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Local nonprofit Humanity In Progress hosted their second annual Empty Bowls event Saturday evening at the Sons of Norway Hall, where 167 community members gathered for soup, silent dessert bidding, live music, and to support people in Petersburg experiencing food insecurity through proceeds raised during the event. Passing last year's 124-person attendance record in under an hour, "SOUPerheros" who spent $10 for their pick between nearly 30 different soup options, bid on a multi-table spread of...
October 5, 1923 – The Alaskan products from the date of purchase of the Territory by the United States until January 1, 1923 aggregated in value of $1,113,355,813, scoring to figures recently compiled by Seattle authorities. Products of the fisheries and allied industries during the entire period exceeded those of the mines by about $2,000,000. The value of the products of the salmon fisheries leads all other Alaskan exports for the period covered, being almost one-half billion dollars. Gold is in the second place, approximately $130,000,000 l...
Petersburg Arts Council and the Petersburg Rotary Club presented a fusion bluegrass performance in Wright Auditorium on Thursday. The visiting trio, led by internationally acclaimed cellist Mike Block, kicked off their Alaska tour in Petersburg, and were warmly appreciated by a sizable audience. The Petersburg Arts Council continues their mission to bring quality live music from around the world to Petersburg with another performance coming soon. The group Lyric and Spirit - a trio of vocalists...
A team in Coffman Cove helped set free two killer whales that had been trapped in Barnes Lake on northeast Prince of Wales Island since mid-August for six weeks, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The orcas presumably stranded themselves by chasing prey into the lake during a high-tide cycle. Transient, or Bigg’s, killer whales are a genetically and culturally distinct population of orcas that live in the Pacific Northwest and feed primarily on marine mammals, according to NOAA. Barnes Lake has two entrances f...
An artists' reception took place on Friday evening at Firelight Gallery and Framing for the new art show featuring the linocut, acrylic, and multimedia works of Cindi Lagoudakis and the natural dye work of Karen Dillman, pictured right....
Industrial sewing machines, also known as cobblers or "shoe patchers," were used to repair such things as shoes, harnesses, leather bags and for furrier's work. Renowned for its mechanical ingenuity and enduring design, the Singer 29-4 was released in the 1890s. Its top-feed mechanism represents a pivotal era in the evolution of sewing machines as it enabled the work to be moved in any direction, allowing the operator to reach deep into the toe of a boot and to easily sew through layers of...
September 28, 1923 – Testifying in her action for divorce in Judge Hall’s court, Mrs. Otto Burkhardt branded her husband, Frederick Otto Burkhardt, the wealthy Alaska salmon packer, as an arsonist and testified that he purposely set the fires which destroyed the cannery at Chilkoot in 1919 and for which $290,000 insurance money was collected [$5,206,870 today]. Her testimony reads as follows: “I followed him down from the house to the cannery. He did not see me or know that I was there. I watched him go in and, from one end of the canne...
Angele McDonald Jones suffered a devastating fall on Saturday at her apartment in Anchorage when the railing at her residence gave way and she fell from the second story, breaking her back in multiple places. Angele, daughter of Wally McDonald, was born in Petersburg in 1988 and graduated from Petersburg High School with the class of 2006. In recent years, she lived in Petersburg with her husband, Michael Jones, working at Rexall Drug and the post office until moving to Anchorage last winter....
After 23 years, Brandy Boggs moved away from Petersburg. Although she may no longer be here in person, her substantial contributions to the community will continue as she remains Petersburg Medical Center's patient navigator - now working in a hybrid role. Over the years, Brandy has held various roles serving rural Alaskan communities. She worked for the state doing child protection with the Office of Children's Services for a number of years before transitioning to her role in the court, where...
September 21, 1923 – Earl N. Ohmer this week received a sea sled which was designed and built for him by S.V.B. Miller of Seattle and Gregory Hildebrand of the Fair Island fox ranch. The boat is twenty feet long, equipped with a 60-horsepower Scripps engine and at present makes about twenty miles an hour. Ohmer has been tuning up the engine during the past few days and says he expects to get considerably better speed out of the boat. September 24, 1948 – Heavy winds were given as the reason for damage caused to the boat Wave last Sunday at Gri...
After sharing a presentation about Southeast's species of mushrooms on Thursday night at the public library, members of the community had the opportunity to find fungi out in the wild during Gregovich's mushroom walks on Friday and Saturday. Pictured above, he answers a participant's question after the group had sorted through the table of mushrooms they collected during the event's 30-minute free-for-all 'shroom hunt at Sandy Beach....
Shipwrights of the past, as part of their apprenticeships, built a tool chest for the storage of their tools. Petersburg Shipwrights founder Fred Paulsen carried this toolbox from The Gloucester Marine Railways in Massachusetts to Petersburg, Alaska. Shipwright boxes were typically painted drab colors and had rope handles so as not to draw attention to their costly contents. Outfitted with wooden shelves and drawers, they protected and organized the tools of the trade – caulking mallets, a...
More than half of Alaskans born within the state have moved away, according to an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. A state’s ability to retain native-born residents is an indicator of its economic health and attractiveness, and Alaska ranked near the bottom of the analysis conducted by University of North Florida professor Madeline Zavodny and two experts at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Using data from the Census Bureau’s 2021 American Community Survey, they found Alaska retained 48....
September 14, 1923 – Abe Brackney is in the Petersburg Hospital suffering from a fractured skull and is hovering between life and death, Paul Lund has a badly disfigured face and is wearing his head in bandages, and Emil Meldall is in the Petersburg jail being held on a charge of assault until such time as Brackney’s condition is definitely determined – all the result of a fight which occurred between the three men on Tuesday morning. According to evidence adduced at the preliminary hearing held on Wednesday night before Commissioner T.J....
The Community Emergency Response Team training scheduled for September 14 – 17 has been postponed due to instructor injury. This class will be rescheduled at a later date. If participants are interested in saving time by taking an optional 12-hour on-line course before the in person training, please contact Aaron Hankins. CERT volunteers will make the ultimate difference in the event of a large-scale disaster. Please contact Aaron Hankins at AHankins@Petersburgak.gov if you are interested in joining CERT....
Kinder Skog kids filled 100 food bags for Humanity in Progress last week to distribute to food insecure community members. The Skoggies have been filling bags every couple weeks for HiP since 2021 thanks to grant funding from various sources including ARPA and the Rasmuson Foundation. Food bags are typically filled with a breakfast item, a protein snack, a dinner item, fruit item, and a treat. Sometimes the Skoggies also write cards or jokes to include in the bags. Encouraging our youth to...
Tlingit master carver Tommy Joseph / Naal xák'w, of Sitka, visited last week to clean the Eagle and Raven poles in downtown Petersburg. Joseph originally carved the two 35-foot red cedar totem poles in 2000. He is pictured above on September 7, using a scraper and scrubbing tool to clean off the vegetation, and had a bucket full of lichen and moss. He was there to "clean it, and then we'll treat it, and cleaning it will brighten all the paint, so I shouldn't have to touch up anything."...
September 7, 1923 – The Petersburg schools, with the exception of the first and second grades, opened for the winter term on Tuesday. The two lower grades are closed for a time on account of whooping cough, which has been going the rounds of the younger children this summer. To limit as much as possible the further dissemination of whooping cough, the School Board, in consultation with the Health Officer, has ordered Principal Earl Shaeffer to issue the following edict: – “The contagious disease known as whooping cough is a serious disea...
In 1935 Dick Estelle’s parents worked in the Matanuska Colony, part of the New Deal resettlement of displaced farmers. After an admittedly rocky high school start, he ended up attending the University of Alaska with an agriculture scholarship. He also attended Oregon State in landscape design, after which he taught at Tanana. With time and more education, he joined the U.S. Forest Service in Petersburg. Though he enjoyed drawing and sold his art, he always called himself a photographer. After r...
August 31, 1923 – The cannery of the Petersburg Packing Company, this year will set a new high mark for number of cases of salmon packed, having already exceeded their previous high mark set in 1918 and with still a week to run. This concern also has the honor of having the largest pack put up by any single cannery in Alaska this year. Although the salmon run is properly over there are still enough fish being caught to keep the plant going for another week on part time, which will add several thousand cases to their season total. At the c...
August 24, 1923 – Pioneering the way for direct shipment of canned salmon from Alaskan ports to the eastern coast of the United States via the Panama Canal, the big steamer Commercial Traveler was in Petersburg this week loading 25,000 cases of salmon from Petersburg Packing Company. She also landed 15,000 cases of empties for the same concern. From here the steamer will go to Union Bay, Ketchikan, and Hidden Inlet and will have a cargo of about 115,000 cases before leaving Alaska. She will complete general cargo at Vancouver, Seattle, and San...
