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Sig Burrell, of Rock-N-Road Construction, uses an excavator to demolish one of three houses located on Excel St. on Aug. 17 as bystanders watch. Swell LLC, a real estate development firm, plans on building low income housing on the property....
An Aero L-39 Albatros jet touched down at Petersburg Airport on Tuesday on its way to Elmendorf Air Force Base. Tonka Toy Rentals/ Fuel refilled the jet with about 460 gallons of jet A fuel, according to owner Charles Davis....
Tula Winje and her dad Paul Winje paint Daniel Christensen's wall around his front yard. Christensen invited the children in town to paint fishes, plants, mollusks and crustaceans on the wall....
A hummingbird feeds out of a nasturtium....
August 13, 1920 Colonel W. B. Greeley, National Forester for the U.S. was a Petersburg visitor late last week and spent the greater part of one day and night here inspecting the local mill, going over the town and conferring with local people about the water power and pulp possibilities of this section. “I am greatly surprised at the timber resources of Alaska. I had always been led to believe that the timber was in comparatively small stands along the coast, but when I see the entire coast heavily timbered I have to revise my opinion. The s...
A curious river otter watches as a pair of kayakers make their way up the slough. The river otter followed the kayakers, while keeping an eye on them and making funny noises....
Roman Robert Cardenas was born to Robyn and Daniel Cardenas on July 11, 2020 in Juneau, Alaska. He weighed 7 lbs.,10 oz. and was 21 1/2 inches long....
A milky white quartz vein sits close to Sandy Beach Trail....
The F/V Kennicott travels north through the Wrangell Narrows on Monday. According to a press release from the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, the F/V Kennicott could be making intermittent stops in Wrangell and Petersburg as tides permit beginning in October....
A line crew works to reroute the feed to and from the substation at the power plant to eliminate the span across Hammer Slough, said Utility Director Karl Hagerman. The previous feed was held over Hammer Slough by two rotten poles. By rerouting the electrical feed, Petersburg Power and Light will clean up the look of the historic Hammer Slough and Birch St. areas while getting rid of the liability that was posed by the rotten poles, according to Hagerman....
Rick Fish was already in line shortly after 1 P.M. on Monday waiting for the Petersburg Post Office to open its front window at 2 P.M....
Lightning could be seen over Petersburg during the thunderstorm over the weekend....
Doris Ann Baldwin stands with the 265 pound halibut she caught on Saturday. The halibut measured in at 79 inches long....
The waters in the Wrangell Narrows were calm Sunday morning after Friday night's storm....
Sun shines through the trees just south of Papke's Landing last Wednesday morning....
A young moose makes its way along the waterfront on Kupreanof Island near Reinarts' Cabin....
Twenty-one Petersburg residents pitched in to a GoFundMe to provide flowers for the cookhouse/breakroom tables at OBI Seafoods, Trident Seafoods and Tonka Seafoods, thanking the visiting processors for their extra hard work this summer....
On a freezing cold December evening in 1919, the fishermen's buyers cooperative in the Sons of Norway building became engulfed in flame, presumably from an electrical fire that had started upstairs. Nearby buildings were saved due to a lack of wind and owing to a protective layer of winter snow and ice. The building was too smokey for firemen to enter, and the engine used to pump water initially failed. Unfortunately, the building and contents were a total loss. Soon after, the community...
Jimmy Jones' 100 meter yacht heads north up the Wrangell Narrows Sunday morning. Jones owns the Dallas Cowboys....
Margaret Agner dresses a halibut onboard the F/V Vena Lee on July 16....
July 30, 1920 A post of the American Legion was recently organized in Petersburg with 16 charter members. The organization of the Post has placed Petersburg in line with other Alaska towns that contributed toward Victory by sending her boys to the war and it is hoped that the local post will prosper and thrive as it deserves. Every person who served in the Army, Navy or Marine Corps between the dates of April 6, 1917 and November 11, 1918 are eligible for membership. July 27, 1945 Because of the recent increase in motorboat explosions and...
Liam Jackson shows off the cigarette butts he collected on July 16 as part of Petersburg Indian Association's Cigarette Butt Litter Cleanup. Jackson and other members of the community searched the downtown area, Petersburg Harbors, ball field and around the Petersburg Public Library for discarded cigarette butts....
A buck on a Wrangell Narrows beach grooms itself on July 18, while a second buck pretends not to notice....
A family of bears forage for seaweed near Portage Bay on Kupreanof Island on July 17....
