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Growing up in Petersburg, Heather Conn remembers holding weekend school sessions inside a little schoolhouse her father built along the side of their home on Tango Street, with her brothers and kids from the neighborhood in attendance. Conn wanted to be a school teacher her whole life and had even considered aiming for superintendent at some point. She achieved a dream in 2019 when Conn became the school principal at Petersburg's Rae C. Stedman Elementary school, after years in special and...
Wearing Xtratuf boots and a black spiderweb dress, Dawsyn Jabusch smiles through rainbow face paint -complete with colorful glitter whiskers and brows- as she holds up a pumpkin during a trip to the Anchor Properties pumpkin patch this spooky season for some shenanigans on Friday, October 4....
Three Petersburg High School students were recently selected to the All-State Music Festival Ensemble. Petersburg senior Eleanor Kandoll and juniors Canek Sosa and Heidi Brantuas were selected to represent Alaska at the Music Festival from Nov. 21-23, in Anchorage. Kandoll was selected for the Clarinet section. "Honestly, I was mostly relieved because I've been an All-State twice before, I would've been very disappointed if I hadn't been [selected]," Kandoll said. "It's a wonderful experience -...
Upgrades are in the works for a few amenities at Sandy Beach recreational area, including a year-round restroom, parking improvements, and the ongoing extension work on City Creek Trail. Sandy Beach is a place for all sorts of recreational happenings. The beachfront park and picnic area includes a few shelters, benches, firepits, barbecues, a playground, as well as a totem pole and four informational signs at the plaza installed this summer. Visitors also park at the Sandy Beach area to access...
October 17, 1924 – Local citizens have been busy with a view of getting a cold storage plant located at Petersburg. They have canvassed the situation with a view of getting signers on a prospectus and they report that the response was very encouraging. They also have been getting data on how many fish buyers might be secured to patronize a local plant, and estimates and costs for machinery and running the same. As soon as all the data will have been secured, it is the intention to call a general meeting for additional views of all of those i...
Petersburg School District has secured a total of $973,816 in grant awards this fiscal year, so far. The special revenue includes four new grants, and more funding is "definitely" anticipated in addition to the almost million dollars already awarded to the district. The district faces ongoing challenges due to inadequate state funding, including budget cuts for this academic year. PSD has had to get creative with pursuing grants, an undertaking that requires "a lot of extra work on our staff..."...
First Bank's Petersburg branch was filled with folks Friday evening, joining personnel from Ketchikan and Wrangell in celebrating the bank's 100th anniversary over drinks, hors d'oeuvres and raffle prizes....
So, I’ve been thinking To the Editor: Small or large, nearly every entity (private business, government, non-profit, social club, volunteer organization, etc) is potentially susceptible to toxic personalities that create a hostile environment. When that happens, it is not always apparent to those at the top of the leadership chain, especially in a large multi-departmental entity. When the hostile environment is being created by someone in a supervisory position, a quandary is created for the subordinates: confront the behavior and hope it g...
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Anthony Petit gets into position to fix a red marker at the mouth of Wrangell Narrows on Oct. 14, 2024. The navigational buoy (62) had drifted out of position weeks ago, reportedly near the shore of Kupreanof Island. Coast Guard crew aboard the Ketchikan-based, 175-foot keeper-class coastal buoy tender retrieved the large, heavy red marker and reinstalled it back in the buoy's proper location at the mouth of the narrows, seen from the northern shore of Mitkof Island...
October 9 – The Petersburg Police Department (PPD) received a post-event noise complaint from Ira II Street. An officer contacted an individual on Hogue Alley to provide information. An officer responded to a reported disturbance on Birch Street and determined it was unfounded. October 10 – An officer conducted a welfare check on Chief John Lott Street. An officer responded to a post-incident report of a bear accessing garbage on Vesta Street. An officer conducted a welfare check on South 2nd Street. The PPD is investigating a report of ani...
A two-hour debate on Alaska fisheries issues turned contentious in its final moments as Republican U.S. House candidate Nick Begich criticized incumbent Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola over an ad stating that a Begich victory would mean “our fish are gone.” The exchange was the lone heated issue between the two frontrunners in Alaska’s U.S. House election, which will decide one of only a few tossup races in the 435-seat House of Representatives. With the House closely divided between Republicans and Democrats, the winner of Alaska’s race is like... Full story
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced this month that it finished revamping its scientific documentation for state-managed salmon fisheries in Southeast Alaska after a U.S. District Court judge ruled in May of 2023 that the 2019 authorization that NOAA created for the regional salmon fisheries did not comply with the National Environmental Policy Act process, nor the Endangered Species Act. NOAA’s new documentation responds to a 2020 lawsuit by the Seattle-based nonprofit Wild Fish Conservancy. WFC sued federal f...
Coming off a season in 2023 in which Petersburg High School's wrestling team sent four competitors to state, the Vikings will look to get back there again, with seniors Kaden Duke, Angus Olsen and Marcus Anderson leading the way. Having wrestled for 12 years now, Duke knows what he needs to do to achieve his goal to improve on his 2-2 finish at state last year. "I've accumulated a lot of knowledge of how to properly diet – I'm hoping this year I can at least win a regional championship – my seco...
WRANGELL – The borough wants a data center to plug into Wrangell. Better yet, it could even move into the unused formal hospital property. Data centers are large hosting sites for multiple servers that provide computing power and storage for cloud-based service providers. While at Southeast Conference, held in Ketchikan last month, borough representatives spoke with Sam Enoka, founder and CEO of Greensparc — a San Francisco-based technology company that specializes in setting up modular, small-scale data centers for cloud computing. Enoka gre...
This cream colored wedding dress of fine silk and lace was donated to the museum by Camille Marifern. The gown consists of three pieces: the blouse, with its high neck collar and elbow length sleeves, has a wide lace ruffle across the bodice and back; the floor length skirt features alternating bands of silk and lace; and a silk cumberbund with rosettes center and back, completes the bridal attire. Ragnhild Tjomsland was Knut Thompson's sister. She wore this dress in 1908 when she married Louis...
Jeffrey Wayne Roth was born on May 16, 1954, in Albany, Oregon, to John and Judith (McLane) Roth as the second of their four children. Jeff's early years were spent in Albany, until his family moved to Scio, Oregon, to work the family farm. Jeff shared endless stories about life on the farm and trying to keep up with his older brother John. In addition to risky mischief, Jeff worked hard and enjoyed Sunday dinners with his grandparents, aunts, uncles, and many cousins. In 1974, Jeff met his... Full story
Travis Kukull receives a lot of messages from friends, family, and randos up and down the Upper Lynn Canal every year around this time. “People text me pictures of things all the time.” They take pictures of fungi and send them to Kukull’s phone to see if they’re edible. But Kukull is the first to admit he doesn’t know everything and that he’s not a scientist. “I’m just a chef, but I am a mushroom nerd,” he said. It’s true – Kukull has been a chef for 25 years. Right now, he owns Malo Nista Catering in Haines. But his fungal fascination reigns...
