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The borough assembly approved a resolution on Friday increasing the millage rate in service area one to 12.3 mills in response to Gov. Mike Dunleavy's decision to veto 50 percent of the School Bond Debt Reimbursement funding. The millage rate is the amount per $1,000 of a property's assessed value that is used to calculate taxes within the borough. Resolution 2019-11 increases the previous millage rate of 11.45 mills by .85 mills for property owners for in service area one. Residents outside of...
Cars were driving by honking and rock 'n' roll music was playing as nearly 100 residents gathered in front of the Petersburg Courthouse on Tuesday at 12 P.M. to protest Gov. Mike Dunleavy's 182 vetoes. Protestors were carrying signs that read "override," and "save our state." They were also signing their names on a piece of canvass that had the letters S.O.S. on it. One of the organizers, Chelsea Tremblay, said that the canvass will be sent to legislators to show that they have the support of...
For this season, about 532,000 salmon have been commercially harvested in the Southeast Alaska region, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game Blue Sheet that is updated daily. Chum salmon make up a major portion of that number at 205,000 harvested. About 163,000 pink salmon have been harvested so far, with 80,000 Chinook salmon harvested. Coho and sockeye salmon have the lowest numbers at 31,000 and 53,000 harvested this season respectively. The gillnet fisheries began opening up...
The warm and dry period that began in the latter half of June and continued into July has been unusually long and broke two high temperature records, according to Tom Ainsworth, meteorologist in charge at the National Weather Service forecast office in Juneau. The average temperatures for the month of June in Petersburg were two degrees above normal, according to Ainsworth. The normal average temperature for June is 54.1 degrees, but last month the average temperature was 56.1 degrees. June 27...
It was around noon on July 3 when Tim Koeneman was driving out the road to take his dog for a walk when he began to notice porcupine carcasses scattered on Mitkof Highway between Blind Slough and Manmade Hole. He said he counted about 14 porcupines in the roadway. "Approximately half of what we counted were young porcupine," said Koeneman. State Trooper Cody Litster was out on the water when he began getting phone calls from residents saying there were dead porcupines in the middle of the road....
Since she was 12 years old, Kara Newman has dreamed of living in Scandinavia and later this month, she will finally achieve that goal. Newman, 15, said she wanted to go to Scandinavia to better understand the culture that she grew up in here in Petersburg, although; she won't be staying in Norway, but in Sweden. Newman said that by living in Sweden, she will be in the heart of the region, with Finland to the east and Norway to the west. "I'm so excited to go," said Newman. "This has been my...
Britton Erickson marches in the Fourth of July parade holding up one of the famous rocks for the Festive Family Rocks Your Freedom group....
July 11, 1919 Three local boys, are in jail charged with having robbed the United States Post office, the Sons of Norway store, and the Wheeler Drug and Jewelry Company store.. All of the boys have pleaded guilty to most of the charges and have been bound over to the Grand Jury at Ketchikan under heavy bonds. Most of the stolen property has been recovered by the local officers. July 7, 1944 Plans are complete for opening of the child care center on Tuesday morning, July 11. Parents must accompany children for registration. In order to accommoda...
Dan Sullivan stands between the Patterson River and the exposed rock face near the Patterson Glacier terminus. Less than 20 years ago, this location was buried in ice....
Who benefits? To the Editor: How can it be that we are knee-deep in tourist effluent and Medicaid is being cut? Why isn't the State Treasury fat with income from the tourist industry? Southeast Alaska is being exploited by tour ships. We need to, A: set a limit on the number and size of tour ships allowed in state waters; B: issue permits with contractual obligations; C: get compensated for their use of the state resources, including monitoring costs. Is anyone in the state taking any action...
July 2 — A disturbance was reported at a location on S. Nordic Dr. A patrol was requested at Parks and Recreation. July 3 — A structure fire occurred at a location on Cornelius Rd. An assault was reported at the 700 block of Haugen Dr. Authorities responded to three complaints of dogs being frightened by fireworks. July 4 — A truck driving in a reckless manner at the 300 block of Hungerford Hill Rd. was reported to authorities. A vehicle was damaged at South Boat Harbor. A structure fire was reported at the seven mile mark of Mitkof Highw...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An Australia mining company is seeking permission to start exploratory drilling for the rare element vanadium in southeast Alaska. Northern Cobalt Ltd. has applied to the U.S. Forest Service for the proposed project on Snettisham Inlet, CoastAlaska reported. The site is in the Tongass National Forest about 35 miles southeast of Juneau. Vanadium is used in steel alloys, as well as rechargeable industrial batteries used in power grids and industrial plants. There are no active federal mining claims at the site. E...
A Sitka blacktail deer runs through the water on July 2nd....
July 3rd Winners Scrapfish Derby - Alicia Kittams with a three pound flounder BBQ Wing Challenge Ages 4-8 - Thomas Slaven Ages 9-12 - Blaze Cowan Ages 13-17 - Jozef Myrick Ages 18 & Up - Andy Krause Cup Challenge - Matthew Birch Bail-A-Boat - Ellexis Tracy Survival Suit Challenge - Harley Ethelbah Herring Challenge - Ellexis Tracy Watermelon Eating Contest Ages 4-8 - Wesley Durst Ages 9-12 - LeLe Rucker Ages 13-17 - Matthew Birch Ages 18 & Up - Janine Gibbons The Arena Ages 4-8 - Zeus Damm Ages...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The message on the front page of Alaska's second-largest newspaper was unmistakable. A nearly 2-inch (5-centimeter) headline, outlined in red, in Monday's edition of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner contained a single word: OVERRIDE. It appeared over a full-page editorial calling for state lawmakers to "save Alaska" from severe budget vetoes by Gov. Mike Dunleavy and the likely economic devastation that would follow. Emotions are running high ahead of a joint legislative s...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Budget vetoes of $444 million by Alaska’s governor could cause widespread job losses, economists said. Analysts and business leaders predict lost jobs are only one of the consequences of Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavey’s vetoes, The Anchorage Daily News reported Wednesday. Losses from the vetoes would be roughly between 4,500 and 7,000 jobs, according to an analysis by the University of Alaska Anchorage Institute of Social and Economic Research. Higher local property taxes could also result from the 182 line-item vetoe...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — One of the most powerful Republicans in the Alaska Senate is bucking the Senate president’s call to meet in Juneau on Monday, as legislative factions barrel toward trying to hold special sessions in two different cities, hundreds of miles apart. Senate Majority Leader Mia Costello, in an opinion piece published by her hometown Anchorage Daily News, said Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy issued a legitimate call for lawmakers to convene in Wasilla and she will heed that call. “It doesn’t matter how we feel about the governo...
During the Rotary Duck Race on the Fourth of July, Soren Eddy, Cedar Littleton and Hakon Eddy (front to back) race the ducks down Excel St.....
One fisheries item that appears to have escaped Governor Mike Dunleavy’s veto pen so far is his desire to divert local fish taxes from coastal communities into state coffers. Dunleavy’s initial budget in February aimed to repeal the sharing of fisheries business and landing taxes that towns and boroughs split 50/50 with the state. Instead, all of the tax revenues would go to the state’s general fund – a loss of $28 million in FY 2020 to fishing communities. “There is a recognition that these are viewed as shared resources, and they should be...
A wild goat and a couple of her kids were seen near the LeConte Glacier on Sunday....
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska officials closed some forest lands to all uses as a wildfire approached the Chugach National Forest, a report said. Smoke from the growing Swan Lake wildfire pushed into Anchorage Sunday, The Anchorage Daily News reported Sunday. Air quality was listed as unhealthy in Anchorage as of 11 a.m. Sunday. The fire on the Kenai Peninsula in south-central Alaska was ignited by a lightning strike June 5 and has been burning in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. The fire had stretched to about 144 square miles (373 square...
Hazel Wilcoxon, passed away Nov. 19, 2018 on her 80th birthday. Born in Petersburg, Alaska in 1938, Hazel was the oldest of the three daughters of John "Jack" and Vera O'Donnell. She graduated from Petersburg High School in 1957. She attended Linfield College and graduated from the University of Arizona. She worked in the education system as a teacher, reading specialist, and school psychologist in both Alaska and Washington. Hazel loved folk dancing and traveling. She is survived by her son... Full story
About 900 pounds of shells were shot during this year's Fourth of July fireworks show on Wednesday evening, according to Assistant Fire Chief Dave Berg....
