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The Viking Swim Club (VSC) annual dinner and auction takes place this Saturday, Oct. 28. Doors open at 6:00 pm upstairs at the Elks. The event is the youth swim program’s largest fundraiser, generating around 35% of the program’s budget through the evening’s raffle and auction. The effort helps pay the salaries of the coaches, supports swim meet travel costs, and helps keep membership dues affordable. VSC is not a school district activity. It’s a three season long activity for Petersburg kids. And this year’s auction is also honoring the 50th...
Western Marine's dredging crane scrapes up sediment and hard blue clay from South Harbor and releases the clamshell claw into the collection barge. The sound echoes in the harbor. Dredging is done to remove sediment and debris that has accumulated in the harbor over time. The South Harbor dredge project commenced last winter and resumed in October after being suspended for around seven months due to environmental regulations. The project is expected to conclude at the end of the...
October 19, 1923 – The Wrangell Commercial Club voted unanimously in favor of the division of a new territory out of Southeastern Alaska and voted unanimously in favor of holding a convention at Juneau to consider the question and to make arrangements to inaugurate a campaign to bring about the division. The action of the Wrangell Commercial Club was based upon the request of the Ketchikan City Council that the people of Southeastern Alaska give serious attention to the matter of Territorial division. The Wrangell Commercial Club, acting u...
Brian Stoody is a bike park consultant for the Petersburg Bike Park project. He was flown in from Juneau last weekend to ensure the project continues safely on track. Stoody has past experience working on the Under Thunder city bike park in Juneau, and also as the lead designer and builder for the construction of the Eagle Crest bike trails project in Juneau....
Chouinard Mountaineer's Ax In 1966 Yvon Chouinard revolutionized the curved ice ax for climbing. He developed a longer shaft with a dramatically curved pick. He said, "A curve compatible with the arc of the ax's swing would allow the pic to stay better in the ice." His idea worked and began a revolution in ice ax design known as the "curve-a-lution." This mountaineer's ax was used and donated by Zac Hoyt and is currently on display in the special exhibit, "Devil's Thumb," at the Clausen Museum...
Jeigh Stanton Gregor takes the oath of office on October 16 to serve on Petersburg Borough Assembly. Clerk Debbie Thompson conducted the swearing in, then Stanton Gregor took his seat at the dais for Monday evening's assembly meeting....
Local painter Beth Flor's oil painting "Tranquil Respite" was selected from over 625 entries for the International Guild of Realism's Fall Online Exhibition. The juried show will feature works representing twenty countries. The paintings will be displayed on the guild's website from October 20 through December 20, 2023. Many more of Flor's oil paintings are being featured during the month of October at Firelight Gallery and Framing in downtown Petersburg....
Jon Hammer, in costume as Jack Skellington, brings the creepy Halloween vibe to opening weekend of the 7th annual Pumpkin Patch hosted by Anchor Properties. Face painting and fall season fun are all part of the festivities, which will be open throughout October with times and details listed on the Anchor Properties Facebook page....
October 12, 1923 – Work has been started on the erection of a Catholic Church on the recently purchased property on Third Street, opposite the little school house. The new structure will cost between three and four thousand dollars when completed, according to a statement made by Father Gallant, of Skagway, who is here overseeing the work of the erection. Arrangements for the erection of the building were completed some time ago and the lumber arrived last week from Wrangell. Father Gallant stated that, for the time being at least, the work o...
Josh Rathmann and Ryan Welde visited Good Beginnings for Fire Prevention Week. The students got to explore the ambulance and learn about fire safety. From L-R Kaili Simbahon, Tomi Taylor, Cameron Versteeg, Flora Smith, Maeve Uppencamp, Josh Rathmann, Ryan Welde, Levi Clemens and Hayley Short....
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....
