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Around 60 community members answered Bennett McGrath’s call to join together at the ballfield and send a message of love and support to the Rodney and Mindy Anderson family as they go through a very difficult time. Many of the Anderson’s friends and neighbors joined together in the shape of a heart for the aerial photograph taken by Mike Lane of Sunrise Aviation from Wrangell....
Entering its second year, the Petersburg Bike Park is off to a good start of 2024 with volunteers working twice in a week during a streak of accommodating weather. On New Year's Day, about 20 volunteers made significant progress - adding 200 feet of new bike trail, grooming 1000 feet of trail by rake and shovel, and adding seven new features like rollers and berms. A handful of volunteers gathered at the bike park again on Saturday, riding the momentum to continue making progress. Volunteers...
Like starfish, sea urchins and sea cucumbers, Gorgonocephalus eucnemis, or basket stars, are echinoderms. They have round, flat bodies and five many-branched arms that can reach up to three feet long and will regenerate if wounded. They rest by day, then at night they roam the floor of the deep ocean looking for a spot with a strong current in which to hunt. Perched atop a rock or coral, they unfurl their complex arms lined with "jointed" hooks and spines, forming a net to catch krill, small...
January 4, 1924 – Announcement has been made from the office of Territorial Treasurer Smith that the Territory has paid the bounty on 4,500 eagles killed within her confines during the past year and that since the legislature increased the bounty to one dollar there has been a noted increase in the number of eagle claws presented and on which the bounty is paid. One resident of the Rocky Pass section, near Kake, is the banner eagle exterminator, having collected the bounty on 400 pair of claws during the year. December 31, 1948 – Fire, of an...
December 28, 1923 – Work on the new Petersburg school building has been completed and the desks and equipment from the old building were moved this week. When school resumes on the 2nd of January it will be in the new building, which is second to none in Alaska and one of the finest north of Seattle. While the gymnasium was not erected this year on account of a shortage of funds, this will no doubt be added next year. The last issue of the Alaska School Bulletin says: The Petersburg school building, now nearing completion, is among the f...
George Henderson founded Dorchester Pottery in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1895. The pottery made jugs, jars, flower pots, butter pots, specialty items and, later, dinnerware. This stoneware foot warmer, donated to the museum by Harvey Gilliland, dates back to 1912, the year Henderson was granted a patent for "a new and useful improvement in taps or nipples for earthenware containers" – a leak-proof metal screw-off tap that was used in place of a rubber stopper. The Henderson foot warmer w...
Sandy Beach will be fired up for the holidays this Saturday, Dec. 16, when the first ever Jingle & Mingle event —facilitated through the Parks & Recreation department— will take place at shelters one and two from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Several Petersburg Borough departments will pitch in for an evening of s’mores, music, good company and a special appearance from a certain jolly someone. Attendees from the Petersburg community can look forward to “the camaraderie” of gathering together around the various fires during the event, “seeing people just c...
December 14, 1923 – “Alaska is destined for ultimate statehood,” said Harding after seeing Alaska. “In a very few years we can set off the panhandle and a large block of the connecting southeastern part as a state. This region now contains easily ninety per cent of the white population and of the developed resources. It would be the greatest single impetus that could possibly be given to the right kind of development. As to the rest of the territory, I would leave the Alaskans of the future to decide.” December 17, 1948 – The Alaska Stea...
Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department decommissioned one of its fire engines on Thursday evening. Engine 5, a four-by-four fire engine built in 1991, is being removed from service and sent to another community in Southeast that has a great need for its capabilities, said Emergency Services Director Aaron Hankins during PVFD's "push-in" ceremony on Thursday evening. As local road conditions have improved, the four-by-four off-road capabilities that Engine 5 was originally purchased for are no...
December 7, 1923 – It has been often said that the mineral bearing rock of Southeastern Alaska carries many industrial values other than gold, copper and silver, but that little attention has been given them because of the lack of knowledge concerning them by ordinary prospectors. E.C. Howard, the fur dealer, in his travels, came across a most interesting discovery not far from Ketchikan which again demonstrates that other marketable minerals, once they are searched out, will add great wealth to the mining industry in the north. The place is fo...
November 30, 1923 – The Thanksgiving Eve masquerade this year was a most enjoyable and successful affair. The hall was crowded and the costumes were many and varied. The hit of the evening was Barney Google and Spark Plug, enacted by Alva Allen with Mat Rayner and Jonas Hallingstad as the “front and hind legs of the ‘orse.’” Mrs. Lillian Renke as the Irish hod carrier was very clever and caused considerable comment. Chris Gronseth as the snowman was a decided novelty, his costume showing considerable ingenuity and much work. Mrs. Hans Wick...
After helping her friend Kerry Kirkpatrick set up a solo exhibition at Juneau Douglas City Museum last year, Suzanne Fuqua realized the time has arrived to introduce herself to her community as an artist. Clausen Memorial Museum will host Fuqua's first ever solo exhibition from Dec. 1 through Dec. 14. The art show titled "Before, After, and In Between" will showcase a collection of around 50 paintings in a range of styles and mediums produced by Fuqua over the past five years. There will be...
November 23, 1923 – the local Post American Legion has been busy getting its new club rooms in shape for opening. These rooms will also be used as Scout headquarters and to house the new community library which the Legion is sponsoring. The need of a library in our town has long been felt. The Post urgently requests that if you have any books that you have finished with – and every home should have some – give same either to Mr. Locken or to the librarian, H. H. Storey, and the books will be called for immediately. A nominal fee for the privi...
November 16, 1923 – What for a time looked like a serious accident occurred to the steamer Northwestern as she was pulling away from the Petersburg dock last Saturday. In rounding the red spar buoy into the channel opposite the town, the vessel refused to answer her helm and plowed into the sand bar in front of the Hanseth homestead. When she finally stopped, her bow was within a few feet of dry land and she was apparently tightly stuck. Scows were immediately towed to the scene and considerable concentrates from the forward hold were l...
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