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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...
"I'm very happy to be here - it's pretty exciting for me," said Petersburg's new Middle and High School Principal Brad King during a lighthearted administrative report at the first school board meeting of the 2023–24 academic year Aug. 16. King said he "put away all my red clothing and got all my blue clothing out" and is excited to be working with staff to "support the kids, support the teachers and make sure that this is a really successful year."...
*To register a new student, please stop by the office at 303 Dolphin Street by August 25th *You will need to bring current immunization record and birth certificate (legible copy ok) *If you have any questions, please call the office at 907-302-2385 or 877-526-7656 ext. 400 Mrs. Willis Kindergarten Adalynd Birchell, Talon Caulum, Konrad Connor, Tess Crump, Kaeson Doril, Everly Gacchina, Raymond Gillen, Charlie Gudgel, Jon Hammer, Emily Martin, Isabelle Martin, Branson McIntosh, Ryland Newman, Elliott Popp, David Randrup, Oliver Reid, Kai...
Anna Thompson and Ian Andrews were married on August 18, 2023 by the Reverend Doctor Joyce Parry-Moore on the shore of North Douglas Island, Alaska. The bride's brother, Soren Thompson, stood as witness. Anna is the daughter of former Petersburg High School math teacher Tom Thompson of Petersburg, and Sarah Holtzman of Juneau, Alaska. Ian is the son of Kimberly and William Andrews of Douglas, Alaska. The Thompson-Andrews reside in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Photo by Lizzie Tho...
This photo of Max Haube with a 492 lb. halibut in front of Petersburg Cold Storage appears to have been taken by Dolores Roguszka. A professional freelance photographer whose work appeared in publications such as the New York Times, the Alaskan Sportsman and National Geographic, she was also a passionate weaver who made and donated thousands of "chemo caps" for cancer patients. She championed Alaska statehood, serving as aide and clerk in the Alaska Territorial Legislature during the 1955 and...
Looking to the narrows on North Nordic Drive, the home of Floyd and Barbara Strand stands as a one-of-a-kind relic of Petersburg's Norwegian roots. From its humble beginnings, this house has expanded, evolved, and welcomed home new generations for more than a century. It is the single oldest house in Petersburg, owned and lived in by the same family for its entirety. Initially built in 1902, what sets this house apart from the rest constructed during that time is the remarkable fact that its...
For many, the beginning of May is exactly the moment when Petersburg truly blossoms into life each year, and perhaps no one who understands that annual transformation better than the town's groundskeeper, Colin Perry. On top of caring for the cemetery and maintaining Petersburg's several parks, Perry ushers the community into Spring each year with his flower displays, fighting off the dull tones of winter and giving the town a fresh coat of paint just in time for Mayfest. "My favorite part is...
Inside Mary Ellen Anderson's greenhouse, a sea of green leaves ripples in the breeze of a fan. Pigeons coo nearby, and the radio, almost always on, plays quietly on a shelf. The air is made fragrant by tomato vines laden with fruit, cucumber blossoms, greens and flowers, and even peppers. "Every night," Mary Ellen says, "we have a good salad." The greenhouse is situated on a hill overlooking the Wrangell Narrows. Its walls are windows that showcase the handsome timber of the post and beam... Full story
Most people in Petersburg can say that much of their lives are spent on the water, whether that be fishing for a living or for food and fun, transiting to cabins, or taking the ferry to a basketball game or on a Costco run. To many, the waters of the Inside Passage are almost a second home. But only a few can say their homes rise and fall with the tides, that from the moment they wake up in the morning to when they go to bed the tides are a constant force in their lives. The live-aboards of Sout...
