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The Petersburg borough assembly ordered Fred Triem and Karen Ellingstad to repair or demolish their property at 1011 Wrangell Avenue after a non-compliance hearing last Monday and colorful testimony given by Triem, which included a threat to engage in litigation with the borough. The building’s foundation failed in September 2009. On June 21, 2012 Leo Luczak, Community Development Director, sent notice to Ellingstad that the structure had been deemed a dangerous building. Since then, Luczak has requested a plan for how the structure would be r... Full story
Golden king crab harvests are slightly down this season but prices for the shellfish are well above average. According to Alaska Department of Fish and Game data, the current golden crab price average is $10.10 per pound. That’s more than $2 more per pound compared to last season and nearly double the previous five-year average. This season’s preliminary golden crab harvest is 510,743 pounds compared to last season’s 599,234 pounds. Joe Stratman, ADF&G Region 1 Lead Crab Biologist, said the Southeast openings and closures are based solely on fi... Full story
December 13, 1913 – In the line of fish, Alaska has brought out almost every kind and has always found a ready market for its products, Petersburg has taken part to a large extent in furnishing a great deal of the supply. Now comes the news that W.H. Royden, the well known and experienced fisherman across the bay has started, on a small scale, putting up clams. Whether Mr. Royden has discovered a new process or whether it is the quality of the clams, the fact is that they are found by connoisseurs to be delicious. It is claimed by those who hav...
The Petersburg borough assembly unanimously voted in Bob Lynn by paper ballot to serve on the assembly seat left vacant by Sue Flint after she stepped down in early November. Lynn served on the committee charged with developing the borough charter the assembly now has the task to implement as it continues with borough formation. Lynn said he was actively against borough formation initially. “But now that it’s done, it’s time to move on and see what we can do to make the charter represent all the people who live in the borough,” Lynn said. Lynn... Full story
The Petersburg Borough Assembly is moving ahead with design work to remodel the police station and the municipal building. Prior grant funds cover $65,444 of the estimated $91,560 design cost. The rest will be taken from a borough contingency fund. Both the police station and the municipal building have been on the borough's capital projects list for two years. The municipal building was recently bumped up after it received a structural analysis late last summer, which detailed load-bearing...
The Petersburg Medical Center is asking the Borough for financial assistance with capital project expenses. This has caused the Assembly members to ask questions about the operations of the hospital concerning everything from the administrator’s recently amended employment contract, hospital indebtedness, investments and the procurement of construction contracts and change orders. At their meeting last month, the assembly refused to release the city attorney’s memorandum regarding the Petersburg Borough Relationship with Petersburg Medical Cen...
Long time Petersburg resident and former school district employee Tye Leif Petersen, 45, plead not guilty during an arraignment held in U.S. District Court on three charges involving child pornography. Petersen was arrested late October after federal investigators and local police conducted a search warrant of his home and electronic devices. Investigators found email attachments as well as CDs containing images and videos of young children engaged in sexually explicit behaviors. According to an FBI affidavit, last July an investigator...
November 27 A caller reported an individual screaming profanities. A caller reported a vehicle left in the middle of the parking lot last night on South Nordic and Dock Street. Police received report of the caller’s neighbor’s door being ajar when no one should be there. A caller reported an individual in an area where they’re not supposed to be. An officer issued a citation to Brittany L. Martin, 20, for No Proof of Insurance. November 28 A caller ranted and called out ‘help me, help me.” Officer conducted a welfare check. A caller reported...
November 27 Beth Moreland appeared before Magistrate Judge Burrell for a change of plea hearing. Moreland entered a guilty plea on the charge of Driving Under the Influence. The court sentenced the defendant to 45 days in jail with 42 days suspended, a $1500 fine, $455 in surcharges, one-year probation and a 90 days license revocation among other conditions. December 4 Anthony Naples appeared before Magistrate Judge Burrell during a non-jury trial on a charge of employing an unlicensed crewman. The court found the defendant guilty. The trooper...
Eight Petersburg Viking wrestlers placed at the Pilot Invitational in Juneau the weekend before last. DJ Toyomura, John Brooks and Billy Ware took first place in their respective weight classes. Buddy Stelmach and Isaiah May took second. Logan Turcott and Matt Gudel took third. Bret Martinsen took fourth. Petersburg placed second overall in the tournament. "The team really pulled together," said assistant coach Ed May. "We're, at this point, hitting our stride. Hopefully we'll be getting near...
The Petersburg Borough Assembly released to the public a redacted memorandum regarding some assembly member concerns and questions about Petersburg Medical Clinic policy making and its relationship to the borough. The memo was written by James Brennan, borough attorney, in response to those questions and concerns and was initially taken from public record until John Hoag, assembly member, voiced his concern over the action during a November 25 meeting. “I am troubled that the memorandum we received from our attorney regarding the Petersburg M...
Petersburg borough manager Steve Giesbrecht reported the following during its November 25 meeting: Work continues on the new electric system for the North Harbor. Peak usage on the Southeast Alaska Power Agency system is significant with the cold weather. Wrangell now has a system peak equal to Petersburg’s. Chief Swihart will attend the Executive Development Conference December 3-6 in Anchorage. The seminar will include various trainings as well as meetings for Alaska Police Standards Council, Alaska Association of Chiefs of Police. Jenna D...
Duke and Kate Klein and Rick and Sue Braun, announce the engagement of their children, Shawna Noelle Klein and Ian Fraser Braun. The couple are graduates of Northern Arizona University, Shawna with a BS in Secondary English Education and Ian with a BS in Civil Engineering. Shawna is currently employed as an English teacher at Coconino High School and Ian is employed as a civil engineer and land surveyor for C.D.E. Inc., in Flagstaff, Ariz. The wedding will take place in June in...
WRANGELL — The borough assembly voted 5-0 Tuesday night on a draft resolution which — if approved next week — could begin the process of putting Tyee Lake operations in the hands of the Southeast Alaska Power Agency. Assembly members instructed Borough manager Jeff Jabusch to look through and fine-tune the resolution, which would empower him to enter into negotiations on a formal written offer for the SEAPA transfer “which essentially accepts the terms of the August 19, 2013 memo from the SEAPA CEO to the TBPA President,” the measure reads. Th...
Will Alaska’s halibut catches be cut again next year? That’s the big question as the industry braces for the International Pacific Halibut Commission’s interim meeting this week in Seattle. By all accounts, there appear to be lots of halibut in Alaska waters, but their unusually slow growth rates have forced a downward press on catches for nearly a decade. The Alaska catch total this year was about 22 million pounds. Also up for review – 22 fishermen from remote communities in the mid-Aleutians (4A) are requesting an increase in their halibut...
Ronald Divers Watson, 80 of Manson Washington died November 23rd after a year of poor health. Ron started life in Everett, Washington. In his youth, he delivered papers for the Seatle Post Intelligencer. During His spare time, he learned to swim in the Everett dock area and also became an excellent young baseball player. Ron served in the United States Air force in Europe. Upon his discharge, Ron, with his brother Richard, went to work for Scott Paper Company on tugboats. Later, he worked in... Full story
Kyle Clayton won first place in the 54th annual William Randolph Hearst Journalism Awards Program, often called the “Pulitzer Prize of College Journalism.” Clayton’s article is a first person account of his time spent as a medic in the army and Iraq and his transition into life as a college student. The article, ‘The only way to hold on’, was published in the Indiana Daily Student last summer just before he moved to Alaska and began working for the Pilot. A record 148 entries were entered into this year’s awards program, in which 105 undergr... Full story
