Petersburg school district hires four new teachers

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 exchange program with the University of Alaska Southeast. She was only supposed to stay a semester, but she...