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The candidate filings for the 2021 Municipal Election to be held on October 5 have been released. Two three-year seats on the Borough Assembly will be on the ballot. There are eight candidates running including incumbent Bob Lynn, Paul Anderson, Lars Christensen, Thomas Fine-Walsh, Marc Martinsen, Brandi Thynes, Dana Thynes, and Jim Vick. Assembly Member Taylor Norheim has previously stated that he will not seek reelection. The School Board has two available seats, each for a three-year term....
Sealed bids for three parcels offered in a public land auction were opened Monday. The first parcel, numbered 01-003-521, is located at 306 Sandy Beach Road. It is zoned as single family, residential, and is 18,002 sq. ft. Water and wastewater utilities are available along with electricity being available at the front of the lot. It's assessed value is $56,800 and any bids on the property were required to be at least $60,220. The highest bid was submitted by Chad Villamor and was $71,099. The...
OBI Seafoods celebrated 200,000 cases of salmon packed by sounding their steam whistle at noon on Wednesday. It was the first time since 2013 that OBI has canned 200,000 cases according to OBI Fleet Manager Don Spigelmyre. "It's basically a celebration to let the town know that there's still salmon coming through," Spigelmyre said. This was the second time that OBI sounded the steam whistle this year. They previously marked 100,000 cases of salmon canned on August 9. The whistle also serves to...
The Kake Access road is expected to be completed by mid-October according to Project Manager Garrett Paul. The estimated $40 million project forms a 37 mile long road from Kake to a new boat launch near Twelvemile Creek. Paul, who works with the Alaska Department of Transportation, said that approximately seven miles of new roads have been completed and between 15 and 20 miles of existing roads have been improved. "Overall our goal is to make this route an easily traversable one, so to do that...
August 26, 1921 Having completed the laying of 45 miles of cable from Cape Fanshaw to Petersburg and cutting out the Cape Fanshaw Y the cable ship Burnsides cut in the new cable early Wednesday morning and Petersburg is now connected directly with Juneau and with Sitka. As soon as the new switches are installed in the local office and the cable set at Wrangell the new system will be complete, according to Sergeant Rex Dunlop of the Burnsides. August 23, 1946 Rainfall of the three really wet days this week brought up total rainfall for the...
The U.S. Census Bureau has released population data from the 2020 Census. The census is conducted every 10 years and is used by the local, state, and federal governments to allot seats in legislatures across the country and allocate funding based on population. The Petersburg Borough census area recorded 3,398 residents. This was an increase of 6.1% from 2010 census which recorded 3,203 residents. In 2010, 2,948 people were listed as specifically being from the city of Petersburg which was...
The Petersburg Medical Center reported seven active cases of COVID-19 Wednesday, all of which are travel related. Three active cases are residents and four active cases are non residents according to PMC. The cases have not been linked to community spread. Hospitals across Southeast Alaska are seeing limited hospital capacity as the number of positive cases increases across the state. The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services reported 593 new cases, 121 hospitalizations, and 13 deaths...
This Juniper class seagoing buoy tender passed by Petersburg heading north Saturday afternoon....
A kayaker was rescued Sunday by a good Samaritan and the Coast Guard near Keene Island. A good Samaritan found the man approximately 14 nautical miles south of Petersburg after his kayak overturned and brought him aboard a vessel. The man was then transferred to a Coast Guard Station Ketchikan 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew. The Response Boat was diverted by Sector Juneau watchstanders after receiving a report of the kayaker from the Petersburg Police Department at 11:30 a.m. The man was...
Me, Myself and I To the Editor: Millions of people are sick and dying of covid, or as the unbelievers, uneducated call it "the Sniffles." I can't understand with 99% of the medical community saying covid, especially covid delta is making millions of us sick and killing us yet people refuse to get a simple vaccine approved by the FDA. It saves lives and keeps people from extreme illness. Why do people listen to talk show host Phil Valentine (RIP) who told his followers not to get vaccinated with...
August 18 — Property was found near Sandy Beach Park and the owner was notified. An officer conducted a civil standby at the police department. An officer responded to assist the Volunteer Fire Department after a report of a fire alarm on N. Nordic Dr. A sighting of a black bear sow and cub near Howkan St. was reported. Officers responded to a reported disturbance near S. Nordic Dr. August 19 — A deer was reported tangled in a batting cage near the ball fields and extricated himself. Property was reported lost near Birch St. Property was rep...
The Vakker Sted affordable housing complex on Excel Street will be ready to accommodate residents by January 1, 2022 according to Glenn Gellert of Swell, LLC. The building will house 15 units with 2 one-bedroom units and 13 two-bedroom units that will mainly be leased to low-income residents. Though the framing of the building was slow, the plumbing job has gone faster than expected so the construction schedule has evened out. The roof was recently put on, so not even the rain will slow down con...
Photography and art pieces submitted by Petersburg residents to the 52nd Annual Southeast Alaska State Fair are being featured at the library until the end of the month. The fair was held July 29 - August 1 in Haines, Alaska and saw many exhibits from Petersburg win awards. "It's fun to see what people create around the region and see people from different towns," said local artist Josef Quitslund. "It's a good way to connect with the greater region." The fair was cancelled last year due to the...
Ray Wesebaum became the new building official and code enforcement officer in May for the Petersburg Borough. "It's just something different, just a new experience," Wesebaum said. Wesebaum has been in construction for most of his life and though his new role does not entail working outdoors around trucks and ditches all day, he said it has been a pretty easy transition. "Just a lot of paperwork now," Wesebaum said. "I did pass my first certification for the residential inspector, but I've...
The Petersburg School District has hired seven new teachers for this upcoming school year as the schools seek in person instruction under the new COVID-19 protocols. Dustin Crump will be teaching Spanish and PE at Petersburg High School and Computer Science at Mitkof Middle School. He is originally from North Carolina and attended the University of North Carolina at Wilmington where he earned a bachelor of arts in Spanish. His wife is from Petersburg and after their wedding, they moved to...
Nutrition, Native ways and knowing where your fish comes from. That multi-message forms the nexus of a new partnership of the Bristol Bay Native Corporation, salmon fishermen and Bambino’s Baby Food of Anchorage. Bambino's launched the nation’s first subscription service with home delivery of frozen baby foods in 2015, and was the first to bring the frozen option to U.S. retail baby food aisles (devoid of seafood). Wild Alaska seafood has always been front and center on the Bambino menu since the launch of its baby-sized, star-shaped Hal...
A deer trots along the beach....
Yngvar Sonnichsen studied civil engineering and art in Norway and Paris, emigrating to North America in 1902. By 1908, he was picking apples in Eastern Washington and fishing in Alaska during summers. He painted murals which reside in the Sons of Norway Hall in Ballard; and his art won Gold and Silver medals at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle in 1909. This work, dated 1918, is an unidentified forest ranger at Cape Fanshaw, given to the Dixon family by Sonnichsen. He also painted...
The last Outdoor Recreation Creation Adventure (ORCA) camp of the summer finished at Sandy Beach on Friday, focusing on educating kids about eating healthy foods and staying active. The camp was a collaboration between Kinder Skog and the Petersburg Medical Center along with help from many local businesses and organizations. "It's all focused on super foods, super activities, super kids and just trying to get them out and being healthy, moving their bodies, eating the right kinds of foods,"...
There were eight active cases in Petersburg reported Monday according to the Petersburg Medical Center’s COVID-19 Dashboard. All active cases are related to travel and community spread is not currently being identified. Every Borough and Census Area in Alaska is on a high alert level as case numbers have reached their highest levels since December 2020 according to the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services. Travel increases the risk of COVID-19 infection and PMC continues to encourage... Full story
