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The unofficial results of the Petersburg 2023 Municipal Election are in. When the voting window closed at 8 o'clock Tuesday night, 1250 voters had cast their ballots. The preliminary results amounted to a strikingly close race for positions in the Borough Assembly and Public Safety Board - with a difference of five votes between assembly candidates and nine votes separating public safety board contenders. 24 absentee ballots remain uncounted, along with four questioned ballots. Borough Clerk...
Local fishing industry representatives met with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) in Petersburg last week looking for a Golden King Crab compromise. The department acknowledged frustrations voiced by the fishermen this year regarding management hindering the golden king harvest. King and Tanner Task Force (KTTF) meetings were organized to brainstorm and come to a common understanding. In the latest KTTF meeting held at the Petersburg Public Library on Sept. 28, the industry and the...
October 3, 2023 Total ballots cast - 1250 Assembly (Two 3-year terms) Rob Schwartz – 695 Rick Perkins – 593 Jeigh Stanton Gregor – 588 Jeff Meucci – 540 Hospital Board (Two 3-year terms) Jerod Cook – 891 Marlene Cushing – 798 Don Koenigs – 441 Write-in – 8 (One 1-year term) Mika Hasbrouck – 597 Jim Roberts – 519 Write-in – 6 Public Safety Advisory Board (Two 3-year terms) Mark Tuccillo – 641 Stanley Hjort – 409 Jacob Slaven – 400 Tony Vinson – 388 Russell Thynes – 324 Library Board (Three 3-...
October 5, 1923 – The Alaskan products from the date of purchase of the Territory by the United States until January 1, 1923 aggregated in value of $1,113,355,813, scoring to figures recently compiled by Seattle authorities. Products of the fisheries and allied industries during the entire period exceeded those of the mines by about $2,000,000. The value of the products of the salmon fisheries leads all other Alaskan exports for the period covered, being almost one-half billion dollars. Gold is in the second place, approximately $130,000,000 l...
WRANGELL — The Stikine Sportsmen Association is offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to the conviction of whoever illegally killed a cow moose and left the carcass to rot in the woods south of Wrangell. A hiker discovered the kill and reported it Sept. 24, said Chadd Yoder, the state wildlife trooper in Wrangell. After inspecting the carcass, he estimated it had been dead five to 10 days. The moose was “human killed,” and all of the meat left at the site, Yoder said Friday, Sept. 29, declining to share too many details about the o...
As of Oct. 3, hunters have harvested a total of 70 moose in the 2023 RM038 moose hunt, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Six of the 70 harvested were illegal, with the remaining 64 considered legal game. The total number of moose harvested at this point falls slightly short of the 77 moose harvested last year by Oct. 5 2022. Hunters have harvested 29 legal moose —and two illegal moose— on Kupreanof Island, more than any other area Fish and Game tracks. The Stikine River has seen 14 legal moose harvested so far. The hig...
September 27 - An officer conducted a security check after finding an open door on Dolphin Street. Property was found on Harbor way and returned to owner. An officer spoke with an individual about suspicious activity on Ira ll street. Ricardo Bojorquez-Felix was cited for driving with a cancelled licence on Fram and N Nordic Drive. Property was found on Vesta Drive and brought to the Petersburg Police Department (PPD). An officer observed a vehicle with lights on at 200 block N Nordic. Was unable to locate the owner, and turned lights off....
Alaska Airlines would like to improve passenger flow at its Wrangell and Petersburg airport terminals. The idea of making any changes to the buildings was put on hold during the pandemic. "We've got to find a way to improve the passenger flow in both those terminals," Scott Habberstad, the airline's managing director for Alaska, said last week. The tight space for people waiting to board after they clear TSA security screening creates a logjam on heavy traveler days that can slow down the...
Petersburg Arts Council and the Petersburg Rotary Club presented a fusion bluegrass performance in Wright Auditorium on Thursday. The visiting trio, led by internationally acclaimed cellist Mike Block, kicked off their Alaska tour in Petersburg, and were warmly appreciated by a sizable audience. The Petersburg Arts Council continues their mission to bring quality live music from around the world to Petersburg with another performance coming soon. The group Lyric and Spirit - a trio of vocalists...
In the final moments of Dave Kensinger's last Borough Assembly meeting Monday, September 18, lighthearted joking capped the session just before adjourning. It was time for assembly member comments when vice-mayor Bob Lynn spoke up to address something very important: "Well, since this is member Kensinger's last meeting, I gotta thank him for everything he's done. But the one area he hasn't really done a really good job - I think he was our representative with the Alaska Ferry System," a light la...
During the recent Hospital Board meeting Sept. 28, Petersburg Medical Center CEO Phil Hofstetter shared news of receiving the "verbal greenlight" for a $20 million treasury grant earlier that day. The verbal greenlight came from PMC's liaison with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) at the state governor's office, which is the agency that is working with the Department of the Treasury, Hoffstetter explained to the Pilot in an interview. This $20 million grant will be used to develop the... Full story
After a series of setbacks, Kari Petersen recently returned to Petersburg from Fort Collins, Colorado, where she accomplished the long-time personal goal of becoming a licensed massage therapist. In January of 2020 Petersen made what was, for her, a "massive investment" when she enrolled in the United States Career Institute's Massage Therapy training, a hybrid program designed for working students like Petersen, a single mother with a full-time job. Divided into two parts, the program required...
With high oil prices driving up state revenues, Southeast legislators say to expect a larger capital budget next year for public works projects, more money for deferred maintenance and another attempt to boost state funding for public schools. That’s assuming oil prices stay elevated as the state works its way through the fiscal year that will end on June 30 and remain high in the forecast for the next year. Lawmakers will return to work at the Capitol on Jan. 16. With oil prices last week 30% higher than assumed in this year’s spending pla...
The Petersburg High School cross country team's hard work all season long paid off big time last weekend with their incredible performance at regionals in Juneau. Their accomplishments included a second-place finish for the boys as a team and an impressive set of individual finishes for the girls. "We had a mission to place at a certain level as a team and we accomplished that," said head coach Casey Gates. "The kids all did well. They ran hard and they ran well." But before the race even...
Even after a difficult couple of weeks, Petersburg High School’s swim team duo put on a strong showing at their third meet in Ketchikan last weekend. Despite just coming out of a bout of sickness, Brooklyn Whitethorn kept up with the competition with a series of strong performances, and Logan Tow absolutely excelled, exemplifying what the duo might be capable of at their full strength. “Logan did great in all his races actually,“ said head coach Andy Carlisle. On Friday he took first in the Men's 500 Yard Freestyle with a finals time of 5:25....
In his days coaching the Petersburg High School cross country team, Klas Stolpe often urged the team to do another lap on the track or up the water tower hill, running every mile with the team, and sometimes running backwards to face his runners and yelling, "You guys are doing great, let's do one more." If a runner had any glimmer of energy left in them, coach Klas saw it and urged it out. Recently, Klas Stolpe ran 44 miles to bring awareness to prostate cancer, which his brother Jim has been...
A team in Coffman Cove helped set free two killer whales that had been trapped in Barnes Lake on northeast Prince of Wales Island since mid-August for six weeks, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The orcas presumably stranded themselves by chasing prey into the lake during a high-tide cycle. Transient, or Bigg’s, killer whales are a genetically and culturally distinct population of orcas that live in the Pacific Northwest and feed primarily on marine mammals, according to NOAA. Barnes Lake has two entrances f...
The state wants to send the Matanuska, the oldest vessel in the Alaska Marine Highway System fleet, into a shipyard for the equivalent of a full-body scan. Management wants to find out just how much of the ship's steel has rusted, and how far the rust has eaten into the thickness of the metal. The 60-year-old Matanuska has been tied up at the dock in Ketchikan since last November, waiting for the state to decide whether to repair the vessel and restore it to working order, or give up on the...
An artists' reception took place on Friday evening at Firelight Gallery and Framing for the new art show featuring the linocut, acrylic, and multimedia works of Cindi Lagoudakis and the natural dye work of Karen Dillman, pictured right....
High oil prices could provide an additional $500 for Alaskans a year from now. As part of the end-of-session budget deal put together by legislative leaders, particularly in the Senate, lawmakers in May adopted a provision in the fiscal year 2024 state spending plan that will provide a one-time “energy relief payment” next fall if state revenues exceed estimates. Global supply shortages, caused largely by production cuts in Saudi Arabia and Russia, have driven up oil prices and boosted state revenues for the first three months of the fis...
A record number of people visited Anan Wildlife Observatory this season - the largest amount since 2004, when the permit system was implemented. Of the 2,905 visitors who came through the observatory in 2023, 548 were independent or unguided and 2,357 were commercially guided. Guide companies used nearly 80% of their available permits - only 610 commercial permits were unused. The visitor count was slightly higher than the pre-pandemic peak in 2013 and much higher than the lowest recorded visito...
Industrial sewing machines, also known as cobblers or "shoe patchers," were used to repair such things as shoes, harnesses, leather bags and for furrier's work. Renowned for its mechanical ingenuity and enduring design, the Singer 29-4 was released in the 1890s. Its top-feed mechanism represents a pivotal era in the evolution of sewing machines as it enabled the work to be moved in any direction, allowing the operator to reach deep into the toe of a boot and to easily sew through layers of...
