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A story in last week’s paper said a nursing program was the first of its kind in Petersburg. There was actually a similar program over a decade ago coordinated through Weber State University, but it was a one-time opportunity. Due to a production error, that was not reflected in the article. The site coordinator, Nichole Mattingly, also noted that Rosa Mergenthal is another instructor currently leading the program in Petersburg....
Delays to line maintenance prompted by a public employee strike in Wrangell this June will cost a regional power utility an extra $103,000. Southeast Alaska Power Agency (SEAPA) chief executive Trey Acteson presented board members with a change order for the project, which would among other maintenance tasks replace marker balls along the transmission lines connecting Tyee Lake to the grid. Work had been set to start the latter half of June, during which time Wrangell would have had to run on its diesel backups. But an unrelated strike by two...
Lynn Ewing and Liv Husvik-Perschon of Petersburg and Robin and Gary Paul of Juneau, announce the wedding and reception of Sonja Ewing and Carson Paul. The couple are residents of Petersburg with Ewing working at Petersburg Medical Center and Paul working at Rocky's Marine. The wedding will take place at the Petersburg Lutheran Church on Saturday, September 9, with a reception to follow at the Sons of Norway Hall....
The Petersburg Cross Country teams placed at the top of the leader boards in the Klawock Invitational on Saturday. The women's team took first place in Klawock, routing the competition by nearly 30 points. The men's team took second place after losing by three points to Ketchikan. Sophomore Kole Sperl led the men's team by taking third place overall, notching a personal record of 18 minutes 42 seconds in the 3.1-mile race. Other personal records come from freshman Brennan Skeek, who placed...
The body of 24-year-old Jase Payne was found late Monday near a dock at Rocky Point Resort in Petersburg, Alaska ending what had been a four-hour search by family members, state troopers and local police. Alaska Wildlife Troopers were notified at 6:52 p.m. on Monday that Payne was missing, last seen on the dock of Rocky Point Resort about 10 miles south of town. “Family members had been conducting hasty searches of the nearby Wrangell Narrows with no results,” wrote a press release. “[A] Petersburg Alaska Wildlife Trooper and Petersburg Polic... Full story
