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Petersburg High School Choir students Frances Abbott and Stephanie Pfundt attended the National Association of Music Educator's All National Honors Choir in Nashville, Tenn. The girls auditioned for the honors choir last spring and were notified of their acceptance in July. Pfundt received the good news in an email from her music teacher Matthew Lenhard. "I was fishing on my dad's boat," Pfundt said. "It was nine o'clock at night and I was up in the wheelhouse and I started screaming. All the... Full story
Five swimmers represented Petersburg at the State Championship swim meet last weekend in Anchorage, and after getting mostly personal best times in preliminaries on Friday, and then even better times in the finals, the boys ended up placing 5th out of 19 schools with many individual achievements, including Abel Aulbach defending his state title in the 100-yard Freestyle event. Service's Ezra Corwin-Hogue came in 7 hundredths of a second faster than Aulbach in the prelims, but the next day, when... Full story
Petersburg School District kids will likely eat new and fresher foods at school if the district receives funding from the state to remodel the school’s kitchen. Carlee Wells, Director of Child Nutrition for PSD, said she’s been pushing to renovate the kitchen since she started the job in 2011. Wells and head cook Carol Larson prepare breakfast and lunch for around 200 hungry students and employees every day. The kitchen, located in the elementary school, shares its space with the cafeteria and...
November 15, 1913 – Agent W.E. Nowell, of the Alaska Steamship company, states that he was successful in his application for a change in the steamer schedule that would afford a better service to Juneau and Ketchikan. He made the trip out for the purpose of consulting the officials of his company on this matter and returned on the last trip of the Jefferson. Under the new plan all of southeastern Alaska will be benefited by a reduced time schedule as far north as Juneau. The Jefferson is to go on a 10-day schedule with Juneau as the northern t...
Petersburg School District students and staff hosted a Veteran's Day Assembly in the Wright Auditorium Monday morning. Elementary and middle school students sang songs and played instruments for more than 15 Petersburg veterans and other assembly attendees. After the music those attending the event thanked and shook the hands of the veterans, one of whom served during WW2. Petersburg high school and middle school students attended and watched a video presentation detailing the lives and...
Kevin Colson, Wildlife Biologist with the University of Alaska Fairbanks, gave a presentation in the public library conference room Tuesday night about moose populations and their long journey to Southeast Alaska. To help tell the story, Colson for the past year and a half has worked with Petersburg high school teacher Joni Johnson and her science students as they collect and catalogue moose DNA samples. Before moose made their way to Southeast, a very recent occurrence that didn’t happen until the early 1900s, they lived in the boreal f...
Blue skies greeted more than 30 runners who participated in this year's Turkey Time 5K race. Winners of last Saturday's event guessed closest to their finish time rather than finished the fastest. Runners weren't allowed to carry watches, phones or any device that would allow them to guess or tell the time. The finishing timer also faced away from the runners and they crossed the finish line under the basketball court outside of the community gym. Eleven runners guessed within a minute of their...
Veteran's Day assembly To the Editor: I would like to thank all of the veterans who arrived at school this afternoon (11/11/13) for the Veteran's Day assembly. It means a lot to the school staff as well as all of the Petersburg students to have a face to honor in their own town. When the veterans show up they are not only allowing us to honor them, but they are also promoting a healthy respect towards the military for both those who wish to serve and those who don't. If there are more vets in Petersburg who were not able to participate in this...
The Petersburg Rotary Club is welcoming donations to their Shelter Box program that will provide relief to Philippine residents hit by Typhoon Haiyan. 224 Shelter Boxes are currently en route to Cebu, Philippines and 504 Shelter Box Tents arrived in Manila recently for distribution to the Philippines disaster areas as soon as the freight clears customs. Rotarian Dave Berg said the Shelter Box program provides immediate relief for residents of disaster stricken areas because the box is packed with a large, heavy-duty tent sufficient for a large...
November 7 A caller spoke with officers concerning an individual’s welfare. Police issued Karsten W. Olsen a speeding citation. A caller reported an individual backing up into their parked vehicle. November 8 A caller reported a young male in a city flowerbed. Police arrested Roderick Vasquez, 21, on charges of Misconduct Involving a Controlled Substance in the 6th degree. A caller reported possible fraud on his credit card associated with online charges. An officer responded to report of a physical altercation. Police arrested Palmer T...
The Vikings volleyball squad nearly beat the Sitka squad in what head coach Jaime Cabral described as a "heart wrenching" match last weekend during the regional double elimination tournament in Sitka. Sitka beat the Vikings in the first round but lost to Mount Edgecumbe in its next game. Sitka faced Petersburg again in an elimination game where the Vikings took the first two matches. "The girls came out on fire. Everything was working," Cabral said. "Passing was phenomenal." But Sitka hit back a...
The Petersburg Planning Commission unanimously approved to send a request to the borough assembly to update the current comprehensive plan. A comprehensive plan is a guide to how to develop the community and land within the municipality including things such as utilities, recreation and housing. The plan was last updated in 2001 and updating it is essential to the requirements of borough formation. “We’re giving an overview of the whole process that’s going to take a very long and involved time,” commission chair Susan Thomason said. Officia...
JUNEAU (AP) — A former president and CEO of Sealaska Corp. was charged with felony theft, accused of embezzling funds from two nonprofit organizations run by an Alaska Native civil rights group in Juneau. Robert W. Loescher is accused of stealing $21,500 from the bank accounts of a legal defense fund to protect subsistence rights and another entity focusing on security of traditional food resources. Loescher could not be reached Monday. It's unclear if he has an attorney. Loescher, 66, chaired both the Alaska Subsistence Defense Fund and the A...
ANCHORAGE (AP) — Two environmental groups say the federal government is taking too long to decide whether a subspecies of gray wolf found in southeast Alaska old-growth forests should be considered for endangered species protection. In a letter Tuesday, the Center for Biological Diversity and Greenpeace urged the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to decide whether additional protections are needed for Alexander Archipelago wolves, which are found on Prince of Wales Island and are genetically distinct from other wolves in the Tongass National F...
Keeping tabs on how many and what kinds of fish are coming over the rails is a key tool in Alaska’s highly successful fishery management programs. For nearly four decades, that has been the job of fishery observers who track everything that is hauled aboard trawlers, crabbers and most other fishing vessels 50 feet and up. Starting this year and for the first time ever, observers were placed aboard smaller boats as well as Alaska’s hook and line fleet to start getting information about “removals” in that gear group’s fisheries. The primary f...
Local writer Edward May is self-publishing his new book "Sourdough Starter: The Mother Sponge." The book is a collection of 27 profiles taken from audio interviews May transcribed and condensed for the Anchorage Daily News between 2006 and 2008. The stories detail the experiences of Alaskans who had lived in the territory before it became a state. May paints the lives of Tlingit fishermen, loggers, trappers and transplants across his pages. "That's the kind of interview I specialize in," May...
