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The Pilot would like to congratulate those Petersburg High School students who earned a spot on the First Semester Honor Rolls. Students with a 4.0 grade point are named to the Highest Honor Roll: Alisa Tolkachova, Natalee Bertagnoli, Hendrik Cumps, Waylon Jones, Eleanor Kandoll, Ali Kittams, Kinley Lister, Martha Midkiff, Rebecca Midkiff, Mette Miller, Anya Pawuk, Joseph Tagaban, Maria Toth, and Elias Ward. Students with a grade point average of 3.5 to 3.99 are named to the High Honor Roll: Elias Anderson, Kristina Barkfelt, Ethan Bertagnoli,...
Julian Cumps, son of Alice and Thomas Cumps, was named to the Fall 2023 Dean’s List, a scholarly award for students who demonstrate academic excellence. Julian is studying Mathematics and Computer Science at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota....
January 11, 1924 – The Petersburg Chamber of Commerce this week passed its first birthday as an active organization. Treasurer Ed Locken rendered his report for the year showing that $726.95 was collected and expended during the last year to carry on the work of the organization. Secretary M.S. Perkins reported in detail on the work which has been accomplished by the Club during the year. The Club since its inception has become one of the most active of the Alaskan organizations, holding regular meetings twice each month and considering p...
January 11, 1924 – With $30,000 capital, subscribed by forty residents of Wrangell, a cold storage plant will be erected at Wrangell and be placed in operation in the spring, according to the Wrangell Sentinel. The plant will be in the charge of Oliver D. Leet, a cold storage engineer. The coming of Mr. Leet to establish a business that is greatly needed here is an example of how the tourist business may become a means of developing the country. During the past summer, Dr. D.H. Leet, a prominent surgeon of the Buckeye state, accompanied by h...
Around 60 community members answered Bennett McGrath’s call to join together at the ballfield and send a message of love and support to the Rodney and Mindy Anderson family as they go through a very difficult time. Many of the Anderson’s friends and neighbors joined together in the shape of a heart for the aerial photograph taken by Mike Lane of Sunrise Aviation from Wrangell....
Entering its second year, the Petersburg Bike Park is off to a good start of 2024 with volunteers working twice in a week during a streak of accommodating weather. On New Year's Day, about 20 volunteers made significant progress - adding 200 feet of new bike trail, grooming 1000 feet of trail by rake and shovel, and adding seven new features like rollers and berms. A handful of volunteers gathered at the bike park again on Saturday, riding the momentum to continue making progress. Volunteers...
Like starfish, sea urchins and sea cucumbers, Gorgonocephalus eucnemis, or basket stars, are echinoderms. They have round, flat bodies and five many-branched arms that can reach up to three feet long and will regenerate if wounded. They rest by day, then at night they roam the floor of the deep ocean looking for a spot with a strong current in which to hunt. Perched atop a rock or coral, they unfurl their complex arms lined with "jointed" hooks and spines, forming a net to catch krill, small...
January 4, 1924 – Announcement has been made from the office of Territorial Treasurer Smith that the Territory has paid the bounty on 4,500 eagles killed within her confines during the past year and that since the legislature increased the bounty to one dollar there has been a noted increase in the number of eagle claws presented and on which the bounty is paid. One resident of the Rocky Pass section, near Kake, is the banner eagle exterminator, having collected the bounty on 400 pair of claws during the year. December 31, 1948 – Fire, of an...
December 28, 1923 – Work on the new Petersburg school building has been completed and the desks and equipment from the old building were moved this week. When school resumes on the 2nd of January it will be in the new building, which is second to none in Alaska and one of the finest north of Seattle. While the gymnasium was not erected this year on account of a shortage of funds, this will no doubt be added next year. The last issue of the Alaska School Bulletin says: The Petersburg school building, now nearing completion, is among the f...
George Henderson founded Dorchester Pottery in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1895. The pottery made jugs, jars, flower pots, butter pots, specialty items and, later, dinnerware. This stoneware foot warmer, donated to the museum by Harvey Gilliland, dates back to 1912, the year Henderson was granted a patent for "a new and useful improvement in taps or nipples for earthenware containers" – a leak-proof metal screw-off tap that was used in place of a rubber stopper. The Henderson foot warmer w...
Sandy Beach will be fired up for the holidays this Saturday, Dec. 16, when the first ever Jingle & Mingle event —facilitated through the Parks & Recreation department— will take place at shelters one and two from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Several Petersburg Borough departments will pitch in for an evening of s’mores, music, good company and a special appearance from a certain jolly someone. Attendees from the Petersburg community can look forward to “the camaraderie” of gathering together around the various fires during the event, “seeing people just c...
December 14, 1923 – “Alaska is destined for ultimate statehood,” said Harding after seeing Alaska. “In a very few years we can set off the panhandle and a large block of the connecting southeastern part as a state. This region now contains easily ninety per cent of the white population and of the developed resources. It would be the greatest single impetus that could possibly be given to the right kind of development. As to the rest of the territory, I would leave the Alaskans of the future to decide.” December 17, 1948 – The Alaska Stea...
Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department decommissioned one of its fire engines on Thursday evening. Engine 5, a four-by-four fire engine built in 1991, is being removed from service and sent to another community in Southeast that has a great need for its capabilities, said Emergency Services Director Aaron Hankins during PVFD's "push-in" ceremony on Thursday evening. As local road conditions have improved, the four-by-four off-road capabilities that Engine 5 was originally purchased for are no...
December 7, 1923 – It has been often said that the mineral bearing rock of Southeastern Alaska carries many industrial values other than gold, copper and silver, but that little attention has been given them because of the lack of knowledge concerning them by ordinary prospectors. E.C. Howard, the fur dealer, in his travels, came across a most interesting discovery not far from Ketchikan which again demonstrates that other marketable minerals, once they are searched out, will add great wealth to the mining industry in the north. The place is fo...
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