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While the black bears on Mitkof Island usually eat their fill of natural resources like blueberries and salmon before it's time to hibernate, unsecured garbage cans in Petersburg tempt the animals with a buffet of easy eats. Black bears have made their trek to town, breaking into a number of garbage bins and stashing litter over the past several weeks. Local authorities on the situation stress that abiding by borough law and properly securing garbage is essential to deterring bears from town....
With repair of the GCI fiberoptic cable expected sometime in the next two weeks, Sitkans are using the Starlink at the library and “getting a crash course in Networking 101 today” from the Central Council of Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. Sitka lost internet sometime around 11:30 a.m. last Thursday when an undersea cable broke. GCI provided a statement to the Sentinel today: “A subsea fiber break occurred August 29, impacting all GCI services in Sitka. Our teams have successfully restored basic mobile voice and text services using...
A moody change of season over Labor Day weekend sends cloud wisps through the trees on a mountainside near Petersburg....
Ketchikan Fire Department firefighters on Sunday brought joy and some relief to the community as it grieves the loss of life and homes caused by the landslide above town on Aug. 25 with the dramatic rescue of two small dogs thought to have been lost a week earlier in the incident. Four-year old Alani, a small, white maltese/shih tzu and 8-year old Cassie, a miniature longhaired dachshund, did not make it out when their owners, James and Bill Montiver escaped the wreckage of their home following...
September 2, 1949 – Convicted on three out of six counts brought against him by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Frank Richardson, 72, was sentenced Wednesday by U. S. Commissioner Dale H. Hirt to thirty days in federal jail and fined a total of $750.* Richardson was apprehended on August 19 in Blind Slough by FWS Enforcement Agent L. J. Dugger. On that occasion the 45-year resident of West Petersburg was charged with fishing above the markers, using more than one net, using a gillnet, and fishing without a license or boat registration. On...
A shout out to those that support a local paper To the Editor: I would like to give a shout out to Orin Pierson and his staff for the weekly printing of the Petersburg Pilot. Also to the community of Petersburg and all who support the local newspaper. The people of Petersburg are fortunate to have a weekly newspaper. I would like to point out a few items (seriously, quite a few items) I found in last week’s newspaper. A shout out to the sale of Tides Inn, A victory article for the Trollers, who is in lead of the Alaska House primary, yesterday...
August 28 – An officer conducted extra patrols. An officer responded to a complainant and determined it was a civil issue. Petersburg Police Department (PPD) received a report that a bear was in the Haugen Drive area. PPD received a report of a hissing power line on Wrangell Avenue. Petersburg Power and Light (PP&L) were notified and responded. PPD received a report of a barking dog on South 4th Street. Scandia House was cited for failure to secure a refuse container. August 29 – Michelle Miyaki was cited for failure to secure a refuse containe...
SITKA — A woman and her dog, missing since last Wednesday, were found by searchers at 10 a.m. Saturday morning near the Katlian Bay road north of town, Sitka police said. The woman, Olivia Magni, 28, was airlifted back to town by a Coast Guard helicopter and taken to Mt. Edgecumbe Medical Center, Sitka Police Department spokesperson Serena Wild said. Her dog, unharmed, walked out. “She was found with the dog... She was just hypothermic, bumps and bruises,” Wild said, noting that Magni apparently had fallen at some point. The publicly accessible...
The 2024 Petersburg high school swim season is now underway. Coming off a season in 2023 where they made the state championships, the Vikings are looking to return to the championship meet in Anchorage, Alaska. In 2023, there were only two members of the team, now junior swimmers- Brooklyn Whitethorn and Logan Tow. This year, the Vikings have eight total members on the team. What I'm most excited about is "having relays because I have four boys and four girls now," this year is going to be way m...
On Saturday the 31st, a joint EMS/ Fire Branch drill on vehicle extrication took place at the baler facility. Using PVFD equipment and cars at the dump, the drill included vehicle stabilization, patient care and extrication to practice and prepare the participating volunteers -including new EMS/Fire recruits- for real life scenarios in Petersburg. The practice drill lasted nearly two hours in the pouring rain....
The SS Princess Alice was a steel-built passenger liner in the coastal service fleet of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Along with her sister ships, the SS Princess Adelaide, SS Princess Sophia, and SS Princess Mary, she cruised the Inside Passage along the coast of British Columbia. In 1913 the SS Princess Alice made several cruises through Southeast Alaska, with stops in Petersburg, at a reduced rate of sixty dollars round trip ($1,906 today). The 291-foot ship was built in 1911 by Swan Hunter...
Rebecca Louise Norris Weisenburger was born on February 6, 1955, in Vallejo, California. Her father, Robert Edwin Norris, was a pastor and her mother, Ann Norris was a proud homemaker and an active member of their church. Becky joined her brother Mark and sister Debie. Soon after, their brother Dave was born. When she was four, the family moved to San Diego for a short while before settling in Salinas, California, where they were surrounded by lettuce farms and looked forward to regular trips to...
Local nonprofit Humanity in Progress is partnering with Petersburg School District to launch a pantry on campus - a new stepping stone toward improving access to basic needs for students in all grades. Food and hygiene products line the shelves of the new pantry, which is located inconspicuously inside the door to an office supply room by the middle school/high school office. The idea to start a pantry was brought into conversation at a school wellness meeting just before summer, as the...
