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A week after the Sandy Beach Playground was installed, organizers said the playground has enhanced the park and gotten nonstop attention from the younger members of the community. The new playground replaced a 25-year-old playground that consisted of some digging equipment, a swing set and a slide. Desi Burrell, one of three organizers of the project, said auditors recommended the replacement of the aging playground several years ago. Because the Petersburg Rotary Club had installed the original...
Purple lupines were in bloom along Snake Ridge Road this past weekend....
The Petersburg School Board adopted the fiscal year 2022 operating budget at their meeting on June 8 that has a total revenue that is below the school district's expenditures for the year. According to budget documents presented to the school board, the fiscal year 2022 operating budget is based on a total of $8,043,406 in revenue. Because the school district is anticipating an enrollment of 415 students this fall, the school district will see a drop in state funding of $696,443 over last year...
June 17, 1921 R.L. Clifton, for the past three years principal of the Valdez Schools has been offered the position as principal and teacher of the High School by the Petersburg School Board. The offer was made on the recommendation of Territorial Superintendent Henderson. Mr. Clifton’s credentials were received by the board on the Watson and they at once wired offering Mr. Clifton the position. He has been at Valdez for three years but this year desires to make a change on account of friction between himself and the school board there. Mr. C...
As the Petersburg Borough prepares to end its Local Disaster Emergency Declaration and disband the Emergency Operations Center at the end of the month, Incident Commander Karl Hagerman said during the COVID-19 community update on June 11 the local COVID-19 Dashboard would continue to be a local resource of all things COVID-19 related. "It's been quite a long haul, very rewarding," said Hagerman. "But I'm ready to get back to my normal job for sure." With the end of the Local Disaster Emergency...
Petersburg Medical Center will keep offering COVID-19 vaccines past the expiration of the Local Disaster Emergency Declaration at the end of the month. PMC Director of Nursing Jennifer Bryner said at the COVID-19 community update on June 11 that the hospital's efforts to vaccinate the community against COVID-19 have remained unchanged. While the hospital isn't anticipating large vaccine clinics in the future, like the ones held at the beginning of the year, smaller vaccination clinics are still...
If our old friend, and my mentor, the late Sen. Ted Stevens were with us today, he would have a short and direct solution to the extended deliberations of the Alaska Legislature and governor. It would be: "Just do what's right for Alaska." And he might add a few expletives. It's past time for our governor and a majority of our legislators to recognize the responsibility of each of them to represent the current as well as the long-range interest of Alaskans. This can only be done by making...
Gov. Mike Dunleavy must have learned how to manage state finances from the same people who guard the world’s biggest secret recipes: Col. Sanders’ fried chicken, Coca-Cola, Big Mac’s special sauce, Twinkies and Dr. Pepper. Keeping secrets from customers is smart marketing hype. Keeping secrets from the public is irresponsible. And, in the governor’s case, it’s dishonest. Dunleavy, who served on the Matanuska-Susitna Borough school board and later spent five years in the state Legislature, should know his arithmetic — if he had paid attention i...
Landless legislation needs support To the Editor: I am 80 years old now and was born here at the Petersburg Hospital as was my mother. Thirty years ago Spencer Israelson, who spent his youth at Point Agassiz, took me to the mainland and showed me many petroglyphs that he and his friend had found as they grew up in the area. He also showed me, as well, evidence of a native fish trap at Muddy River. My grandfather, Carroll Clausen, took me to Sandy Beach when I was eight years old and showed me...
June 9— Suspicious activity was reported at a location on Nordic Dr. Authorities served a trespassing notice to an individual at an undisclosed location. Dylan Barger, 23, was charged with criminal trespassing in the second degree and theft in the fourth degree. Authorities issued a warning to an individual driving the wrong way down a one-way road. Authorities responded to three parking complaints at undisclosed locations. June 10— An intoxicated individual was causing a disturbance at an undisclosed location. William Craig, 29, was issued a s...
Five of the 10 Petersburg Devil's Thumb Shooters Club members placed in multiple events at the AlaskaYess State Shotgun Championship Tournament in Chugiak on June 8. Seventy athletes between the grades of four and 12 competed in the tournament. Petersburg has a tradition of bringing home several marksmanship awards, and this year was no different. Tyler Miyaki, competing in the intermediate class of seventh and eighth graders, had his first straight 25 clay breaks in a row in trap, according to...
Motor Pool Department employees lifted up a Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department truck on Wednesday while training with their new column vehicle lift. The lift was purchased for $54,952.47 in March....
A porcupine picks at a bush on June 9 near Frenchy Creek Rd....
Alaskans who are engaged in or interested in mariculture are invited to become founding members in a new group that will advance the growing industry across the state. The newly formed Alaska Mariculture Alliance (AMA) is a private non-profit successor to a five-year task force formed in 2016 by Governor Walker and re-authorized in 2018 by Governor Dunleavy. The task force will sunset on June 30. “One of the priority recommendations was to create a long term entity that would coordinate and support development of a robust and sustainable m...
Emma I. Chase graduated from Oregon State University with a Bachelor of Science, Bioengineering degree....
For the kids enrolled in Kinder Skog's summer program, all they wanted to do on Wednesday was go to Sandy Beach Park to play on the new playground. "The kids wanted to come down, so that's where we ended up," said Kinder Skog Mentor Rickki Malone. Katherine Pilcher, 10, Luci Maldonado, 8, Cali Compton, 8, Rebel McGrath, 9, and Kade Norheim, 8, spent their time at Sandy Beach enjoying the new playground equipment, but spent most of their time on a large circular swing that resembles a tire...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) —Graduating seniors in Juneau will be allowed to earn half a credit less than prior graduating classes under a change adopted this week that was billed as a way to acknowledge the impact the pandemic has had on learning. Under the change adopted by the Juneau School District Board of Education, the graduating classes of 2022, 2023 and 2024 would need 22.5 credits to graduate, rather than the 23 credits previously required. Reducing the elective credit total by a half-credit would allow “more time for recovery of core con...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Senate delayed action on a state spending package Tuesday, as lawmakers evaluated their options for getting needed votes on a budget and completing their work ahead of a Friday special session deadline. The budget proposal that advanced from a six-member conference committee Sunday attached strings to funding for programs like the annual dividend paid to residents. It was criticized by some lawmakers as a strong-arm tactic. Dividends typically have been paid using earnings from the state’s oil-wealth fund, the...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The federal government announced plans Friday to “repeal or replace” a decision by the Trump administration last fall to lift restrictions on logging and road building in a southeast Alaska rainforest that provides habitat for wolves, bears and salmon. Conservationists cheered the announcement as a positive step. Republican Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy criticized it and vowed to use “every tool available to push back.” The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s plans were announced on a federal regulatory site with little deta...
The Journal of Agnes Johnson Steberg Agnes Johnson Steberg taught in Petersburg around 1914. In 1916, she married and moved to town, living here until 1922. In 1915 she took a month-long steamship tour around Southeast Alaska. Agnes was a teacher at heart, keeping a journal of camping in places like Portage and Thomas Bays, and visiting Wrangell, Metlakatla, and Petersburg. The journal begins: "Those who know you not, oh Northland, Who have never seen your beauty, Deem you desolate and lonely...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Wildlife officials in Alaska have said two campers were attacked by a bear this weekend while they were sleeping in a tent in Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist Jeff Selinger said the campers were sleeping when the bear attacked Saturday around midnight, Anchorage Daily News reported Saturday. The campers had bear deterrents but did not have enough time to use them. “There’s no indication that they did anything to prompt the attack or did anything wrong,” he said. “It’s one of t...
