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Lloyd Edward Lapeyri, 73, former owner of Mitkof Lumber Company in Petersburg died Sept. 3 of complications from a vehicle accident. Lapeyri, at the time of his death was the owner of Captain’s Choice Motel and Chilkoot Fish and Caviar in Haines, according to a report in the Chilkat Valley News. The former sawmill operator had recently undergone surgery for heart bypass and valve replacement, according to former employee and friend Larry Beck. In 1976, Lapeyri accepted the position of general manager at Mitkof Lumber Company in Petersburg. H...
JUNEAU (AP) — Sealaska Heritage Institute says a southeast Alaska radio station has donated hundreds of audio recordings to the institute. The archival donation from Wrangell radio station KSTK consists of hundreds of hours of recordings made from the 1960s to the 1990s. Institute officials say the recordings document some topics of interest to Alaska Natives as well as the wider community. According to officials, about 200 reels of recordings must first be digitized before they can be used at the institute's archives center at Juneau's S...
Petersburg Police Chief Jim Agner, Sgt. Heidi Agner and Investigator Kalin Rosse received a letter of appreciation from the United States Postal Inspection Service Inspector in Charge Brad Kleinknecht for their participation in “Operation Last Frontier.” “This operation was the largest multi-agency narcotics interdiction in the history of the Seattle Division,” Kleinknecht stated. “Your individual efforts contributed to the overall success of the operation.” Overall, the interdiction, which took place between July 9 to 14, resulted in 22,723 p...
KETCHIKAN (AP) — The Tongass National Forest stakeholders’ group known as the Tongass Futures Roundtable has voted to support a proposed land exchange in Southeast Alaska. The Tongass Futures Roundtable voted earlier this month to support the land exchange between the U.S. Forest Service and the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority. The deal involves nearly 39,000 acres of federal and Mental Health Trust lands. As proposed, the exchange includes about 20,900 acres of federal land in the Ketchikan and Prince of Wales Island area, and about 18,...
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced last week that the Alaska Red and Blue King Crab commercial fishery will be closed for the 2012/2013 season. According to Alaska Department of Fish and Game Biologist Joe Stratman, the biomass of mature male red king crab has been declining since 2001 and is currently at its lowest level in 22 years. ADF&G policy states that the department shall close the fishery if the department’s estimate of available harvest is below the minimum threshold of 200,000 pounds of legal male red king crab. The e... Full story
September 29, 1982- KRSA, Southeast Alaska’s newest radio station signed on the air at noon Friday, September 24 with a signal that reaches to Petersburg, Kake, Wrangell, Gustavus, Juneau and Telegraph Creek. In at least one case, the signal reached all the way to Eagle, Alaska, about 700 miles away. The official sign-on was followed by the national anthem, the Alaska State Flag song, a prayer of dedication and a song, “My Tribute,” to bring the radio station on the air. Finally, the station air...
City of Petersburg Public Works officials, along with Petersburg Road Improvement Project Engineer, Matt McGuan, held the first of several progress meetings Thursday to keep the community abreast of the changes and what residents can expect. There is a lot of activity going on around the Dolphin Street and Nordic Drive intersection and to date the construction crew of Dowl HKM has removed the pavement, curb, gutter and sidewalk of Dolphin. “There are a few small sections of sidewalk, curb and gutter remaining to facilitate moving traffic in and...
Election for a Petersburg Borough has been officially set for Dec. 18. This election will be conducted by mail and is under the administration and supervision of the Director of Elections. According to Division of Elections Director Gail Fenumiai, ballots will be mailed to all qualified voters and anyone who is registered to vote within the proposed boundaries of the new borough at least since Aug. 22, 2012. “Ballots will be sent Nov. 26,” Fenumiai said. “They must be received by the Divis...
The meeting of the Southeast Alaska Power Agency Board of Directors on Sept. 19-20 in Petersburg discussed an agenda item that may signal the end of the Thomas Bay Power Authority, as we know it. A decision by the board to consolidate TBPA and Ketchikan Public Utilities in SEAPA, based on the finding of an internal agency report, will have to wait, however, for input from the Borough Assembly, Petersburg’s City Council and the Ketchikan Borough Assembly. John Heberling of the consulting firm D. Hittle and Associates performed the study of t... Full story
The Petersburg police station is now the number one capital project for 2014. The Petersburg City Council revised and prioritized the Capital Improvement Projects list Monday evening during its regular meeting. Several attendees at Monday’s meeting agreed the North Harbor and the police station were still the top projects for the list. These two projects were the top two on the list last year as well. During the public hearing portion of the meeting there was some disagreement over which project should be listed as number one. Local a... Full story
The Alaska Permanent Fund dividend for eligible Alaskans will be $878 this year. State officials announced this year’s payout from Alaska’s oil savings account Tuesday morning. This year’s amount is significantly less than last year’s dividend of $1,174, which was the smallest amount since 2006. The payout will be distributed Oct. 4. The annual distribution of the dividends is calculated on a five-year average of the earnings of the Alaska permanent fund. According to state officials the stock market took a hard hit in 2008 and that market... Full story
The 24th Alaska State Legislature Representative Peggy Wilson visited Petersburg last week to discuss any issues residents may have. “This visit to Petersburg has been wonderful and sad at the same time,” Wilson said. “I feel that Petersburg is mine because I have had it for 12 years, and I am going to miss being a part of this community when the redistricting takes effect.” Southeast Alaska had five legislators in the past but the area has lost 17,000 people between the last two censuse...
Mayor Al Dwyer read the Petersburg City Managers report into the record during the Petersburg City Council regular meeting Monday evening. The City has issued a request for proposals for Radio Narrow Band Conversion. According to City Manager Stephen Giesbrecht, the Fire, Police, Electric and Public Works Departments formulated the RFP. These proposals are due to the City by 5 p.m. Sept. 21 and the conversion must be completed by Jan. 1, 2013. Council member Mark Jensen questioned the deadline. “We will absolutely have problems meeting the d...
Questions regarding the decrease in port departures were a topic of discussion by Petersburg City Council Monday evening. Petersburg Mayor Al Dwyer addressed a letter to Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities Deputy Commissioner of Marine Operations Michael Neussl asking about the reduced ferry schedule for 2013. “Our community has seen an overall decrease in port departures by 19.5 percent since 2002 and an 18.6 percent decrease in passenger disembarkment over the same time period,” Dwyer noted. “These two facts are clear... Full story
Petersburg City School District, along with Kenai Borough Peninsula Elementary Schools are the first two Alaskan School Districts to receive national recognition for supporting the health of children and communities through the Healthier US School Challenge. As part of their efforts in this challenge, the districts feature healthy items on their school menus and emphasize physical education and activity. “Kenai had four elementary schools to meet this challenge,” Petersburg City Schools Superintendent Rob Thomason said. “But Petersburg was r...
As the Petersburg City Council opened the floor for public comment on the Capital Improvement Projects list Monday evening, a new request for funding was addressed. Dave Berg Compass Theater board member, along with Sarah Tate, newly elected treasurer of the theater, addressed the council with the needs of digital upgrading. “The theater is going to be forced to upgrade to a digital format to be able to continue showing movies in Petersburg,” Berg said. “This will happen by the end of next year.” According to Berg, only high school students wor...
Josef Quitslund crafted this bicycle rack for Rae C. Stedman Elementary School. There are two racks that stand at each end of the school made of aluminum and filled with sand to keep them in place....
Phase 1 of the downtown road construction project is well underway. The project involves removing all concrete streets, curbs and sidewalks and then installing new structures and pipe and repaving. So far only Dolphin is closed to through traffic, but the construction will extend to Nordic Drive and Excel street....
Recent thick fog condensed on plants like this backyard “common sweetgrass” bejeweling it with droplets.... Full story
Police Chief Jim Agner told the Petersburg Rotary Club Wednesday that he believed cases involving persons on the lower socio-economic level are not being prosecuted by the District Attorney’s Office in Juneau. Without going into specifics, Agner said the home of a person being detained by the State was broken into and a flat screen television was stolen. The Petersburg Police Department spent about $5,000 investigating the case and was able to interview a witness and the suspects alleged to have taken the property. They even recovered the t... Full story
The Petersburg City Council chose a new home for the Police Department from six different sites Tuesday, Sept. 4. The land that has been selected sits on the west side of the fire station and has been evaluated by the City's architect Wayne Jensen of Jensen, Yorba and Lott, Inc. “The City Manager, Stephen Giesbrecht, and I looked at several other sites beyond these six,” Petersburg Police Chief Jim Agner said. “We literally drove around town trying to 'think outside the box' and keeping an open mind about what would work.” After looking... Full story
September 8, 1982 - It was a fluke that so many coho returned to Crystal Lake hatchery this early in the year, but it made about 75 people very happy. Those were the people who made it out to Crystal Lake Hatchery before the supply of free coho ran out. Bob Zorich, hatchery biologist, said the offer to give away six free coho per person on a first come, first serve basis last Friday appealed to an awful lot of people. The hatchery had about 450 coho to give away, and the bulk of them went in the first half hour. After that, people stood in line...
The Southeast Alaska Power Agency is preparing a grant application to study the feasibility of hydrogen production and storage as an alternative to underutilized hydro. In a letter written to the Alaska Energy Authority by Petersburg Mayor Al Dwyer, he states that the Southeast Region has experienced significant winter load growth, which has caused, and will continue to cause, both energy and capacity shortages. According to Dwyer, the shortages are currently met with diesel electric generation that dispatches at a cost differential of four to... Full story
The Petersburg gun range, near Papke’s Landing, recently was vandalized by gunfire. Petersburg Rod and Gun Club President, Chris Cotta, discovered the damage when he took his sons out to do some target shooting. “Someone had shot the lock off of the front gate,” Cotta said. “I started looking around and noticed most of the clubhouse windows had been shot multiple times.” Other damage to the range includes the range shelter, trash can, the rifle platform and also the 6 X 6 uprights were shot...
A $10,000 reward is being offered by The Southeast Alaska Power Agency (‘SEAPA’) for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the vandal, or vandals, responsible for causing an hour-long, region-wide power outage on Sunday, August 19, 2012, in both the City and Borough of Wrangell and the City of Petersburg. It is suspected that multiple rifle shots into an insulator core on one of the main power delivery towers on Wrangell’s Back Channel were caused by a vandal or vandals. Although power was restored quickly utilizing diesel gener...
