To the Editor

Ted will be missed

To the Editor:

We recently laid to rest an extraordinary lifelong Petersburg resident, Ted Smith. I worked for many years as a legislative aide in Juneau, and that is where I first had the pleasure of meeting and working with Ted. At the time, Ted was mayor of Petersburg and made many trips up to Juneau to lobby for our schools, roads, harbors, our firehall, and library. I was working for the Juneau legislator Rep. Bill Hudson, and Ted would spend quite a bit of time in our office because both he and Rep. Hudson had an expanded vision of the SE communities they each represen...