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A wide-ranging recall of fire extinguishers produced by Kidde has been issued, after a device failure led to a death and multiple injuries. Announced last week by the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission in conjunction with its Canadian counterpart, the recall involves 134 different models of extinguisher manufactured domestically and in Mexico between January 1, 1973, and August 15, 2017. The extinguishers were sold in red, white and silver, and are either ABC- or BC-rated. In all,...
SITKA, Alaska (AP) — A policy change in China has officials in the Alaska panhandle city of Sitka anticipating a major change in the city’s recycling program. China is the top purchaser of Sitka’s recyclables and advised the World Trade Organization in July that it planned to ban imports of 24 types of recyclables. The city’s recycling contractor, Republic Services, has now put Sitka on notice that it might have to stop accepting mixed paper, plastics and cardboard as of Nov. 1, the Daily Sitka Sentinel reported last week. Mayor Matt Hunter...
The Department of Transportation and Public Facilities reported that the M/V Kennicott has been temporarily taken out of service. After completing its southern run to Ketchikan on November 4 it entered dry dock for repairs. "It's got a leaky seal on its port-side propeller," explained Aurah Landau, public information officer for Alaska Marine Highway System's South Coast office. She estimated repairs should take until mid-month to complete, and the ferry may return to service later next week....
Arnold Enge’s F/V Moonshadow caught fire Sunday evening while moored in the North Boat Harbor. A malfunctioning oil stove was believed to be the cause of the fire. Enge said damage to the boat was minimal and added that he’s performing clean up duties following the fire. Some Formica sheets will have to be replaced on the ceiling that bubbled from the heat of the fire, but no structural damage occurred according to Enge. Enge said he had shut down the oil stove before leaving the boat on Sunday, but added that the oil stove carburetor may hav...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – Alaska Gov. Bill Walker unveiled a plan Monday to address a rise in the state's crime rate and said a stable economic process would help. People training to put their lives on the line in state jobs connected to fighting crime should be assured they will not be repeatedly targeted for layoff notices every May during state budget deliberations, Walker said. “Alaska needs fiscal certainty,” the governor said at a news conference in Juneau. “They need to know now and into the future they're not going to have another...
Medical staff, an advocacy group and the police station in Petersburg have created a three-pronged approach to sexual assault cases. "Understanding what sexual assault is, it's kind of eye-opening," said Annette Wooton, the executive director of a Petersburg advocacy group called WAVE, or Working Against Violence for Everyone. "For a lot of people, when you look at the statutes, you realize 'oh, I've been assaulted.'" The Sexual Assault Response Team, or SART, is headed by local police, medical...
Tom Gregoire, a northern California pastor with five kids, had wanted to work in Petersburg the last three years, and in Alaska for decades. "I've been trying to figure out how to get back to Alaska since I was 17," said Gregoire, sitting in his study at the Petersburg Bible Church. "And it took me until I was 40 to make it." Gregoire was born in Kodiak but moved to California before he could remember much. He became a part-time pastor while working in construction. He had three children with hi...
The First Baptist Church in Petersburg started its search for a new pastor last week, coming after Don Higgins resigned due to health reasons. The first step for the search committee is to find an interim pastor to replace Pastor Higgins. Butch Young, who is the chair on the search committee, said the Southern Baptist Convention in Anchorage will assist in finding a likely retired pastor to step in. "We are praying that Don Higgins recovers completely and is able to return to preaching," Young s...
Trooper Cody Litster was about to pack everything he needed for the day into his truck one Thursday morning when he got a phone call about a shooting in his jurisdiction, 50 miles away. "It seems like it's all making sense now that I've asked a few more questions," said Litster, on his first call with a school administrator in Kake, who reported the shooting. Litster, a wildlife trooper, was in Petersburg when he first heard from Kake, a small village with no local police that's two hours away...
A Petersburg High School senior on Monday was given the highest honor in the Girl Scout youth organization. Julia Murph, a senior scout, was presented the Gold Award. She had to complete two projects to become eligible. The most recent was a brochure that mapped hiking trails near Petersburg. On the front is a photograph looking down on Petersburg taken by Murph when she was about 9 years old. Inside is a map of Petersburg with breakdowns of each hike and their difficulty. "Part of it was my mom...
WRANGELL – Wrangell delegates returned from last month's annual conference for the Alaska Federation of Natives at Anchorage's Dena'ina Center. AFN is the largest statewide Native organization in Alaska, representing 151 federally recognized tribes, 150 village corporations, 12 regional corporations, and various nonprofit and tribal consortiums. Its annual October conference, this year held between the 19th and 21st, provides AFN membership the opportunity to put forward resolutions as well a...
About 35 elementary students in Petersburg submitted drawings to local police in a contest to select its Christmas card. Three volunteer judges were in the Petersburg Police Department's training room on Saturday to select the station's next Christmas card. Teri Toland, Jeigh Stanton Gregor and Carolyn Hurtt scanned the drawings that sprawled across the table. Some were northern-lights themed, others were fish-based, and a few were bears with Santa Claus hats on. The judges quickly made a...
Six choir members and one band member from Peterburg were selected to participate in the annual Southeast Honor Music Festival in Klawock last weekend. "It's an all-star band and an all-star choir," said Matt Lenhard, the Petersburg band director who traveled to Klawock with the group. "Klawock were great hosts." The students from Peterburg who were selected included Joseph Giesbrecht, the first chair clarinet and only band member. The other six were choir members: Alex Worhatch, sophomore;...
This year open enrollment in the state’s health insurance marketplace has been shortened to six weeks, beginning yesterday and running through December 15. Enabled through the Affordable Care Act, Americans meeting certain criteria can apply for government subsidies for participating insurance plans. Before the start of each calendar year, they are required to prepare submissions for new or renewed coverage through the HealthCare.gov website during this open enrollment period. As previously announced last month, Southeast Alaska Regional H...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – Nearly 160,000 pounds of salmon from a failed Alaska fishing operation have reached an Anchorage landfill after testing declared it unfit for consumption. The Bristol Bay salmon came off of the fishing vessel Akutan last month, and its stakeholders are pointing at each other as responsible for the fish contamination, Alaska's Energy Desk reported . The Akutan was planned to be a floating custom processor that could handle up to 100,000 pounds of salmon a day for a small fleet of fishermen under Bristol Bay Seafoods L...
The Muskeg Maleriers are sponsoring the 41st Oktoberfest Art Share in Petersburg on Saturday, and a borough official said businesses have to charge a sales tax. The Oktoberfest craft fair Saturday at the community center is set to feature nearly 60 vendors including food booths with sushi, Thai food, frozen cookie dough and tamales, among others. Local artists will also be there, and nonprofit organizations will be selling memberships, said Sally Dwyer with the Maleriers. If a registered...
Karen Hofstad, an independent traveler from Petersburg, recently spent a month on a cruise that sailed through the Northwest Passage. Aboard the Crystal Serenity, Hofstad started a month-long expedition from Seward, Alaska, to New York. Being a history buff, Hofstad was less concerned with the landscapes -- majestic, as advertised by Crystal Cruises -- and more prepared to learn from the experts onboard and local villagers along the way. She was surprised by the Northwest Passage. It looked...
Pastors Lloyd and Yvonne Thynes were recognized for 30 years of partnership with the Faith Christian Fellowship church at a recent conference in Tucson, Arizona. Lloyd and Yvonne have pastored the Bethesda Fellowship in Petersburg since 1985. They became ordained in 1987, and for 30 years remained a partner with the Faith Christian Fellowship, one of the last in Alaska, Mr. Thynes said. "We were fortunate to be ordained through their church, but it wasn't that we came here to promote a...
Preliminary harvest and value figures for the 2017 commercial salmon fishery indicate the season was a step up above the previous year's disastrous harvest. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game reported a 66.7-percent increase in exvessel value between the two years, with 224.6 million wild salmon worth around $678.8 million brought in by the state's fishing fleet. Chum salmon saw the biggest boon of the year, breaking records with 25.2 million fish, worth about $128.3 million. The haul...
The Petersburg Christmas Tree will be located outside the municipal building this year instead of next to the Scandia House hotel. The tree had for years been on Pete and Theresa Litsheims’ lot. The borough decided to change its location to the municipal building as to not inconvenience downtown parking. “We’ve relied upon the incredible generosity of Pete and Theresa Litsheim to stage the community tree,” said Karl Hagerman, the Borough Public Works Director. “The change is borne out of a desire to lessen the seasonal impact to their bus...
It's not easy to create a five-star dish using beets, anchovies, chili powder, Cheetos and gummy bears. But that's just what the 16 chefs in this year's Chilkat Chef Competition in Haines had to accomplish recently. More than 140 people attended a cooking competition in Harriet Hall where six teams had 50 minutes to incorporate those five mystery ingredients, revealed after the timer started, with a Chilkat coho salmon. The chefs had to prepare four plates for each judge and a fifth plate to...
A trial for William Christopher Allen scheduled for trial in November has been rescheduled to July 30, 2018. The trial is scheduled to last 10 days according to court records. Allen was the driver of a Parks and Recreation Dept. vehicle that crashed after he experienced a seizure along S. Nordic Drive on July 4, 2016. Allen is charged with two counts of Second Degree Murder, two counts of Manslaughter, Assault in the 1st Degree and Unsworn Falsification. Killed in the accident were Molly Parks, 18 and Marie Giesbrecht, 19. Superior Court Judge...
Eric Olsen, 60, ferried into Petersburg on Monday and will begin as pastor at the Lutheran Church this week. Olsen moved with his wife, Carol, from central Idaho where he was the director of a bible camp for 30 years. Before that, he was pastoring in Montana for three years. "I was in the process of looking for a congregation to serve and interviewed for a position in Montana and Petersburg," Olsen said. "And I was here in May for a few days and feel that the spirit was leading me to take a...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Owners of Juneau's condemned Bergmann Hotel have put the historic building up for sale, days after its former manager was arrested on suspicion of distributing methamphetamine. Breffni Place Properties announced on Sunday it will attempt to sell the hotel as well as two other nearby houses that have been the subject of police raids, the Juneau Empire reported . Dave D'amato, who has power of attorney for the Barrett family, which owns the hotel, said the low-income residents of the hotel were causing problems in the s...
Kupreanof Island – 48 Stikine River – 25 Mitkof Island – 13 Thomas Bay – 8 Farragut Bay – 8 Wrangell Island – 4 Kuiu Island – 4 Zarembo Island – 3 Wrangell mainland – 2 Petersburg mainland – 2 Woewodski Island – 1 Total – 117 Note: 12 of the bulls checked in this year failed to comply with local antler restrictions, following a typical rate of noncompliance seen in other years. Antler configuration percentages 2x2 brow tines – 45 bulls (38% of harvest) Spike fork – 45 (38%) Three or more brow tines – 14 (12%) Spread 50 inches or greater ...
