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Alaska State Wildlife Trooper Cody Lister is investigating a vehicle fire from the weekend, the second suspicious one in about a week's time. The first occurred sometime between June 12 and June 16 at Man Made Hole Recreation Area, where a vault toilet was torched, Recreation and Wilderness Manager Brad Hunter said. It's being investigated by the Petersburg Park Ranger District. The second fire, also "suspicious in nature," Assistant Fire Chief Dave Berg said, occurred Sunday night, around 11:30...
Two men were rescued south of Petersburg in Sumner Strait last week after the boat they were in capsized. Alaska Wildlife Troopers spokesperson Megan Peters said police received the call at 3:29 p.m. on Thursday, June 4. Joseph Hedlund, 57, of Petersburg, and Richard Shepson, 61, of Tacoma, Wash., were pulled from the water by troopers in the patrol vessel Moen, U.S. Forest Service and National Marine Fisheries Service personnel. Peters said the men were fishing when their boat capsized and they signaled for help. Neither were wearing their...
Alaskans will have to wait until fall to learn if salmon habitat prevails over a coal mine proposed at Upper Cook Inlet. A decision due earlier this month by the state Department of Natural Resources has been delayed until after a public hearing later this summer, said Ed Fogels, DNR Deputy Commissioner. At issue is competing water rights claims filed in 2009 by the Chuitna Citizens Coalition and PacRim Coal of Delaware and Texas. The Coalition wants to protect spawning tributaries of the salmon-rich Chuitna River, dubbed the Kenai of the West...
WRANGELL — The Wrangell area will be without an Alaska Wildlife Trooper for the foreseeable future, according to the state agency’s Juneau office. The vacancy was created by the transfer of Trooper Scott Bjork to the Juneau area earlier this month. Citing budgetary constraints, head of Southeast Detachment Lieutenant Jon Streifel confirmed Monday the post will remain unfilled until the department knows what the upcoming budget will look like. “It’s a new transition,” he said. As the new legislative session convenes this week in Juneau, s...
January 8 Robert Brooks Sr. appeared before Magistrate Judge Desiree Burrell for a Minor Offense Trial. The defendant was charged with Discharge of Other Weapons. After hearing testimony the court found that the city met its burden of proving the charge and found the defendant guilty of the offense. Brooks was sentenced to pay a $250 fine with $250 suspended and one year of probation. Magistrate Judge Desiree Burrell presided over an arraignment for Ralph Strickland. The defendant is charged with Assault in the 4th Degree, Criminal Trespass in...
Crystal Lake Hatchery Manager Loren Thompson pled not guilty on Nov. 13 to a charge of Littering over Five Pounds. Thompson was cited for the minor violation by Alaska Wildlife Trooper Cody Litster for dumping some 400 pounds of coho on the tide flats at Olsen’s Log Dump. Bill Gass, production manager for Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association (SSRAA) which operates the Crystal Lake facility, said he didn’t have an official comment on the case itself but explained that the fish dumped at the site were brood stock coho salmon who...
A thorough discussion of public services under the Borough charter was had at Monday's regular Assembly meeting. Member John Havrilek broached the matter at the last meeting and asked for a public comment period wherein discussion and clarification of services for outlying areas would be addressed. Since then, Borough Manager Steve Giesbrecht worked with department heads to assemble a matrix outlining services offered before and after Borough formation. According to that matrix, no services have been discontinued due to Borough formation. That'...
January Petersburg residents contributed a record amount to the Salvation Army Christmas program last year-$15,618.17-more than $9,700 than the year before. Jan. 4, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck 58 miles west of Craig and 203 miles south of Juneau prompting a tsunami warning across Southeast. Petersburg Police Chief Jim Agner and Sergeant Heidi Agner announced their intentions to retire. Officer Ben King joined the Petersburg Police Department. The Petersburg Borough Assembly members were... Full story
Alaska Wildlife Trooper Cody Litster is looking for information from the public on an unsalvaged deer found around 20 yards off the road near Woodpecker Road. A concerned hunter reported the animal to Litster. The Trooper said the deer appears to have been shot and left to die without harvesting any meat from the animal. “This was a fairly nice buck and it was senselessly wasted,” Lister said. “This one is an absolute loss.” Litster said hunters sometimes shoot a deer and it runs away and is unable to be tracked. “Those instances are very rare...
June 21, 1913 – From far Alabama: The Herald is in receipt of a newspaper from the far away city of Petersburg, Alaska. This paper was found in our mail of Wednesday and presents quite a neat appearance. It is a four page, five column folio, printed on a good quality of paper and shows a good business, judging from the amount of advertising that appear in its columns. The name of the paper is “The Progressive.” It is published weekly and one very noticeable feature about it is the subscription price, which is $2.50 per anum, payable in advan...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A 64-year-old Fairbanks man was mauled to death by a bear at a remote lake in Alaska's interior, authorities said Friday. The man and a family member were at a cabin at George Lake, about 110 miles southeast of Fairbanks, when the attack occurred Thursday evening. The family member sought shelter inside the cabin and called authorities, Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters said. A troopers helicopter dispatched from Fairbanks was unable to land in the terrain, but a Pavehawk helicopter from Eielson Air Force B...
Alaska Wildlife Trooper, Cody Litster was recently awarded Alaska Wildlife Trooper of the Year and “A” Detachment Trooper of the Year at a ceremony in Anchorage. Out of 71 wildlife troopers in the state, Litster was at the top. “This just means that I did my job in 2012,” Litster said. “I am honored that I was chosen.” Litster has been the lone trooper for Petersburg for the last three and a half years and plans to remain here. “There is another trooper in Wrangell and the next closest one i...
February 26 Manuel Aceveda, 65, of Kake plead guilty to one count of taking game without proper license and tags. Aceveda was fined $500 with $200 suspended, ordered to pay restitution to the State of Alaska of $1,000, loss of hunting privileges for one year, probation for one year and court fees of $110. The plea is the result of a Klawock Alaska Wildlife Trooper Investigation, which showed Aceveda received a registration moose permit when we was ineligible, and then harvested a moose and possessed it illegally. John Welsh, 62, of Sitka,...
January 26, 1983 - Leroy Fairbanks of Petersburg will be among twenty five recruit Alaska State Troopers and fish and wildlife protection officers that will begin 13 weeks of intensive training this month at the Department of Public Safety Academy in Sitka. Fairbanks is a recruit trooper. They comprise the members of the 37th Recruit Academy for the Department of Public Safety. During the next 13 weeks the recruits will be engaged in a rigorous training program involving 8 – 10 hours of training daily, six days a week. This will include both p...
ANCHORAGE (AP) — Human remains found ravaged by one or more brown bears on a southeast Alaska island are likely from a Sitka man overdue on a boating trip, Sitka police said Monday. Police confirmed the death Sunday and said remains found on Chichagof Island were likely that of Tomas Puerta, 54, who left Sitka in a skiff Thursday on his way to a forestry job site near Peril Strait. The death was first reported by KCAW-FM. Sitka is a community of about 9,000 on Baranof Island. Admiralty, Baranof, and Chichagof islands together are known as the ...
Alaska Wildlife Troopers arrested Jay Thomassen, of Seward, on Saturday, March 17, for multiple alleged violations pertaining to the Commercial Golden King Crab fishery in Registration Area A. According to Trooper Cody Litster, Thomassen was charged with commercial fishing in closed waters, having undersized king crab, possession of illegal crab, and providing false statements on a logbook. The catch, estimated to be worth $88,622 was seized by troopers. An arraignment is scheduled for April 18, in District Court in Petersburg. “This is the l...
