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The Muskeg Maleriers are sponsoring the 41st Oktoberfest Art Share in Petersburg on Saturday, and a borough official said businesses have to charge a sales tax. The Oktoberfest craft fair Saturday at the community center is set to feature nearly 60 vendors including food booths with sushi, Thai food, frozen cookie dough and tamales, among others. Local artists will also be there, and nonprofit organizations will be selling memberships, said Sally Dwyer with the Maleriers. If a registered...
Karen Hofstad, an independent traveler from Petersburg, recently spent a month on a cruise that sailed through the Northwest Passage. Aboard the Crystal Serenity, Hofstad started a month-long expedition from Seward, Alaska, to New York. Being a history buff, Hofstad was less concerned with the landscapes -- majestic, as advertised by Crystal Cruises -- and more prepared to learn from the experts onboard and local villagers along the way. She was surprised by the Northwest Passage. It looked...
Pastors Lloyd and Yvonne Thynes were recognized for 30 years of partnership with the Faith Christian Fellowship church at a recent conference in Tucson, Arizona. Lloyd and Yvonne have pastored the Bethesda Fellowship in Petersburg since 1985. They became ordained in 1987, and for 30 years remained a partner with the Faith Christian Fellowship, one of the last in Alaska, Mr. Thynes said. "We were fortunate to be ordained through their church, but it wasn't that we came here to promote a...
October 26, 1917 – Postmaster Refling has received notice from the department that, commencing with October 1, the postoffice at Petersburg has been advanced to the third, or presidental, class. As a fourth-class office, the postmaster’s compensation has been a percentage of the cancellation. This percentage having now reached a point exceeding $1,000 per year, the postmaster will receive a salary of $1,000. There will also be an allowance for rent and cost of heating and when the new mail route is established out of Petersburg there will pro...
Preliminary harvest and value figures for the 2017 commercial salmon fishery indicate the season was a step up above the previous year's disastrous harvest. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game reported a 66.7-percent increase in exvessel value between the two years, with 224.6 million wild salmon worth around $678.8 million brought in by the state's fishing fleet. Chum salmon saw the biggest boon of the year, breaking records with 25.2 million fish, worth about $128.3 million. The haul...
The Petersburg Christmas Tree will be located outside the municipal building this year instead of next to the Scandia House hotel. The tree had for years been on Pete and Theresa Litsheims’ lot. The borough decided to change its location to the municipal building as to not inconvenience downtown parking. “We’ve relied upon the incredible generosity of Pete and Theresa Litsheim to stage the community tree,” said Karl Hagerman, the Borough Public Works Director. “The change is borne out of a desire to lessen the seasonal impact to their bus...
Glacier research To the Editor: Thank you for the article covering our research at LeConte Glacier. We wish to acknowledge the decades-long collaboration with Petersburg High School (PHS), without which our research program would not have been possible. Indeed, Paul Bowen, who initiated PHS studies of LeConte Glacier, is the true “grandfather” of LeConte research. Inevitably, inaccuracies can creep into newspaper reporting on research activities. In this case, the temperature in the fjord has not increased by 7° Celsius, rather it is wate...
It's not easy to create a five-star dish using beets, anchovies, chili powder, Cheetos and gummy bears. But that's just what the 16 chefs in this year's Chilkat Chef Competition in Haines had to accomplish recently. More than 140 people attended a cooking competition in Harriet Hall where six teams had 50 minutes to incorporate those five mystery ingredients, revealed after the timer started, with a Chilkat coho salmon. The chefs had to prepare four plates for each judge and a fifth plate to...
Oct. 18 — Jason L. Ratliff, 39, was arrested on charges of Unlawful Contact 1st Degree, Assault 4th Degree, Criminal Mischief 5th Degree, Unlawful Contact 1st Degree and Violation of Conditions. Police were notified of a small deer limping near Dolphin St. The animal was found to be ambulatory. A disturbance call came in from Wrangell. Oct. 19 — An impaired driver was reported at S. Nordic and Skylark Way. A prisoner was transported to the hospital for mental health care. Oct. 20 — A report of a person suffering a seizure at a S. Nordic Drive...
Cases appearing before Judge Magistrate Burrell: Oct. 10 — James Donald Polwarth was charged with making false statement on license or application. The court found the defendant did not meet State residency requirements and sentenced him to a $300 fine with $200 suspended plus a $10 surcharge. Probation was imposed for six months. Donald Peeler appeared on a charge of over limit pots for Dungeness crab. After entering a no contest plea, the court sentenced Peeler to a fine of $1,500, $10 surcharge and ordered forfeiture of his fish ticket. The...
A trial for William Christopher Allen scheduled for trial in November has been rescheduled to July 30, 2018. The trial is scheduled to last 10 days according to court records. Allen was the driver of a Parks and Recreation Dept. vehicle that crashed after he experienced a seizure along S. Nordic Drive on July 4, 2016. Allen is charged with two counts of Second Degree Murder, two counts of Manslaughter, Assault in the 1st Degree and Unsworn Falsification. Killed in the accident were Molly Parks, 18 and Marie Giesbrecht, 19. Superior Court Judge...
Eric Olsen, 60, ferried into Petersburg on Monday and will begin as pastor at the Lutheran Church this week. Olsen moved with his wife, Carol, from central Idaho where he was the director of a bible camp for 30 years. Before that, he was pastoring in Montana for three years. "I was in the process of looking for a congregation to serve and interviewed for a position in Montana and Petersburg," Olsen said. "And I was here in May for a few days and feel that the spirit was leading me to take a...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Owners of Juneau's condemned Bergmann Hotel have put the historic building up for sale, days after its former manager was arrested on suspicion of distributing methamphetamine. Breffni Place Properties announced on Sunday it will attempt to sell the hotel as well as two other nearby houses that have been the subject of police raids, the Juneau Empire reported . Dave D'amato, who has power of attorney for the Barrett family, which owns the hotel, said the low-income residents of the hotel were causing problems in the s...
On Oct. 22, Prince of Wales State Troopers contacted 46 year old Sean Kaer of South Thorne Bay. Investigation revealed that Kaer had violated his conditions of probation. Kaer was remanded to the Craig Jail pending arraignment....
Kupreanof Island – 48 Stikine River – 25 Mitkof Island – 13 Thomas Bay – 8 Farragut Bay – 8 Wrangell Island – 4 Kuiu Island – 4 Zarembo Island – 3 Wrangell mainland – 2 Petersburg mainland – 2 Woewodski Island – 1 Total – 117 Note: 12 of the bulls checked in this year failed to comply with local antler restrictions, following a typical rate of noncompliance seen in other years. Antler configuration percentages 2x2 brow tines – 45 bulls (38% of harvest) Spike fork – 45 (38%) Three or more brow tines – 14 (12%) Spread 50 inches or greater ...
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A test pilot from Norway has begun working with the F-35A fighter jet at Eielson Air Force Base. Norwegian Air Force pilot Eskil Amdal on Tuesday tested the jet’s ability to taxi, turn and stop on a frozen, slippery runway, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported. Norway is one of many U.S. allies purchasing the F-35A. “You can’t really compare it to anything else,” Amdal said. “It’s easy to fly and the integrated systems are truly amazing.” Six cameras are attached to the outside of the jet. Those cameras feed di...
A statewide assessment of grade schoolers taken this spring has suggested education has some room for improvement. The Performance Evaluation for Alaska’s Schools (PEAKS) exam was administered for the first time to students between third and 10th grade, testing for proficiency in mathematics, English language arts and science. Mirroring standards used in the widely-used National Assessment of Educational Progress, PEAKS provides a snapshot of student performance in relation to grade-level standards. Overall, schools across the state did not a...
WRANGELL — Cash flow problems have again been ailing Wrangell Medical Center, with the public hospital putting forward a request for $250,000 to the city on Tuesday. At its own board meeting on October 18, WMC’s chief financial officer, Doran Hammett, explained the situation. Cash on hand had by the end of September dropped to $311,069, down from $838,604 at the start of the fiscal year on July 1. It costs around $28,000 a day to operate the hospital, meaning WMC had only around 11 days’ worth available for its payroll and other expendi...
Ingvald Ask, 96, died on the October 10, 2017 at Anderson House, near his home in Shoreline Washington. He was born to Andreas and Ingrid Ask in Petersburg, Alaska in 1921. Ingvald's father arrived in Petersburg from Norway in 1913, then brought his wife, Ingrid in 1917. They lived in Petersburg until 1926 when the family moved to their farm at Point Agassiz. Ingvald grew up on the farm until WWII where he served in the Army as an engineer aboard a power barge in the Aleutians. During the war...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Members of the Alaska Senate do not plan to spend all their time in Juneau when the fourth special session this year convenes in the capital city next week. Senate President Pete Kelly told The Associated Press that after starting the session Oct. 23 in Juneau, the Senate plans to hold hearings in Anchorage on budget and tax issues. The Senate will return to Juneau when there’s something to act on, he said. House Speaker Bryce Edgmon said the House plans to conduct its work in Juneau. Edgmon said the Capitol has the inf...
Alaska’s fishing fleet of 9,400 vessels would span nearly 71 miles if lined up from bow to stern. And Alaska’s fishing industry catches and processes enough seafood each year to feed every person on the planet one serving; or a serving for each American every day for more than a month. Those are just a few of the fish facts highlighted in the annual “Economic value of Alaska’s seafood industry” report by the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute compiled by the McDowell Group. The report breaks down the numbers of fishermen, processors, species c...
