRBANKS (AP) — Oil companies that own the trans-Alaska pipeline will have 30 days to appeal a State Assessment Review Board decision to set the value of the pipeline system at $10.2 billion. The decision last week set a figure sharply higher than the $5.7 billion set by the state assessor. Oil companies contend the system should be valued at $2.7 billion and municipalities such as the Fairbanks North Star Borough argued for $13.76 billion. The decision can affect oil companies' property tax bills by tens of millions per year, the Fairbanks Da...
Gonzaga University Carolyn Kvernvik has earned placement on the Gonzaga University President's List for spring semester 2014. Students must earn a 3.7 to 4.0 grade-point average to be listed. University of Southern California Robert Davidson, son of Bill and Hoopie Davidson, recently graduated from the University of Southern California with a master of science degree in geographic information science and technology. Robert is a 1993 graduate of Petersburg High School. He is a senior GIS project manager with GeoNorth, LLC in Anchorage,...
Gerald "Jerry" Patrick Wollen, 58, was born in Aberdeen, Washington on June 14th, 1957 to parents James and Ruth. He had wonderful memories of his early years growing up with older brother Jamey and younger brother Randy, his many cousins and friends in the little town of Oakville, Washington. He remembered fondly their paternal grandparents Oscar and Alice Wollen, often telling stories of those early years that remained a cornerstone of the childhood adventures of his youth. As the boys grew... Full story
