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The USDA Forest Service Petersburg Ranger District announced the final decision for the Thomas Bay Young-Growth Timber Sale on Feb. 22. With the specific goal of the timber industry's transition away from logging old growth to harvesting young-growth timber, the Forest Service weighed the regulations, strategies, public input and environmental considerations and selected a plan that will allow harvest of roughly 561 acres of young-growth forest -amounting to about 12.6 million board feet of...
This week, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that four school districts in the country would receive the new Healthy Meals Incentives Recognition Award, for "their trailblazing and innovative efforts to improve the nutritional quality of meals for their students." Petersburg School District was among those four receiving the national recognition. These awards - part of the Biden-Harris administration's Healthy Meals Initiative (HMI) - celebrate school districts who embrace... Full story
March 7, 1924 – Of the many neglected products of our salt waters, none compare with the sea mussel in abundance, nutritiousness and palatability, according to “Fish Cookery,” by expert Dean John N. Cobb of the University of Washington college of cookery, published by Little Brown & Company. This book states that the mussel has a wide distribution, the Atlantic species extending down the eastern coast while a closely related species extends down the west coast to San Francisco on the Pacific coast, and is extremely abundant everywhere withi...
The Alaska Mental Health Trust Land Office (TLO) and State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) met with the Petersburg Borough Assembly Monday night for a work session to discuss platting and plans for a large subdivision project created and proposed by the TLO to the borough last fall. According to the TLO, the South Mitkof Subdivision proposes to subdivide approximately 500 acres of Trust land into 100 lots -each averaging 5-7 acres in size- accessed via public access and utility easements...
Pharmacy Corner To the Editor: We would like to thank the community of Petersburg, and especially our patrons over the past two weeks, for your patience in the backlog of prescriptions services. As some of you may know, pharmacies across the country were basically shutdown in billing third parties due to a cyber attack that affected Change Health. Change Health is the billing transmission platform we use to relay what we bill to the insurance to receive the copays or coinsurance you pay at the counter. Our ability to communicate that...
Dear Friends and Neighbors: Last week the House debated amendments to House Joint Resolution 7, which would add language to the Constitution that would obligate the state to pay out a dividend in the amount in state law. We will continue to debate the resolution this week. In order for this constitutional amendment to go into effect, it must pass the House and Senate by a two thirds vote and then be approved by a majority vote of Alaskans in a referendum. Bills that Passed the House last Week HB 148, AK PERFORMANCE SCHOLARSHIP, ELIGIBILITY...
It was a perplexing week in the Legislature. While the Senate Finance Committee was reviewing honest numbers about real budget needs hitting up against the limit of available state revenues, the House was debating whether the exalted Permanent Fund dividend belongs in the Alaska Constitution, putting the PFD above all else in life. The Senat committee last week was doing the math, realizing the state would not have enough money for a fat dividend this year, no matter what the governor and too many legislators may pledge, promise and promote....
February 5, 2024 Magistrate Judge Rachel Newport presided over a change of plea proceeding where Kelly Wilbur Brown entered a guilty plea to Criminal Trespass 1. The sentence included 90 days of jail with 90 days suspended, $100 police surcharge, $50 jail surcharge, and 18 months of probation. February 13, 2024 At arraignment, Kylene Hedlund entered a not guilty plea to Violating Conditions of Release and was released on her own recognizance with all prior conditions the same. At a change of plea proceeding, Wayne Vincent Friday entered a...
February 28 – An officer assisted with a lockout on Wrangell Avenue. An officer assisted in contacting individuals blocking the snow plow on Fram Street. An officer assisted with a lockout on Mitkof Highway. Chris Haerling was cited on Mitkof Highway at Hungerford Hill Road for operating a vehicle without a valid license and failure to provide proof of insurance. A deer was killed on Sandy Beach Road and its meat was salvaged. An officer assisted with a lockout on 4.5 Street. An officer responded to a reported loud noise on North 2nd Street, b...
As of early Thursday morning, Phil Hofstetter is 496 miles into the the Iditarod Trail Invitational; he has around 450 miles still to go before he reaches the finish line in Nome. He is on day ten of riding his fat tire mountain bike alone, in subzero temperatures from the starting line in Anchorage, nearly a thousand miles, to Nome. 107 racers started the Invitational this year, most of them were aiming for the 350 mile finish line in McGrath, Alaska. 39 had to give up for one reason or...
Alaskan actor L'xeis' Diane Benson plays Bee, an Inupiaq cleaning woman, in the HBO series True Detective. The season finale aired last month, which meant the embargo was lifted and Benson was free to talk about the experience of performing in the show. Benson lives in Petersburg now, but she has lived all over the state. And she's done all sorts of things. She was a professor of Alaska Native Studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, an activist politician and Democratic candidate for stat...
Last Friday morning Stedman Elementary school students, their teachers, family and friends gathered in the Wright Auditorium for the final round of the school's annual spelling bee. Each classroom in grades two through five sent their top two spellers to the stage. Sue Paulsen, who performed the role of "The Pronouncer," led the students through elimination rounds. At the beginning of each round, Paulsen asked the competitors to stand. Starting with simple, single-syllable words like four and...
The middle school wrestling season just officially wrapped up, although for the Mitkof Vikings it was over a couple weeks ago since none of our wrestlers were able to pay their way to state. That was especially disappointing for Drew Beavers, who placed 2nd at the regional meet in Ketchikan. Looking back at the season, Petersburg hosted the Stikine Invitational meet less than two weeks after winter break, and Viking wrestlers performed strong against the fifty or so visiting wrestlers. In the...
The Vikings finished their regular season off strong with two wins against Craig last weekend in Petersburg. Friday's game was a back and forth brawl with a dominant fourth quarter performance, but on Saturday the team was dominant all game long, giving the team some momentum as they head into the regional tournament this week. Although Friday's game had highs and lows, the Vikings started things off with a bang. "We had a good start to it. We had a 16-5 lead at the end of the first quarter and...
The Lady Vikings took on Craig on their home court in Petersburg last weekend wrapping up their regular season with an exciting two games series. The team had difficulties in their first match on Friday night, but they shifted strategy heading into Saturday's match, giving them an edge that led to their highest scoring game of the season. According to head coach Matt Pawuk the team initially had a rough time adapting to Craig's style of basketball. "We really struggled in the first half, I...
WRANGELL — A Georgia-based developer who has taken a liking to Wrangell has offered the borough $200,000 for the former hospital property, with plans to tear down the building and construct as many as 48 new housing units. Wayne Johnson’s offer on the 2-acre property is contingent on striking a deal to purchase six smaller borough-owned lots behind the hospital building, adding an additional 1.3 acres to the development site. The purchase price for the hospital property, which has been vacant since SEARHC moved into its new Wrangell Medical Cen...
