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For the first time since 2018, the PHS girls' cross country team are the Region V Champions for Division III. Last year – despite a few very strong finishes including a second place overall finish from Maria Toth – the girls' team was unable to place as a team because of having too few runners, which made this year's championship win that much sweeter. This time around Maria Toth claimed first place in the race. And along with her, all of Petersburg's girls finished in the top ten. With a com...
The preliminary results of the Petersburg 2024 Municipal Election are in. When the voting window closed Tuesday evening, 1,051 voters had cast their ballot. There are outstanding ballots that will be counted when the election results are certified this Friday. Those votes could potentially change the outcome for Proposition 2 and one contested Library Board seat. Among the five candidates who ran for the two three-year terms on the borough assembly, incumbent Bob Lynn received the most votes...
The EMS branch of Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department is trying out a new response system that no longer holds EMS responders to a fixed schedule. Emergency Services Director Aaron Hankins told the Pilot that it was difficult to get volunteers to commit and sign up for consistent 12-hour shifts; he said there was conversation about changing the shift schedule to more than two shifts in a day, but there was not a consensus among the group to agree on a change. Ultimately, Hankins said EMS...
October 3, 1924 – Some of the largest and the most vicious brown bear in Alaska are found on Admiralty Island. It was one of these ferocious denizens of this wilderness with which Mrs. Flora Tate, of the Tate & Thomas Boarding House, came face to face while on a recent hunting trip on that island. Mrs. Tate, with but a few yards separating her from the bear, brought her gun into position, but her mother begged her not to shoot and so, bruin still lives to roam his native forests and mountains along with many others of his kind which keep p...
Halfway through the RM038 moose hunt, the harvest numbers show 64 moose harvested in the management area so far, six of them illegally. ADF&G managers describe the number as approximately consistent with this point in the season last year. Last year's total harvest was an all-time high at 141 moose. With 54 of them taken on Kupreanof Island. Managers expect the rate of harvest to tick up somewhat as the rut, or peak mating season, is reportedly beginning. Rutting bulls are noticeably more...
Whichever side wins the national election Nov. 5 needs to think about why they did not get a larger share of the vote. Not that they ever really expected to win over the hearts, minds and ballots of 60% of voters. The honest reality is that most candidates would accept 51% as a clear victory in this divisive world. OK, maybe they’re prefer 52%. But they’ll happily declare a mandate on the thinnest of margins. Gloating is ugly. It makes sore losers out of disappointed losers. Even worse, many of those sore losers are increasingly embracing anger...
September 25 – An officer conducted extra patrols. A report of theft was taken by an officer. An officer provided lockout assistance in the South Harbor parking lot. The Petersburg Police Department (PPD) received a report of a dog chasing a female at the intersection of 7th and Excel Streets. The responding officer was unable to locate a dog matching the description given. An officer assisted Emergency Medical Services (EMS) with a fall on Mitkof Highway. An officer responded to a report of an abandoned vehicle on Hungerford Hill Road. PPD rec...
Petersburg High School's volleyball team lost their first games of the season, falling to the Ketchikan Kings in games one and two this past week. The Vikings lost the first set of game one 25-13, 25-17 in the second set, and 25-19 in the third set on Thursday, Sept. 26, in Ketchikan. The Vikings had just 18 total kills on 43 attempts (41.8%) in total through both nights. "We struggled offensively, we could not put a ball away from our hitters – we didn't attack well," Head Coach Jaime Cabral s...
Voters in Alaska's capital city have rejected a resident-written ballot proposition that would have banned large cruise ships on Saturdays and the Fourth of July.Tuesday was municipal election day for most of Alaska's cities and boroughs, and in preliminary results in Juneau, about 60% of participating voters sided against the "ship-free Saturdays" initiative. Some ballots have yet to be counted but are not expected to change the result. Elsewhere across the state, municipal elections saw... Full story
Wikan Enterprises, Inc. is still on the market. Owners John and Sheri Wikan plan to retire on Oct. 18, John's 75th birthday. The Wikans are looking for a successor to continue their diesel marine engine parts and repair shop that has operated out of Petersburg for over three decades. "Our intention and goal with the sale is to find somebody that can continue the business so that our fishermen have service. That's what we want," Sheri told the Pilot. "But with that being said, if we can't find so... Full story
Petersburg's public safety advisory board wants the state of Alaska to initiate a safety standard for motorized rental boats. At a meeting in mid September, board members said lodges near town let tourists use skiffs without making sure they know what they're doing. Vice Chair Mark Tucillo said he doesn't want people to die because they don't know how to operate a boat. "I think it's the right thing to do," he said. "To say 'You should have training before you get in a watercraft and go off on...
WRANGELL — Though it was important to pinpoint the exact location and extent of damage to the community’s wastewater outfall pipeline into Zimovia Strait, officials also discovered that the 12-inch plastic pipe and the seabed around it have become home to hundreds of sea cucumbers. “Over the years and years, wildlife has figured it out,” Tom Wetor, the borough’s Public Works director, said Sept. 26. Sea cucumbers, a bottom-dwelling invertebrate, proliferate around the nutrient-rich waters near the diffuser end of the outfall line, he said. “I...
The Petersburg Arts Council's Moving Music Concert Series invited the community to join them last Saturday for a swing dance in the ballroom upstairs at the Elks Lodge. Matthew Wintersteen on the electric bass guitar and Canek Sosa on the drums kept the beat for a procession of local bands, including, pictured above, Nicole and Alec McMurren. Prior to the live music, an hour of dance instruction was provided for those interested in trying out Lindy Hop swing dance moves. Elsa Wintersteen,...
Last Thursday, families were encouraged to walk or bike to school for Roll and Stroll Day. The SHARE Coalition was on hand to distribute their first batch of free, high-quality bike and multi-sport helmets to anyone who needed one. The volunteers also demonstrated how to properly fit and wear the helmets. Any kids who were noticed by the crossing guards as not having a helmet were connected with the SHARE volunteers. A total of 22 helmets were given out that morning, and more helmets are on the...
Introduced in the summer of 1911, the VV-IX, or Victrola the Ninth, was the Victor Talking Machine Company's premier tabletop phonograph model with a closable lid. It featured a well-crafted cabinet, nickel-plated hardware, a two-spring motor, and Victor's Exhibition Soundbox. Sales were strong from the start and the IX, whose production lasted for more than thirteen years, became Victor's fourth best-selling model of all time. This model was spring-driven. The user would turn the crank several...
Opponents of the planned Donlin Gold mine in Western Alaska won a key victory on Monday when a federal judge ruled that regulators who granted a permit needed to build the project failed to properly consider the risks of a catastrophic release of mine waste. U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason agreed with tribal government plaintiffs that argued the environmental study that led to federal permitting for the Donlin mine illegally omitted analysis of the impacts of a major tailings dam failure. “I think it’s a major victory for the tri...
An array of businesses, fishing companies and investors are objecting to a pending proposal to sell the assets of a struggling Alaska seafood company to Rodger May — one of the original investors in the company before it entered a bankruptcy-like process called receivership. The financial firm that’s overseeing Peter Pan Seafood’s receivership proposed last week to sell the company’s three processing plants and an array of other assets to May, an entrepreneur and fish trader who narrowly outbid another processing company, Silver Bay Seafood...
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