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Cindi Lagoudakis, the interim mayor of Petersburg, has decided to run for the permanent seat in October, retracing strong indications that she wouldn't. "A number of people had asked me to reconsider," Lagoudakis said. "And after giving it some hard thought, in the end I decided to run." Debbie Thompson, the Borough clerk, confirmed last week that Lagoudakis filed for candidacy. Before becoming interim mayor, Lagoudakis spent time on the Assembly, where her experience was rewarding, she said....
A Petersburg man was released from custody on $50,000 bond last week while facing 6 charges of murder, manslaughter and assault. William Christopher Allen is on house arrest and awaiting a murder trial that is scheduled for November 13, but will likely be pushed to next year. He paid $25,000 in cash bond last week and will have to pay another $25,000 if he violates the conditions of release. Allen is charged with two second-degree murder counts, two manslaughter counts, one count of assault and one count of unsworn falsification in the second d...
August 17, 1917 – Included in the call for bids carrying mail on all steamboat or other power-boat routes, in the territory of Alaska is a new route (No. 78066) from Petersburg to Red Bluff Bay and way points. The route covers the points supplied by the Hogue & Tveten boats the last two years. That the new route will be established there can be little room for doubt, as the department recognizes that the big herring canneries and other permanent stations in the fishing industry now operating at the several points make this mail service a n...
Karl Hagerman, the Petersburg Power & Light interim supervisor, recently outlined about a dozen city projects in a 30-minute update to the Assembly. "The Utility has a very large reserve," Hagerman said. "So the Assembly wanted to know what projects could be accomplished with those savings." This also comes after the Assembly requested an overview of those projects before moving forward with finding the permanent replacement to head the department. Now that Hagerman gave that report, he said it...
The Borough Assembly in its meeting last week approved a bid award to upgrade radios, renewed a lease with a fuel company and adopted two city ordinances. The Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department will be upgraded with new radio operations for ambulances, fire trucks and other vehicles, according to a letter of recommendation from Sgt. Randal Holmgrain. ProComm Alaska, a Motorola certified company, will be installing the radios for nearly $45,000. The Assembly approved a new five-year lease with Petro 49, the fuel company land near South Nordic...
The deadline to submit applications for candidacy in the October election is next week, and there has been an unusually low amount of submissions so far, said Debra Thompson, the Borough clerk. “It’s going to get better,” Thompson said. “I promise it will.” There are 23 elected positions this year and only eight people have filed for candidacy, Thompson said, with the deadline approaching on Tuesday, August 22. “Yeah, that’s no good,” Thompson said. “I sure hope something changes. We have way too many open seats.” The mayoral seat will b...
Hooray for photos To the Editor: Hooray for the photo contributions by John Havrilek and Carli Byrer, so that there was something pleasant in last week’s Pilot, as compared to images of “your’s truly.” H.C. Gilliland...
The country is preparing for an astronomical moment that hasn’t happened in 99 years, and southeast Alaska will witness about 60 percent of it. For the first time since 1918, a total solar eclipse will cut through the United States on Mon., August 21. A 70-mile wide totality line will move through the country, starting at Oregon and ending in South Carolina. People within that line will see the moon pass between the sun and earth completely, causing a brief period of daytime darkness, said Rick Braun, a land surveyor and Petersburg resident w...
Two separate police reports from the Petersburg Pilot made news in the Ketchikan Daily News Weekend Edition column, Southeast Log on Aug. 12-13. The log is a compilation of news taken from newspapers published in Southeast Alaska and in Canada. Under the heading, “Uh, gee, thanks for calling!” the columnist noted, “Police received a report of suspicious activity, but the location was not disclosed.” Another headlined: “Seriously?” stated, “Police conducted traffic stops on the Drive Down Dock.” Traffic stops were made at several locatio...
The Petersburg Borough Assembly and Hospital Board will hold a joint work session to discuss the Borough/Hospital relationship, the Hospital’s ideas for a potential new building, and financial health and planning at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, August 23 in the Assembly Chambers of the Municipal Building. The work session is open to the public and the public is invited to attend, but no public testimony will be taken....
Aug. 9 — Police responded to two disturbance calls on N. Nordic Dr. and on Mitkof Hwy. A vehicle theft was reported on Scow Bay Loop Rd. Police provided transportation at mile 2.4 Mitkof Hwy. Alcohol use was reported at Buschmann Park. Police made traffic stops on Chief John Lott St. and in the 1100 block of S. Nordic Dr. Suspicious activity was reported at the 500 block of Lumber St. Jeremy L. Johnson, 38, was cited for Liability Insurance Required. Aug. 10 — Police responded to disturbance calls at Ira II St. and 4.5 St. and on Excel St. Sus...
WRANGELL – Fifty women from Petersburg and Wrangell played in a golf outing on Saturday to raise money for cancer patients in southeast Alaska at the 2017 Rally for Cancer Care. The outing, sponsored by the Wrangell Medical Center Foundation, generated more than $3,200 to help pay for travel costs that cancer patients have. The Muskeg Meadows Golf Course hosted 34 players from Petersburg and 16 from Wrangell. Others came just to donate, participate in the silent auction and eat breakfast and l...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Dispatch News has announced it is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is in the process of transitioning to new ownership. KTVA reports the newspaper’s potential buyers might pay as much as $1 million for the paper. Those buyers included four siblings — Ryan Binkley, Wade Binkley, James Binkley and Kai Binkley Sims — as well as Alaska Media LLC, publisher of the Arctic Sounder, The Bristol Bay Times and the Dutch Harbor Fisherman. A statement from Dispatch News publisher Alice Rogoff called the decisio...
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska mayor is having second thoughts about a voter-imposed ceiling on how much money the borough government can collect from year to year. Fairbanks North Star Borough Mayor Karl Kassel said budgeting for the future based on a mathematical formula is flawed. No formula can take into account all of the unforeseen circumstances that impact local government, he said. Kassel’s comments come as the tax cap marks 30 years in effect, the Fairbanks Daily News reported. Signatures are being collected to put the tax-cap que...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Luck Dunbar was napping during a routine flight when he heard a loud noise, woke up and realized the commuter plane was dropping. Dunbar was one of five people aboard the plane Monday morning when it was heading from Skagway to Juneau, Haines radio station KHNS reported. An engine failure prompted pilot Joshua Poirier to make an emergency landing in the ocean. “(Poirier) pointed over by Coghlan Island and he said, ‘I think we’re going to lay her down over here,”‘ Dunbar said. As the plane dropped, Dunbar said he was thin...
Mrs. Willis Kindergarten: Andrew Ayriss, Colette Boggs, Tavyn Cabral, Jovee Coil, Sabrein Cole, Anya Curtiss, Alex Deberry, Hakon Eddy, Ethan Edwards, Emmett Flor, Daven Lopez, Luciana Maldonado, Rebel McGrath, Victoria Miller, Daisy Morrow, Bay Odegaard, Una Romine, Rosalie Sheldon, Jamari Tate, Serenity VonWeller, Summer Wells, Lucia Worhatch Mrs. Martin Kindergarten: Freya Fenner, Brylynn Fletcher, Devyn Flint, Shane Gilbert, Aidrick Glass, Arya Holmgrain, Cora Hyer, Kendyl Lachapelle, Evelyn Litster, Cedar Littleton, Lydia Morrison, Declan...
Alaska aims to get in on the growing popularity of Home Meal kits that will deliver seafood directly to American kitchens. The kits typically offer a subscription based service where customers order weekly meals based on how many people they plan to feed and their food preferences. The kits include portioned, high quality ingredients with foolproof cooking instructions and can be delivered within hours or overnight to nearly all locations. Many grocery stores also are providing in-store options that don’t involve delivery. The kits typically c...
PETERSBURG — The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced August 15, that the 2017/2018 commercial Dungeness crab fall fishing season in Registration Area A (Southeastern Alaska) will be reduced in duration. All waters open to commercial Dungeness fishing in SE Alaska will open at 8:00 a.m. on Sun., October 1 and will close at 11:59 p.m. on Tues., October 31, 2017. In accordance with the Southeastern Alaska Dungeness Crab Management Plan [5 AAC 32.146(3)], the department has completed an analysis of the incidence of legal-size male s...
Colleene P. Carlson Brososky, 87 passed away on December 14, 2016 at the Petersburg Medical Center. She was born to Ellery and Ann Carlson on August 18, 1929, in the Petersburg Alaska Territory. She attended business college in Terre Haute, Indiana. In her lifetime she enjoyed many different jobs including being a bookkeeper, assistant manager for Montgomery Ward, professional seamstress working in her home and various other businesses throughout Seattle. Her most prized occupation was that of...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A teacher shortage across the nation has added to Alaska’s ongoing problem of educators fleeing the state, leaving school districts scrambling for teachers with just a few weeks until classes start, school officials said. Numbers from August 4 show 155 teaching positions and 90 special education positions are open across the state, according to Alaska Teacher Placement. About half of Alaska’s school districts are still looking for teachers to hire for this school year, KTOO-FM reported. Lower Kuskokwim School Distr...
