Week of July 2, 2026
Week of July 2, 2026
June 25 , 1926 – At Wednesday’s Commercial Club meeting strong opposition to taking any action toward making Sandy Beach a city park was expressed. Some of the members felt that the place was spoiled for picnics or outings now on account of the number of private houses going up out there. Although the city had staked the beach out for a park, it was said that those building houses out there were entitled to the property they improved, by squatter’s rights. June 29, 1951 – Despite all the publicity Alaska has had in recent months,...
Southeast Alaska’s summer commercial Dungeness crab season will close three weeks early, after Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s Dungeness harvest estimate came in the lowest in at least 25 years. ADF&G announced Monday, June 29, that the 2026/27 summer season will close at 11:59 p.m. Saturday, July 25, after allowing a total of 40 days of fishing. Crab gear must be removed from the water entirely by 11:59 p.m. Aug. 1, though pots may be stored in closed waters for up to seven days if all doors are secured fully open and bait is...
I’m sorry to say this column is about taxes. Oil and gas taxes. Corporate taxes. Legislative debate over taxes. If you want to read about the World Cup or salmon fishing or summer recipes for the best potato salad, this is not your cup of iced tea. But what better to talk about on the week of the nation’s birth than taxes, one of the major gripes of the colonies against England. In the week before the nation’s 250th birthday, the Alaska Legislature is embroiled in its own debate over taxes. It has nothing to do with tea and everything...
I think the general perception of our nation’s founders is of a grouping of bespectacled, white-haired old men speaking an antique language that sounds almost foreign to our modern ears. In fact, Thomas Jefferson, the primary author of our Declaration of Independence, was a youthful 33 years old when he drafted the document in 1776. John Hancock, the president of the Continental Congress that approved it, was 39 when he applied his flamboyant signature as the first to sign it. The original document, its words inscribed with a quill pen in...
June 24 – An officer conducted a welfare check on Hungerford Hill Rd. Emergency Medical Service (EMS) was contacted and responded. There was a report of a dead deer in the roadway on Mitkof Hwy. The person granted permission to salvage the meat found the deer gone upon their arrival. An officer responded to a health and safety report but was unable to locate the described individual. An officer assisted a citizen. An officer assisted the Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department (PVFD) on Sing Lee Alley. There was a post event report of a youth...
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