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June 11, 1920 The Petersburg Hospital Association has secured the services of two trained nurses and they are both now on duty at the local institution. Miss Nellie Thomas of Ketchikan and Mrs. Flower of Wrangell are the two who are on duty. Miss Thomas has spent several years in Ketchikan and has recently completed her course of training in the Swedish Hospital training school at Seattle. She comes highly recommended by all of the doctors in Ketchikan. Mrs. Flower is well known here having been in charge of the hospital during the time Dr....
Wrangell dog Thorton is home safe and sound after a multi-week disappearance upriver. Thorton, a Chesapeake Bay Retriever, and his owner Brandon Kenfield were up the Stikine River about three weeks ago. Their boat scraped against some rocks, Kenfield said, and both he and the dog jumped out to get the boat loose. By the time he had the boat cleared, Kenfield said Thorton had disappeared into the woods. Kenfield said he and others made regular trips back up the river to look for Thorton over two...
June 11, 1920 The Prueschoff Brothers, who are known as being among the most successful loggers of Southeastern Alaska have just delivered a raft of logs containing 150,000 feet to the Petersburg Lumber Co. mill. Included in this raft were ten large logs of red cedar. There has been demand for red cedar lumber here for boat work and hunters, trappers, fishermen and loggers will now be able to secure this lumber from the local mill. On account of the great amount of sunshine which we have had this summer in Petersburg it is expected that there...
Erin Pfundt and Joshua Thynes were named to the Provost’s Honor Roll for the Spring 2020 semester at Whitworth University...
A killer whale breaches in Frederick Sound near Sandy Beach on Monday....
Woven hats Woven hats are a hallmark of indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Bear grass and carved wood are materials sometimes incorporated into Tlingit headwear. Tsimshian weavers favored spruce root, with Haida using woven cedar strips. According to the Canada Museum of History, this preference dates back thousands of years. Catherine (Kitty) Young, born in Craig and of Haida heritage, has woven baskets and this cedar hat that is part of the Clausen Memorial Museum...
The grass fields at Point Agassiz are green, lush and ready for summer....
June 4, 1920 The Point Agassiz Dairy is now in a position to supply milk, eggs, homemade butter, cream, cottage cheese and other dairy products to the public of Petersburg According to Carl Swanson, the proprietor. Mr. Swanson is advertising all of these products and asking those who desire any of them to the leave orders at the Sanitary Market. He makes delivery three times each week. June 1, 1945 Approval has been received for the issuance of 10 priorities for private new construction in Petersburg, under the new H-2 housing program. This...
A bald eagle caught a Dolly Varden trout near Tonka Seafoods early Tuesday morning....
Noah Pawuk,12, wrote an essay in Mr. Shumway's 6th grade class that was submitted for a contest through the Elks Lodge. He wrote about 'What does freedom of speech mean to me?' Pawuk's essay won first place in the state of Alaska and will now be submitted to compete nationally....
May 28, 1920 Work on the Petersburg Scow Bay road has been started by the Alaska Road Commission and it is the intention of that body to push the work to a rapid completion this summer. Mr. Cheatham stated before leaving town that $30,000 will be spent on the road this summer and that between 30 and 35 men will be employed from the time the camp starts until the work is finished. The work this year will consist of practically 2 miles of dirt work, including clearing, grading, surfacing and ditching. The logging donkey will be used in grading...
About 50 people gathered at the Petersburg Cemetery for the annual Memorial Day ceremony on Monday.The proceedings began with an opening prayer, followed by the reciting of the National Anthem. There were readings from the Book of Psalms and Ephesians, and pastors from various congregations prayed for unity and the healing of the country and thanked those who lost their lives defending the United States of America. According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Decoration Day was...
The Alaska Steamship Line was established in 1894, primarily for transporting passengers and fishing products to and from Alaska. Over its lifetime, the line carried everything from dog sleds to mining equipment and even cattle to the 49th state. During WWII, the government took control of the ships for the wartime effort. The logo, a modified totem pole, was designed to attract tourists. As one brochure stated in a section called Let's Talk About the Weather, Alaska has "two, not four seasons"...
May 21, 1920 Charles Schuck, the local plumber and sheet metal worker, took an involuntary trip to Juneau on the City of Seattle this week. When the Seattle was in port northbound, Schuck accompanied a friend who was going away aboard the boat. As the Seattle only had one ton of freight for Petersburg, she remained but a few minutes and when Schuck came on deck to get off the boat he found himself several miles from Petersburg, bound north. May 25, 1945 Porter Apple, fox farmer on Roberts Island, was chipping ice from a big berg near his home,...
The Little Norway Festival may have been cancelled this year, but a Viking scarecrow on Bucky Eddy's lawn kept the spirit of the festival alive this past weekend....
Jim and Teresa Stolpe set up 42 plaques along the trails between Sandy Beach Rd.and Haugen Dr. over the weekend to celebrate the Little Norway Festival. Each of the wooden plaques had a different Viking related word on one side and a stamp of a Viking head on the other....
The Elk's Lodge held a remote student of the month dinner last Thursday to acknowledge the hard work of PHS students. Top row from left to right: Kovi Kovacs, Advisor Jim Engell, Melanie Chase and Rylan Wallace. Second row from left to right: Brooklyn Dormer, Zephrie Whitethorn, DD Toyomura and Owen O'Brocta. Third row from left to right: Meghyn Parker, Stacey Eilenberger, Tristan Enriquez and Sarah Larson. Fourth row from left to right: Thomas Durkin, Lydia Martin, Brynn Lister and Adam Ware....
Last week, the Elk's Lodge held their annual student of the year dinner remotely to honor the success of Petersburg High School students. Melanie Chase, left, and Thomas Durkin, right, were chosen as this year's students of the year....
Jerry Hegar passed away May 14, 2020 at Petersburg Medical Center. An obituary will follow soon. Services to be determined.... Full story
The sun shined brightly over Petersburg and Kupreanof on Sunday....
