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There are several contested races in the Oct. 7 borough election. Check out the sample ballots published in this week’s paper to review who is running and to read the ballot proposition asking voters whether Petersburg’s senior sales tax exemption should be limited to low-income seniors only. This Monday, Sept. 15, a live call-in show on the ballot proposition will be broadcast on KFSK at 12:30 p.m. The radio station’s newsroom invites those with questions on the ballot proposition to call in during the show to (907) 772-3808 or email quest...
September 11, 1925 – The Petersburg schools show a large increase in enrollment this year. The elementary school’s enrollment has grown by 27 per cent and the high school will be the largest Petersburg has ever had with an increased enrollment of nearly 100 per cent. A great many of the additional pupils are children of people who have moved to Petersburg during the summer, demonstrating that the town is growing from without. Petersburg is now one of the largest Territorial schools, surpassed in numbers only by Ketchikan, Juneau, Anchorage and...
September 4, 1925 – Probably no better concrete example of the value of the herring industry to Alaska, when handled by Alaskans, could be given than to cite the operations of the Ness Fish Company of Petersburg, which, during its 5-weeks operation here this summer expended some $12,000, practically all of which was spent here. This company put up herring for food which goes to consumers in the middle west. It made another shipment of 200 barrels on the Rogers Thursday, consigned to the Birdseth Fish Company of Fargo, North Dakota. Previous s...
Living close to the land inspires Diyet van Lieshout's songwriting for her band Diyet & The Love Soldiers, which is touring Southeast Alaska and will be stopping for a performance in Petersburg this month. In coordination with the Petersburg Arts Council, the Indigenous singer-songwriter, who draws from Southern Tutchone, Tlingit, Japanese, and Scottish roots, will bring her trio to Petersburg's Wright Auditorium on September 16 for a 90-minute show combining storytelling and music. Diyet...
The Petersburg will host its second annual live music swing dance benefit concert in the Elks Ballroom on Saturday, Sept. 27, with free Lindy Hop dance lessons being offered this month leading up to the fundraiser. The event will benefit The Petersburg Arts Council, The Market in Petersburg which will be providing mocktails, and the Petersburg High School Drama program who are providing appetizers. Matthew Wintersteen, who teaches the swing dance lessons with Elsa Wintersteen, said the Tuesday...
Petersburg's Rainforest Festival is back, after several years with dispersed year-round programming but without the customary fall festival. Taking place mostly on the weekend after Labor Day, September 3-7, the festival will once again offer an immersive celebration of local ecology, art, science, and locally harvested food. "We're really excited to have it back," says Sunny Rice, one of the festival's organizers. "While the dispersed events were lovely, it left us kind of without a Rainforest...
August 28, 1925 – The Alaska Fisherman in its August number makes some very serious charges about the waste of herring that should be investigated. It mentions the names of several persons and alleges that these dumped large quantities of herring into the bay. Herring as a food fish is as valuable, if not more so, than salmon. Its fine qualities are becoming known. It is being put up for the market in increasing quantities each year. Over $12,000 was this season expended in Petersburg by one firm alone for herring for the middle western m...
Kacey Hammer is stepping into her first official teaching role this fall as Stedman Elementary’s newest kindergarten teacher. Hammer is currently completing her Master’s degree in Elementary Education at the University of Alaska Southeast, working toward her K-8 certification. She’ll begin the school year on a provisional license while finishing her student teaching requirements in her own classroom — an arrangement that her UAS advisor encouraged. “He was like, ‘You’re ready,’” Hamm...
Newly college graduate Trinity Edwards grew up in Winnifred, Montana, population 150, and was looking for a place like Petersburg - a tight-knit community that supports its schools - as the place to start her teaching career. "I wanted a school that's going to be supported by the community," Edwards says. "Back home, our big thing was basketball too - the entire town showing up for games. It was going to be really important for me to have a community that was supportive of the school - like...
Life in small town Alaska will probably be a pretty smooth transition for Stedman Elementary's new fourth grade teacher Trevor Wilson, who grew up in Unalaska – an island community on the Aleutian chain similar in size to Petersburg -- where his father worked as a school principal. As a younger man Wilson had not wanted to follow too closely in his father's footsteps and didn't want to be a teacher. But when he went off to college at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana, he had a c...
After 16 years in special education and a recent year teaching in one of Alaska's most remote villages, Jocelynne Parker is bringing her passion for those needing extra support to Petersburg High School. Parker comes to Petersburg from Houston, Texas, by way of Nuiqsut, a village of 600 people on Alaska's North Slope, where she taught PreK through 12th grade special education for the past year. The transition from Houston to the Arctic Circle was dramatic, but Parker connected with the culture...
The elementary school's new counselor Dave Fonken comes to Petersburg from Southern Oregon. He says he found Petersburg's thriving school community and endless local outdoor recreation opportunities very appealing. "I was looking for a combination of a really healthy district with a lot of places to play," Fonken explains. "Both of those things really came together here." Fonken brings eleven years of school counseling experience to his new role. His journey in education began as a Spanish...
Alenna Nilsen has also been hired by the district this year. A former employee of the Petersburg School District who taught middle school social studies, Nilsen will be working with students needing academic interventions to prevent falling further behind and to support students needing credit recovery to meet graduation requirements. Nilsen was not available for an interview with the Pilot....
To register a new student, please stop by the office at 303 Dolphin Street by August 29. You will need to bring a current immunization record and birth certificate – a legible copy is okay. For questions, please call or text the office at 907-302-2385 or 877-526-7656, ext. 400 Mrs. Willis, Kindergarten: Padme Carr, Marit Dougher, Esmeralda Ford, Kenna Gillen, Eupha Marsden-Evenson, Ejah’Nay Mitchell, Scarlett Morrison, Mason Newman, Lydia Padgett, Grayson Tate, Ava Turcott, Maeve Uppencamp, Raiden Wagemaker, Arne Wollen Mrs. Hammer, Kin...
On Friday, David and Britni Woolley managed to go where few ever can, navigating their mini jet skiff through the labyrinth of ice and the hidden channels of the Baird glacial outwash plain to boat all the way to the terminus face of Baird Glacier....
August 21, 1925 – The Sales Inn will open to the public Saturday evening at 10 o’clock. There will be dancing and music and eats and everything. Jack Sales, who owns a chicken ranch in the new addition to Petersburg, has been working on the building for a year past. It was first two stories high, but when the framework was up a small cyclone came along and riled it up in ruins. The present building is one story high with hardwood floors for dancing and a large general dining room. There are also large dining rooms for private parties. Mr. Sales...
In Petersburg, more than 50 people gathered on Aug. 15 in front of the Federal Building downtown to protest the welcome by President Donald Trump in Anchorage of Russian President Vladimir Putin who has an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity including the abduction of thousands of Ukrainian children. Across the state, thousands more Alaskans participated in similar protests, expressing solidarity with Ukraine....
August 14, 1925 – Petersburg needs a cold storage plant. There is enough money here to build a $50,000 plant through cooperative work. The general opinion is that it would pay from the start. To build a bigger plant it would be necessary to get outside money. Outside money wants local people to put up 40 to 60 per cent of the money and assume all the risks with whatever profits there are to going to them. A large plant, moreover, would mean a high-priced expert from outside and a much heavier overhead. A smaller plant could be managed in c...
The faces in the black and white photos on display this month in the Clausen Memorial Museum tell the remarkable story of the homesteaders who settled Point Agassiz in the 1920s and 30s. A dozen children giggle on the steps on the little red schoolhouse. A prize bull watches over dairy cattle grazing in a meadow. Families harvest from large gardens. The Model T milk truck drives its route down a snowy road to the point for a milk delivery to Petersburg. "Recollections of Point Agassiz: The Life...
August 7, 1925 – There was a time when trollers in Alaskan waters lived on a crust of bread and enjoyed few luxuries and far between, but now ‘all the comforts of home’ are available for the fleet, even unto a fresh milk diet. For instance the Dairy and Grocery of Petersburg ships some 90 gallons of fresh milk on every mail boat to Port Alexander. Whether trollers do better on a ‘milk diet’ than they formerly did on ‘sourdough goulash’ or whatever they could rake together quickly on a gasboat for a meal, is something for the scientists to...
The Clausen Museum is featuring a special exhibit, "Recollections of Point Agassiz: The Life and Times of Point Agassiz Settlers" during the month of August. "The Point Agassiz News" was a regular column that ran in the Petersburg Press during the 1920s and 1930s, when nine homesteading families were building houses and barns while farming the fertile meadows between Clear Creek and Brown Cove on Point Agassiz. The following examples illustrate how the column detailed the comings and goings and...
The opportunity is growing for home builders in Petersburg to use locally milled Tongass timber in their new building projects. The sawmill on Falls Creek Road - Alaska Timber and Truss, owned in partnership by Brett Martin and Mike Duman - is offering complete home and cabin kits using locally harvested timber. The operation produces solid wall and timber frame cabin kits and larger stick-built home packages. "The cabin kits are kind of more of a traditional size ... generally speaking, under...
