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A return trip to Petersburg last week on Sunrise Aviation granted a view out the window of LeConte Bay and the terminus of the LeConte Glacier shimmering in the silver light of spring....
18 – There are no issues in the archive until May 19, 1926. Thank you for your patience. April 13, 1951 – Adolph Mathisen’s new boat, the Harmony, is a beautiful addition to the Petersburg halibut fleet. The Harmony is a 48.9 foot boat with a 14.7 foot beam. It was originally built for Gundar Iverson at Port Angeles and Mathisen powered it with a General Motors diesel. It has 26-ton net capacity, galley above deck and is equipped for both halibut fishing and seining. Mathisen went south just before Thanksgiving and has been working most...
Petersburg Medical Center announces a call for artists’ proposals for artwork to be installed in the new Wellness, Education and Resource Center (WERC). This facility is completed and currently open to the public. PMC invites artists to submit completed pieces and/or proposals for custom pieces that are inviting and stimulating, contemporary, and generally represent the people of Petersburg, the area’s nature-based environment, and Petersburg’s unique history. The deadline for proposals is May 31, 2026. Artists may submit up to three piece... Full story
This sedimentary rock, a natural history artifact, was found near Port Camden on Kuiu Island and contains the fossilized imprints of alder (Alnus sp.) leaves. Fossilized alder leaves in Southeast Alaska are identified by their simple, ovate-to-elliptical shape, sharp double-toothed margins and pinnate veins. Alder leaves, along with birch and willow, are common fossils found in the sedimentary rocks that lined the shores of historic water bodies throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Cenozoic-age...
The Holy Cross House of the Petersburg Lutheran Church was full to capacity on Saturday afternoon for the 11th annual Spring Tea hosted by the Pioneers of Alaska The event is a fundraiser and all proceeds from ticket sales benefit the Pioneers' scholarship for graduating Petersburg High School students heading to trade school or college. Participants - many of the young ones dressed as butterflies and princesses - socialized at tables they decorated themselves, enjoyed a selection of dozen teas...
18 – There are no issues in the archive until May 19, 1926. Thank you for your patience. April 6, 1951 – With the coming of spring rains the snow is fast disappearing in the woods and ice has gone out of most of the creeks. This has meant an upswing in activity among those men concerned with predator control. Hosea Sarber, wildlife agent, and Doyle Cisney, skipper of the Black Bear, returned late last week from a field trip on wolf control. They found wolves very scarce along the Narrows, so scarce “there don’t seem to be any on Mitkof,...
Beams of golden light shine on Frederick Sound at sunrise, as seen from Petersburg's Sandy Beach Park on Wednesday morning, April 8....
Thorin Stolpe shows Rader Evens how it is done during Spring Break Camp with Kinder Skog....
18 – There are no issues in the archive until May 19, 1926. Thank you for your patience. March 16, 1951 – At the Petersburg Health Council’s Monday meeting the health nurse reported a well attended well-baby clinic and, though there are many cases of flu and croupy coughs, there are no contagious diseases reported at the school. The town council is asking to install in the grade school this summer the juvenile plumbing currently in storage. Several complaints of rats in the Coliseum theater have been reported and it was decided to write...
aClausen Museum hosted an open mic for local musicians on Friday and announced that the event will be ongoing, on the last Friday of every month. The room was full music lovers, and so was the lineup of performers who represented a broad range of styles and experience levels. Pictured above, local jazz ensemble Pendulum, wowed the crowd with their precise, toe tapping numbers....
This handtinted photograph by H.A. Ives depicts an Alaska Steamship Company's steamship sailing north through the Wrangell Narrows. Heath Arlo Ives, 1890 – 1972, was a commercial photographer and an engineer working in Alaska and Canada from approximately 1910 through the 1940s. As the primary photographer for the ASC, Ives' photographs capturing the beautiful scenery and charming towns along ASC routes were used in the company's promotional materials. In the bottom left corner of this photo, th...
In Petersburg, on March 28, around 100 protestors took part in the local No Kings rally. Approximately 3,300 similar rallies took place in all 50 states with an estimated 8 million Americans gathering in nonviolent protest of the Trump administration's overreaching policies regarding immigration and the war of aggression against Iran and the resulting rapidly rising cost of living....
18 – There are no issues in the archive until May 19, 1926. Thank you for your patience. March 16, 1951 – It’s nothing but the best for the Glen Reid family when something happens to one of their little folk. On Thursday morning Sandy Reid, small son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Reid, was trying to help his brother grind up some clams for the family lunch. But he tried too hard and poked his tiny finger too far into the chopper, taking it off at the first joint. The family frantically rushed him to the hospital where they learned that three prominent...
Joe Viechnicki kicksleds across the finish line at the XTRA tough Run hosted by Petersburg Medical Center to support accessibility for PMC Youth Programs. Despite the snowy weather about 50 participants showed up to run/walk/stroll/and kicksled their way down the snowy City Creek Trail....
18 – There are no issues in the archive until May 19, 1926. Thank you for your patience. March 16, 1951 – A parade of hats such as has never been seen in the Easter Parade marked the style show at the Emblem Club social meeting on Tuesday evening. There were hats of every description, made of everything from kitchen utensils to baby bottles, created by club members. In addition there was a style show in which spring suits, dresses, coats and hats from the Lillian Shop were displayed by the same models who took part in the style show Sat...
Undeterred by the heavy snow, around 50 community members took part in Petersburg's March for Life rally and prayer vigil on Sunday, March 15....
Petersburg's Irish descendants and their friends continued the annual Saint Patrick's Day tradition with a parade through downtown on Tuesday....
Mitkof Dance Troupe hosted their circus-themed fundraiser party on Saturday, March 14, in the Sons of Norway Hall, complete with a costume contest, vendor booths, carnival games, and circus-themed entertainment. Proceeds from the fundraiser went to support the dance troupe's purchase of the building, which houses their dance studio....
Blake Taruscio and Rena Brisentine snowshoed up Crystal Mountain and skied back down through fresh powder on Monday, March 9. Winter sports of that sort are not often possible this time of year around Petersburg, but the past two weeks have seen unusually significant snow fall on Southeast Alaska. On February 28, Petersburg received 15.5 inches of snow fall, an all-time record and more than twenty-five times the average amount of snow that Petersburg has historically received on that day of the...
18 – There are no issues in the archive until May 19, 1926. Thank you for your patience. March 9, 1951 – The weekend cold snap was indirectly responsible for a run made by the volunteer fire department at 3 p.m. Sunday. Pipes were frozen in the kitchen of the Ray Hood home out at the Point, and as Mrs. Hood was preparing dinner the oil stove exploded, showering the kitchen with soot and debris. Windows were broken in the kitchen and bedroom. The damage was so heavy that the family moved to the Arctic Hotel. No one was injured. There was a r...
18 – Dear Readers: In last week’s edition of Yesterday’s News we learned that Mr. Sidney Charles, editor of the Petersburg Herald, turned over his interest in the paper to local backers and that there would not be another issue of the paper “until another man capable of taking charge of the back end of the shop is secured.” There are no issues in the archive until May 19, when a new publisher, Harry M. Appleton began a run that lasted for only seven issues. Finally, on August 27, John W. Schoettler and Albert O. Elstad published the premier e...
The Kinder Skog squad cleared snow from ten hydrants on Monday afternoon after more than two feet of fresh snow fell on Petersburg over the weekend. "Clearing hydrants is important so we can stop fires quickly if they happen," seven-year-old Glenn Paulson said to his Kinder Skog mentor while shoveling....
Caitlyn and Brandon Ware welcomed Elizabeth Christine Ware into the world at 5:52 p.m. on February 26, 2026. She was born at Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau, Alaska, weighing 7 pounds and 2 ounces....
Last weekend in Wright Auditorium, PHS Drama presented their colorful farce, “The Matchmaker,” written by Thorton Wilder. During Act 2,(pictured above) Klaire Sperl, as hat shop proprietress Irene Malloy, wallops Barnaby Tucker, played by Payton Driesbach, while Minnie Fay, played by Rebecca Midkiff, looks on in horror....
February 26, 1926 – There will not be an issue of the Herald next week, nor can we say at this writing whether or not there will be another issue. Henry Phillips, who has had charge of the mechanical end of this office is leaving for Skagway where he will dismantle the Skagway Daily Alaskan plant and ship it here. The Daily Alaskan, which was purchased by the Alaskan Native Brotherhood, will be set up and operated here in March giving news and job service to the local and outside business. Mr. Sidney Charles has assigned his interest in the H...
