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Saturday, October 24...
Eight members of the Devil's Thumb Shooter's Shotgun Marksmanship Club competed in the Juneau SE Fall Shoot Invitation on Oct. 17 and 18. The team won a total of 18 awards during the event, which included shooters from Sitka, Juneau, Ketchikan, Eagle River, Palmer, Wasilla and Petersburg. Most of the current team are middle school aged athletes who have been in the program for several years. Jonas Anderson took four placement awards and first place overall in the junior varsity category. Cayden...
Jeremy Collison atop Crystal Mountain on Saturday....
The M/V Kennicott travels north to Juneau after departing Petersburg at approximately 2:30 P.M. on Tuesday, almost 11-hours behind schedule. According to a press release for the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities, the M/V Kennicott is currently delayed in Juneau while technicians fix a technical issue. The delay caused cancellations for the week's scheduled stops at Kodiak, Port Lions, Seldovia and Homer. The ferry is expected to resume service on Oct. 24...
October 22, 1920 The school phonograph has arrived. It is an Edison of medium size which can be easily carried from room to room. It was purchased with part of the money raised by the entertainment given by the school last spring. As yet only four of the records that were ordered have come. Also the school children have during the past week been making contributions for the Gift to France, a statue to be erected on the banks of the Marne as a gift from America. October 19, 1945 A discussion regarding the Teen Age Club was held at Monday’s S...
The muskeg near Twin Creeks Rd. is a popular destination for snowmobilers and skiers during the winter. It's also a good place to pick cranberries in the late fall. The snow capped mountains in the background make up a part of the Alaska Coastal Range....
Glimpses into 1935 Tourism This brochure describes Alaska life and industry in 1935, noting "the poor man has more independence in the north and. . .chances for advancement are much better". An unorganized territory until 1867, Congress established Sitka as Alaska's seat of government in 1884, and made the laws of Oregon applicable to Alaska. In time the capital was moved to Juneau, and laws were instituted to allow incorporation of towns. Petersburg was the eleventh to do so. By 1935,...
Members of the Petersburg Rotary Club along with other project participants broke ground for the installation of new playground equipment at Sandy Beach Park on Wednesday. Rock-n-Road Construction will remove the old equipment and grade the site to improve drainage before new equipment is installed. Pictured left to right are Glo Wollen, Brenda Norheim (representing Petersburg Indian Association), Irene Jo Littleton, Desi Burrell, Club President Bennett McGrath, Karen Dillman, Nancy Murrison...
October 15, 1920 Petersburg for the greater part of the week has been a lightless and waterless town. The light and power plant shut down entirely on Tuesday while Robert Allen and his force of men were relining the generator and the old engine with the new one. After tearing out the generator it was found that the shafting was badly worn by the five years of hard usage it has been given and it was necessary to turn it down and put in a bushing. This necessitated the shut down of the plant. All stores report an exceptional sale on lamps and...
Gregg Jones, a fisherman and member of the Alaska Longline Fishermen's Association (ALFA), connects a container of salmon to a crane in Sitka late last month to be donated to families across the region. ALFA's community support program, Alaskans Own, secured $250,000 to distribute salmon to Southeast families that were unable to put up fish for the winter as a result of the poor salmon season. Sealaska donated an extra $126,000 when the ALFA realized the need was greater than the original...
October 8, 1920 A determined drive is being made by a committee appointed at a recent meeting to raise money amounting to $8,500 for the benefit of the local Hospital, the money to be used in paying for the new heating plant, dividing the present large rooms into smaller private ones, and paying for other equipment installed. The needs of the Hospital were discussed at great length and ways and means considered for raising the money. At the end of the meeting a committee was appointed to carry on a two week stock selling campaign, which will...
Executive Order 9066 Executive Order 9066, issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in February 1942, established wartime civil control over lands from the Cascades and Sierra Nevadas to the sea, including Alaska. This order resulted in relocation and internment of Japanese-Americans and Alaska Natives living in the Pribilofs. Alaska was deemed a "military area" governed by the Alaska Travel Control, requiring permits for travel in and out of Alaska. Violating permit terms could mean exclusion...
October 1, 1920 Sixty three thousand dollars was the valuation placed on a shipment of live foxes taken south on the last trip of the City of Seattle from various fox farms in the Territory. Part of the shipment was from Skagway and the interior but 20 blue foxes and ten silvers were placed aboard the boat at Petersburg. The thirty foxes from here were consigned from the Hercules Fox company on Sukoi Islands to the eastern farm of the same concern located at Glance, Minnesota. September 28, 1945 The Junior High girls and Miss Heikes went...
September 24, 1920 The work of installing the new engine in the light plant is going ahead rapidly under the direction of Robert Allen, the local machinist. The engine arrived on the Admiral Rodman on Monday and was loaded onto a scow and floated to the power plant where it will be installed. On Thursday the work of dismantling the old engine was started. As soon as this engine is out of the way the concrete for the foundation of the new engine will be poured and will be allowed to set for five or six days before the new machine is put into...
On Monday, the kids at Kinder Skog showed their love for the Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department and EMS by decorating the sidewalk in front of the fire station with chalk drawings and words of thanks....
Local artist Born in Seattle in 1917, Josephine Crumrine was raised by her artist mother in various Alaskan locales including Southeast Alaska. After studying art down south, she returned to Alaska. In the 1940s the Alaska Steamship Company commissioned Josephine to create portraits of famous Alaskan sled dogs which were used as menu covers in their dining rooms. This one is "Rye," who was given to the Army at Chilkoot Barracks in Haines by adventurer Mary Joyce after a 1,000 mile sled trip...
Smoke from the recent fires could be seen over Thomas Bay from flight 65 on September 17....
The first stop along the Ephemeral Art Show route during the Rainforest Festival was Heidi Lee's "Flora." She got the inspiration for the piece from her grandmother who would wait at that spot for her husband and sons to return from the fishing grounds. See more photos on page 6....
September 17, 1920 Last Friday evening about 6 o’clock was a red letter day for many Petersburg residents both young and old. At that time they caught their first glimpse of an airplane flying when Plane No. 4 of the New York Nome air squadron flew over the town. Heralded by a loud humming which brought many people to the streets, the plane flew down Wrangell Narrows from the north made a large circle over the waters in front of the town and then returned over the same course as it followed coming in. The four planes in company left W...
Pictured is a popular ridge on Petersburg Mountain where hikers like to take a break. In the background across Frederick Sound is the Alaska Coastal Range, known for fjords, ice fields and tidewater glaciers....
State Representative Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins will hold public office hours Fri., Sept. 18 from 1-2 p.m. and Sat., Sept. 19 from 9-10 a.m. at Salty Pantry. Both times will be outside and socially distanced. Masks are encouraged. No appointment is necessary....
