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This year's moose harvest looks to be above the five- year average with the moose count at 64 just 17 days into the season. Between 2014 and 2018, the average moose count for this time of the season was 58. There was a dip in the moose harvest this time last year, with only 42 being taken. Fish and Game Area Biologist Frank Robbins said the warm weather last fall may have been a factor in the low number of moose being taken. In 2017 and 2016, the moose harvest was 64 about 17 days into the seaso...
The Petersburg Medical Center's Joy Janssen Clinic was awarded the 2019 Golden Stethoscope Award for its medication assisted treatment program for substance abuse by the Alaska State Hospital & Nursing Home Association. "It's just a nice pat on the back," said PMC CEO Phil Hofstetter. "It's a nice acknowledgment amongst all the different facilities in the state. I think it's worthwhile." The yearly award was given to PMC at an ASHNHA conference last week. A team of PMC staff wrote up a...
The water level at Tyee Lake was at 1,344.9 feet on Monday, which is roughly 60 feet higher than it was this time last year. As part of the Southeast Alaska Power Agency, Tyee Lake dedicates its power to Petersburg and Wrangell, while Swan Lake produces power for Ketchikan. While the 1,345 foot water level is lower than the norm for Tyee Lake, it is still higher than the 1,285 foot water level in September 2018, said Utility Director Karl Hagerman. If water were to stop flowing into Tyee Lake...
Despite being the second wettest month out of the year for Petersburg, September was slightly below the normal 13.65 inch rainfall amount at 12.21 inches, according to Dan Hartsock, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service forecast office in Juneau. Petersburg is also below the normal amount of rainfall for the first nine months of the year. There were 59.87 inches of rainfall reported in Petersburg in 2019 so far, but by this time of the year, the city typically has 70.74 inches of...
The Petersburg municipal election is next week, and only one proposition, which would authorize long-term indebtedness for utility capital projects, will be on the ballot. The loans will be through the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation and will be paid back over a 20-year period at 1.5 percent interest. The responsibility of the repayment of the loans would fall on water and wastewater rate payers. The wastewater department has five projects planned for a total of $2.6 million,...
Beginning this week, Public Works will not be picking up commingled recyclables for a minimum of six weeks, while the borough's new baler is being installed. The current baler has already been removed from the baler facility, and staff is prepping the floor for the new baler that is set to arrive next week. Commingled recyclables need to be dry and baled before being shipping to the recycling facility, so the borough can't store the material in the baler facility while construction is ongoing;...
Food service staff can now work with ease in full-size commercial kitchens now that construction on the new elementary school and high school cafeterias has been completed. Work on the elementary school cafeteria was finished on Sept. 16. Previously, food was prepared in a corner of the cafeteria that wasn't separated from the rest of the room, but the classroom next to the cafeteria became a kitchen area after the remodel. The Viking Cafe at the high school only had a salad bar and food was...
Mayoral candidates Jeff Meucci General Information Age: 64 Experience: I served on the Petersburg Park & Recreation advisory board, the Petersburg City council and served two terms as the Petersburg mayor from 1995 thru 1999. I was appointed to my current Borough Assembly seat and was elected to my Assembly seat two years ago. During my time as the Petersburg Mayor I traveled extensively as the number one advocate for the City of Petersburg. Why do you seek public office? I am seeking public...
Six candidates running for the three seats up for election on the Petersburg Medical Center's Board of Directors answered questions from representatives from KFSK and the Petersburg Pilot during a forum on Tuesday. Incumbent George Doyle, Incumbent Cindi Lagoudakis, Lisa Nilsen, Joe Stratman, Stacey Thorsen and Jackie Tyson each had two minutes to answer each question. Each candidate was asked the same question, and the order of the candidates changed with each question. The candidates each...
The Department of Transportation responded to a landslide near the 18 mile marker of Mitkof Highway on Saturday. The landslide was first reported to DOT at 2:30 A.M. Saturday morning by the Petersburg Police Department, according to Meadow Bailey, a spokesperson with DOT. Staff was able to reach the landslide, which had blocked the entire street, with equipment by 4:30 A.M. Mud and debris covered the road for about 300 feet and was approximately three feet deep. "[The landslide] was extensive...
A forum was held on Thursday to give representatives from KFSK, the Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and the Petersburg Pilot the chance to ask the two mayoral candidates questions on local issues. Mayor Mark Jensen and Assembly Member Jeff Meucci were given two minutes to answer each question. Both candidates were asked the same question and the order of the candidates changed with each question. After giving their opening statements, each candidate began answering questions. Some of the...
The borough assembly signed on to a Salmon Beyond Borders letter on Monday to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to act against Canada's inadequate mining regulations in British Columbia. Watershed from Canada's abandoned, proposed, developing and operating large-scale mines in B.C. impact or pose a great risk to American interests as the watershed from the mines flow into the United States, according to the letter. Salmon Beyond Borders asks that the U.S. Department of State work with Global...
Over six emergency flares were fired into the sky just before 8 P.M. on Sunday in the area of Farragut River, but the United States Coast Guard determined that individuals at one of the cabins were just disposing of expired flares. Dennis Rogers and his family were anchored in Francis Anchorage of Farragut Bay when they saw a red parachute flare slowly descending from the Farragut River area, Rogers said in a written statement to the Pilot. Rogers immediately called the Coast Guard Sector Juneau...
A portion of Haugen Dr. near the Petersburg Public Library was blocked off on Monday while crews repaired a bad water valve. While trying to track a potable water leak at the Presbyterian Church property on Friday, Public Works staff closed off a valve in the Haugen Dr. and 2nd St. intersection, according to Public Works Director Chris Cotta. The valve then began to leak. Because work to repair the valve would take place next to a state street, the borough spent Friday coordinating with the stat...
On September 11, Hunt Parr, Sr., 63, of Petersburg was issued a summons by Alaska State Troopers for commercial fishing the closed waters of District 6A. Parr is the permit holder aboard the F/V Somerset, a gillnet vessel based out of Petersburg. Arraignment is set for October 8 in the Petersburg District Court. On Sept. 11, Christopher Haerling, 28, of Petersburg was issued a summons for violating Landing Requirements in the 2019 commercial Dungeness Fishery. Haerling, the permit holder aboard...
Karen Nelson has taught rosemaling all over the country, and last week, she was in Petersburg teaching a hands on course on how flowers and scrolls make up the different styles of rosemaling. It is how each artist puts the flowers together on the item they're decorating and how they paint the strokes that creates a particular style. In the Telemark region, roses are secondary to the C and S strokes. In contrast, the Hallingdal style uses large flowers and smaller scrolls. The rosemaling...
George S. Doyle General Information Age: 66 Experience: Three years Medical Center Board Member Why do you want to serve on the PMC Board of Directors? Supporting a fiscally and professionally strong Medical Center for our community. As a current board member, I've become more aware of how dedicated the staff of the Medical Center is in providing quality care and services. What are your ideas to make the hospital run more cost efficiently? On a day to day basis the Medical Center staff does an...
Three elementary school teachers and one high school teacher have begun teaching in the Petersburg School District. Hillary Mullen is teaching kindergarten. Heidi Cabral was originally going to be a fourth grade teacher at the start of the school year, but she became an elementary special education teacher. Carla Green is teaching fifth grade, and Ioana Ward is the new science teacher at Petersburg High School. Mullen was studying at the University of Wyoming when she participated in an...
A second forum was held last Thursday after the mayoral forum for the four assembly candidates running for two seats on the borough assembly. The candidates gave support for local issues and answered questions from representatives from KFSK, the Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and the Petersburg Pilot. Vice Mayor Jeigh Stanton Gregor, Marc Martinsen, Chelsea Tremblay and Aaron Hankins were each asked the same questions and had two minutes to respond. The order of the candidates changed with each...
The Petersburg Police Department served search warrants at 410 Mitkof Highway at approximately 3:50 P.M. on Tuesday, Sept. 10 and found distribution quantities of heroin and methamphetamine with a combined street value of approximately $61,670, according to police. Carter Gueller, 30, was arrested and booked into the Petersburg jail on charges of misconduct involving a controlled substance in the second degree, a class A felony, misconduct involving a controlled substance in the third degree, a... Full story
Following the Public Works fire last month that caused a storage shed to go up in flames, investigators are at odds as to what caused the fire, according to Public Works Director Chris Cotta. An investigator with the borough's insurance company is looking at a potentially faulty extension cord as the source of the fire, but the State Fire Marshal's office hasn't located a definitive source, and has not ruled out any causes, including arson, said Cotta. The Motor Pool shop which is located next...
Members of the United States Forest Service met with the public last week to receive feedback and discuss the Central Tongass Project. The project encompasses many different projects in four categories: watershed restoration, recreation management, vegetation management and access management. Project Leader Carey Case said by lumping multiple projects together, the forest service will be able to work more efficiently. Goals and objectives of the project were identified in the 2016 Tongass Land...
The borough shut off their diesel generators Monday after running them for a week while Southeast Alaska Power Agency was performing maintenance on the Tyee Lake hydro project. A helicopter was used to work on overhead transmission lines, and a crew inspected and tested the soundness of the wooden poles on the south end of Mitkof Island, according to Public Works Director Karl Hagerman. SEAPA also worked on their governors and tested transformers at the Tyee Lake project. Additionally, work was...
In last week’s issue of the Pilot, a story about two Norwegians visiting Petersburg incorrectly identified Gerda Olsen. She was Karl Rasmus Dahle and Arild Jens Dahle’s aunt, not sister....
Cannery Park has been taking shape in the past few weeks, but Icicle Seafoods Plant Manager Patrick Wilson said more improvements are still on the way for the one-time storage lot. Wilson has been spearheading the project, which began about five years ago in the downtown area. The lot that Cannery Park sits on is owned by Icicle Seafoods. The Fryer building was eventually torn down after it began to fall apart, and Icicle Seafoods used it as a storage lot. Wilson said he wanted to display the...
