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The Class of 2019 completed their high school careers in a commencement ceremony on Tuesday that saw 30 seniors from Petersburg High School receive their diplomas. Of the 30 graduating seniors, 17 have definitive plans on attending college. Two students plan on joining the military. Two students have plans to attend a trade school. George Skeek will be moving to Sitka to begin a wood carving career, and Koren Sperl plans on attending flight school to obtain his commercial pilot license. Fifty sc...
The borough assembly passed the borough's proposed budget for the 2020 fiscal year at an assembly meeting last week after making two more amendments to the budget. The assembly voted on four amendments, but only two were passed. As approved in its second reading, the budget will allocate $4,000 to the City of Kupreanof and will include the health insurance savings of $200,000 for using the same insurance provider as the Petersburg Medical Center. Both amendments were proposed by Vice Mayor...
A motion to rescind the assembly's previous approval of the purchase of a $179,250 excavator failed in a 6-1 vote during an assembly meeting last week. At their May 6 meeting, the borough assembly approved the award of a request for proposals to NC Machinery for a used Caterpillar 320 excavator. According to Public Works Director Chris Cotta in an email to Borough Manager Steve Giesbrecht, the borough's fiscal year 2019 motor pool budget included $182,000 for the purchase of an excavator to...
The borough assembly amended Ordinance #2019-04 to allow fireworks in service area one during two days of the year in the ordinance's second reading last week. The ordinance, which would fine individuals up to $500 for lighting fireworks in service area one, originally included language that allowed fireworks to be lit legally in service area one on July 3 and 4 and December 31, and during a certain time of the day; however, a motion to amend the ordinance to not allow fireworks in service area...
Petersburg Medical Center's board of directors will be holding a special meeting this evening to approve or deny NAC Architecture's phase one master plan proposal for the construction of a new facility or remodel of the current building not to exceed $220,000. The PMC board discussed the awarding of the RFP to NAC Architecture on Thursday at their regular board meeting, but the proposal had only been received earlier that day. The board members said they wanted time to look over the proposal...
The Petersburg Medical Center board of directors passed a resolution that grants authority to specific board members to work with one of the hospital's financial institutions after the resolution was tabled at last month's meeting. The resolution was originally tabled because of its ambiguous wording. Under the resolution, the president, vice president and treasurer of the board are allowed to perform such actions with Hilltop Securities, as opening a brokerage account and transferring and...
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced May 23, sport fishing regulations for Alaska hatchery-produced king salmon in areas near Petersburg and Wrangell. Wrangell Narrows/Blind Slough Terminal Harvest Area Described as that portion of Wrangell Narrows south of 56° 46' N. latitude (Martinsens's dock) and north and east of the northern tip of Woewodski Island and includes the freshwaters of Blind Slough upstream of a line between Blind Point and Anchor Point. The following regulations...
May 30, 1919 C. A. Arness, president of the Arness Lumber Company arrived Friday with the new tug boat which was purchased in the south. The boat is called the Wanderlust and is equipped with a 60 h.p. Speedway engine and makes an average of 12 knots and better. The boat will furnish a speedy means of communication between Petersburg and various camps and do the lighter towing. May 26, 1944 Roy Otness, our new fire chief, has taken on his responsibilities by asking different students what they would do if our school was on fire. Here are a few...
Senator is wrong To the Editor: Last fall the USFS held public meetings on the repeal of the Roadless Rule. The consensus was overwhelming public support in favor of the Roadless Rule as it now stands, from Alaskans who live, work and play here. Since the last 10 years the Roadless Rule was formalized for Alaska, many local guiding tours and a new a line of smaller, more personal cruise ships now rely on Roadless Rule lands, besides the mega ships that bring over a million passengers a year to...
May 22 — A broken window was reported at a location on N. 1st St. A truck driving erratically was seen at Scow Bay. A disturbance was reported at S. 3rd St. May 23 — An intoxicated individual did not want to get out of the roadway on N. Nordic Dr. May 24 — A patrol was requested on Excel St. Authorities responded to a noise complaint at a location on Mitkof Highway. A man was seen lying on the sidewalk at a location on N. Nordic Dr. The man moved as authorities directed. An individual was removed from a residence at a location on S. 2nd St. M...
The Petersburg High School varsity baseball team traveled to Juneau where they had their second win of the season in the first round of the region tournament. The Vikings played Thunder Mountain in their first game of the tournament on Thursday. The weekend before, the two teams had played each other in Petersburg, and the Vikings saw their first win in three years. Less than a week later, Petersburg beat Thunder Mountain again in their first game of the tournament, 4-1. "Everything we talked...
Two of the five members of the Petersburg High School track and field team that traveled to Palmer last week to compete at State placed in the top three of their events at the meet. Aiden Luhr took second place in the 100 meter run and third place in the 300 meter run. Julian Cumps took third place in the long jump. Tolin Eddy took seventh place in the 1600 meter run and set a new personal record with a time of 4:43.99, which was also a PHS record. Eddy also took seventh place in the 3200 meter...
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — The wettest region in Alaska is experiencing the first extreme drought recorded by the U.S. Drought Monitor, officials said. Scientists say the southernmost portion of Southeast Alaska has been in a drought for the last two years, The Anchorage Daily News reported Sunday. The drought was upgraded last week to an extreme, or D3, drought, according to climatologists at the Fairbanks-based Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy. The designation is the second-highest category measured by the U.S. Drought Monitor ...
Salmon abundance in the North Pacific has declined slightly over the past decade, but salmon catches remain near all-time highs. For nearly 30 years the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAFC) has summarized abundances and catches of salmon as reported by its five member countries - Canada, Japan, Korea, Russia, and the U.S. The Commission tracks all salmon species caught in the North Pacific, Bering Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk, and also provides the venue for coordinating research and enforcement activities. For 2018, the total salmon...
Jeffrey Erickson was named to the Dean’s List at Lehigh University in the Spring 2019 semester. The following students will graduate from Oregon State University in Corvallis on Sat., June 15: Bret A. Martinsen with a Bachelor of Science, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology degree and David S. Beardslee with a Bachelor of Science, Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences degree....
From left to right: Brad Connell, Elder Laumau, Valkyrie Lynette Odegaard and Casey Hosteler compete in a shrimp picking contest during the Little Norway Festival Pageant. The contestants had an undisclosed amount of time to peel as many shrimp as possible. Odegaard and Hosteler tied for first place with 1.75 ounces of peeled shrimp. Meanwhile, Odin's ravens Huginn (Sheena Canton) and Muninn (Orin Pierson) were circling the contestants trying to distract them. The two ravens sit on either side...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A fishing boat captain who dumped sandblast waste into southeast Alaska waters was ordered to pay $10,000 and perform 40 hours of community service. Federal prosecutors say 32-year-old Brannon Finney of Bellingham, Washington, dumped waste to avoid a $1,460 disposal fee. U.S. Magistrate Judge Matthew Scoble on Wednesday also ordered 18 months of probation for Finney and a public apology. Prosecutors say Finney’s boat had been sandblasted for repainting. On June 15, 2017, she and crewmembers left Wrangell for Pet...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska House has endorsed a tribe’s effort to change the name of Saginaw Bay to Skanax Bay. Tribal leaders are pushing the change because the body of water off Kuiu Island was named for a U.S. warship that destroyed three Tlingit villages in 1869 that are near present-day Kake in southeast Alaska, CoastAlaska reported Monday. The House passed a resolution 37-0 endorsing the name change to Skanax, the Tlingit word for security. The Tlingit villages east of Sitka destroyed by the U.S.S. Saginaw were deserted in adv...
