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The summer commercial troll season for coho and chum salmon will open by regulation on July 1, but no Chinook retention will be allowed, the Department of Fish and Game announced Tuesday. The decision to prohibit retention of troll-caught king salmon is related to an ongoing lawsuit by the nonprofit Wild Fish Conservancy against the National Marine Fisheries Service. But Alaska trollers are holding out hope that the king salmon troll season will open as usual if a stay of a U.S. District Court order is granted by the Ninth Circuit Court of...
In his last leaps of the season, Rik Cumps soared high above the Palmer High School track and landed on top of the podium at the ASAA Division II State Championships last weekend. The Petersburg High School junior placed first in both the long jump and the triple jump while fellow Vikings Elaina Enriquez, Kinley Lister, Anya Pawuk, Alexus Sakamoto-Quezon, and Erik Thynes pushed themselves to their limits at the meet. "Even though it's all small schools, all these other programs have such large...
June 1, 1923 – The Petersburg telephone system was cut in on Friday morning and is now working with twenty subscribers already connected up and more to be connected as rapidly as possible. Lilly Larsen is acting as central girl. Service is from eight a.m. to midnight, but within a short time the service will be from 5 in the morning until midnight. May 28, 1948 – A gift to Alaska from Seattle businessmen commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Alaska Gold Rush will sail from Seattle June 10. The gift will be the University of Washington Gle...
The Petersburg Borough Assembly will hold the third and final readings of two ordinances that could affect local harbor operations at its meeting next Monday. Ordinance #2023-07 would limit the amount of moorage space than can be used by live-aboards and increase fines for wake violations while Ordinance #2023-09 would codify harbor parking enforcement. Both ordinances were unanimously approved by the assembly during their first and second readings last month. The Harbor and Ports Advisory...
The Petersburg Medical Center is planning to hold free youth mental health first aid classes, teaching adult community members how to look for warning signs and help young people experiencing mental health problems. The classes are being made possible through a $10,000 grant awarded by the Petersburg Community Foundation. The grant will be used to get two hospital staff members-Katie Holmlund and Becky Turland-certified as youth mental health first aid facilitators so they can put on free...
For 41 years, Alaskans’ bank accounts have been refilled with dividends – usually more than $1,000 – from the $76.6 billion Alaska Permanent Fund. More recently, the fund also has been the biggest source of money paying for state government. But what if there was no money available for either dividends or the state budget? Permanent Fund managers have long known the fund could one day have less available to spend than is needed. They now say that day could be coming uncomfortably soon, in perhaps just three years. Since last July, it’s been a... Full story
Last week’s article “Petersburg Community Foundation awards $28,000 to local organizations” incorrectly stated that PMC’s grant funding would go to support establishing free of charge youth mental health services in town. As clarified in the story this week on page 3, the grant funding awarded to PMC will not establish direct mental health services, but is designed to provide training and tools to community members to be able to best respond to youth experiencing mental health issues....
May 24 – An officer provided a courtesy transport to an individual on Mitkof Highway needing assistance getting to the hospital. Petersburg Police Department (PPD) received a report of a dangerous driver on South 3rd Street but the responding officer was unable to locate the described vehicle. An officer provided a courtesy transport to an individual on Fram Street. An officer responded to a complaint of a parked vehicle blocking access on North 2nd Street. The owner was contacted and the vehicle was moved. May 25 – An officer conducted extra f... Full story
The U.S. Forest Service is still seeking volunteers to fill out seats on the South Tongass Secure Rural Schools Resource Advisory Committee (SRS RAC), but with the deadline to apply fast approaching the committee is at risk of not having enough members to hold meetings. According to the Forest Service, RACs review proposals for projects on National Forest System lands, provide advice to the department, and vote on recommendations for the allocation of federal Secure Rural Schools Act funding to...
Petersburg baseball's hope of a return to the DII State Championship game lives on. The Alaska School Activities Association state committee announced on Sunday that the team earned the second at-large seed in the tournament, which will be held at Wasilla High School this weekend. There the Vikings will face Kodiak in the first round on Thursday, June 1 at 12:30 p.m. Petersburg ended the regular season 3-14-1, having faced one of the strongest schedules in the state, with wins over Palmer and...
Troy E. Anderson, 77, of Petersburg Alaska, passed away on May 23, 2023. Troy retired in 2003 after working for the City of Petersburg for 25 years. He loved fishing and being outdoors in general. He was predeceased by his parents, Florence (Penny) and Marvin Anderson; brothers, Tim and Chuck Heikkila. He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Roseanne Anderson; son, Brian Anderson; daughter, June Downey; four brothers, Joe, Jerry, Marty and Wayne Heikkila. His presence will be greatly missed on... Full story
Petersburg Parks & Recreation closed the doors to the community center Monday to begin their annual summer maintenance, which will last until June 12. The fitness court and aquatic center are both receiving several important tune-ups during the two-week period, breathing new life into the facilities and ensuring that everything runs smoothly for another year. Parks & Recreation Director Stephanie Payne said, "We have a few surprises for the weight room...that way when people come in, they do...
