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  • S'mores with cops

    Dec 29, 2022

  • Artifact Archive

    Dec 29, 2022

  • Good times all over town during Julebukking

    Dec 29, 2022

  • Dec 22, 2022

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  • Making winter bright

    Dec 22, 2022

  • Yesterday's News News from 25-50-75-100 years ago

    Dec 22, 2022

    December 22, 1922 – The Kake mail boat Trygve broke her tail shaft and went adrift at Point McCartney last Sunday forenoon and for three days considerable anxiety was felt for her safety. She arrived Petersburg safely on Thursday morning in tow of the Americ which had been sent out in search of her. The Trygve made Kake last week and was bucking a hard Taku wind on her return trip when the shaft parted. Paul Adams, a native of Kake, was a passenger on the boat for Petersburg. He at once took the skiff and rowed a distance of seven miles to Kake...

  • "Lost in a Dream"

    Dec 15, 2022

  • Yesterday's News

    Dec 15, 2022

    December 8, 1922 – A Ford passenger car arrived in town on the mail boat from Juneau this week for Ole Scarbro and will be used in a general jitney service. This is the first strictly passenger car to arrive in town and its first trip down the street occasioned considerable interest. December 12, 1947 – The custom of Christmas ships for Alaska will be revived this year after a 10-year lapse. With a Santa Claus to distribute candy, fruit and nuts to children and sprays of holly to their mothers, a show will be put on at each port, officials sai...

  • Carrying on a delicious tradition

    Dec 15, 2022

    Petersburg's Sons of Norway Hall saw a sizeable turnout for Wednesday night's pickled herring contest. The annual event-which celebrated its 45th year back in 2019 but was disrupted in 2020 and 2021 by the pandemic-made its triumphant return with dozens of seafood delicacies competing in five categories. First place in the pickled herring category went to Glo Wollen, her third ever win in thirty years of competing in the contest. Reigning champion Jim Edgars' smoked winter king proved...

  • Online series focuses on preserving Alaska's natural foods

    Dec 15, 2022

    Learn to safely preserve foods at home in a five-week series of online classes available statewide from January 7 to February 4, 2023. Sarah Lewis, an agent with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service, will teach the Preserving Alaska’s Bounty series. Students will learn about and practice pickling and fermenting vegetables; canning fruits, berries and pickles in a boiling water bath; and preserving meat, fish and vegetables using a pressure canner. Classes will also cover dehydrating fruits and vegetables, making j...

  • Artifact Archive

    Dec 15, 2022

    Mantle ewers were a popular decor item in the Victorian years between 1837 and 1901. Not a vase, the body is actually sealed. Ewers were placed atop a mantle on either side of a clock, and as one antique aficionado stated, "were designed. . . to be forever dry and dusty." This piece was collected by Alice Frederickson and owned by Sybil Locken. Very civic-minded, Sybil helped establish the Episcopal Church, organized the public library, and was involved in many organizations as chair and...

  • Wild ice

    Dec 8, 2022

  • Yesterday's News News from 25-50-75-100 years ago

    Dec 8, 2022

    December 8, 1922 – Official announcement has been made by E. Brokke, representative of the Norwegian Young People’s Society of the United States, who is now in Ketchikan, that Ketchikan has been chosen as the site for the Fishermen’s Home to be built by the organization. The institution will cost approximately $30,000, it is estimated and will be intended to give the comforts of home to many fishermen who come there regularly, periodically, or occasionally, and who now do not enjoy them. The organization which Mr. Brokke represents is affil...

  • Oath of Office

    Dec 8, 2022

  • Sons of Norway Holiday Bazaar

    Dec 8, 2022

  • Holiday season kicks off with parade and tree lighting ceremony

    Dec 1, 2022

  • Yesterday's News News from 25-50-75-100 years ago

    Dec 1, 2022

    December 1, 1922 – “I love them all – their father saved my life,” rejoiced Mrs. A. W. Thomas, widely known Alaska sportswoman, as she surveyed a family of eight spitz puppies in the basement of the Savoy Hotel yesterday. When Mrs. Thomas, the wife of an Alaskan canneryman, arrived in Seattle from Kodiak two days ago and brought with her Lady Queen, a pedigreed Spitz. Lady Queen celebrated her arrival here by bringing into the world a litter of eight pups. “Their father is Carlo, one of the best hunting dogs in Alaska,” explained Mrs. Thomas...

  • Winter wind

    Dec 1, 2022

    The northern end of Mitkof Island caught its share of strong winds Tuesday, with overnight gusts of 35 mph observed by the National Weather Service. The wind tore panels off the large commemorative mural on the side of Hammer & Wikan Hardware. A blown down tree damaged a Sandy Beach home’s utility connection. And, along Wrangell Avenue, two tall trees uprooted by the wind narrowly missed several homes; though one took a bite out of the Riemer’s garage roof and left Dave Riemer’s pickup truck...

  • The Mitkof Mummers Theater Co. presents Dorothy in Wonderland

    Dec 1, 2022

  • McMahon's first solo exhibition arrives after decades of working with glass

    Lizzie Thompson|Nov 24, 2022

    Local artist Debi McMahon's first solo art exhibit will open at 5:30 p.m. this Friday at the Firelight Gallery, celebrating forty-five years of playing with glass with forty-five recent works. The show will be up through Wednesday, November 30th. McMahon's love of glass began in 1977 when she "had a premature baby, Karine, and after a couple of months of caring for her thought, 'I've got to get out of here. I've got to have some kind of break!'" she says. "So I went to Community Schools and... Full story

  • Yesterday's News News from 25-50-75-100 years ago

    Nov 24, 2022

    November 24, 1922 – Forced to turn out to sea for six days, with the engines running every minute without a stop, and one member of the crew kept a prisoner in the hold for twenty-four hours, the halibut fishing boat Sentinel was held in the storm that raged in the Gulf of Alaska last week according to Captain Louis Sunderland in command. Nearly all of the oil was used and not a fishing line was cast during the entire trip, Captain Sunderland said. The Sentinel weathered the storm safely and came into port for supplies before leaving again l...

  • Observing Veterans Day

    Nov 17, 2022

  • Yesterday's News News from 25-50-75-100 years ago

    Nov 17, 2022

    November 17, 1922 – In what is said to be an attempt to influence election judges in Southeastern Alaska, a suit was filed in the District Court recently in which George Mason, a native, asks for $5,000 damages for being refused a chance to vote in at the primary election last spring. The suit was filed on the eve of election by W. L. Paul as attorney for Mason and is against L. M. Churchhill, one of the election judges at Wrangell at the primary election. November 14, 1947 – Community response to invitations to attend classes during American E...

  • Big preparations

    Nov 17, 2022

  • Artifact Archive

    Nov 17, 2022

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