Week of April 9, 2026
Week of April 9, 2026
When Dave and Nancy Berg sold Viking Travel at the start of 2023, they said they were handing the keys to the right people. Three years later, the Petersburg Chamber of Commerce resoundingly agreed. The chamber named Viking Travel the 2025 Business of the Year at its annual banquet Saturday, citing the business - co-owned by James and Madeleine Valentine - for their community involvement, their contribution to the Petersburg economy, and their commitment to keeping Petersburg a vibrant place...
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Cora Campbell, president and CEO of Silver Bay Seafoods, returned to her hometown of Petersburg as guest speaker Saturday evening at the Petersburg Chamber of Commerce Annual Banquet. Over the course of about 20 minutes, she drew a through-line from the town's 1897 founding to the hard lessons of the 2023 salmon crisis - and outlined an optimistic slate of value-added products she said will soon be flowing through the Petersburg plant. "As pink salmon goes, so goes the economy," Campbell told...
After more than three decades of planning, Petersburg’s Scow Bay marine facility project is approaching construction, and the borough has begun the process of clearing the site — notifying businesses leasing borough-owned parcels at the location that their leases will end this fall. Harbormaster Glo Wollen sent letters April 3 to tenants at the Scow Bay site outlining a schedule that calls for all leases on borough property there to end Sept. 30, 2026, at the earliest. Tenants then have 60 days under their lease terms to remove equipment...
Molly Taiber recently returned from Juneau, where she spent several days this legislative session doing what she has done every year for the past six years: sitting across from state legislators making the case that Alaska’s public employees are heading toward a retirement they will not be able to live on. For most of Alaska’s history as a state, a career in public service came with one of the better retirement packages in the country — a guaranteed pension that rewarded workers for building careers in Alaska. That system was dismantled...
For the second time in his music career, Petersburg senior Canek Sosa was selected to the All-State Jazz Band. Sosa was also selected to the Juneau Honor Jazz Band. Only one drum set player is selected to the All-State Jazz Band and the Juneau Honor Jazz band, it's rare. "It's definitely exciting. I'm not someone that's pressured very easily so I would say I didn't feel as much pressure as people would think. I took it very well knowing I was the only drummer there," Sosa said. Sosa got to play...
1926 – There are no issues in the archive until May 19, 1926. Thank you for your patience. April 6, 1951 – With the coming of spring rains the snow is fast disappearing in the woods and ice has gone out of most of the creeks. This has meant an upswing in activity among those men concerned with predator control. Hosea Sarber, wildlife agent, and Doyle Cisney, skipper of the Black Bear, returned late last week from a field trip on wolf control. They found wolves very scarce along the Narrows, so scarce “there don’t seem to be any on...
Beams of golden light shine on Frederick Sound at sunrise, as seen from Petersburg's Sandy Beach Park on Wednesday morning, April...
Sport anglers in Southeast Alaska can fish more Chinook (king) salmon this year than last year, with a daily bag limit of two fish for residents. Any wild king salmon harvested by sport anglers must be at least 28 inches in length. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game this week announced updated sport fishing regulations for the region that went into effect April 1. Jeff Rice, a state biologist for the Petersburg/Wrangell area, said the updated regulations in place for the fishery are "more...
The Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery remained open Monday in the south end of Sitka Sound, although fishing has slowed to a standstill, the Department of Fish and Game announced. Spawning activity also appear to have slowed, with 30.6 nautical miles of spawn measured as of this morning, biologists said. No commercial harvest was recorded for Friday, Saturday or Sunday, and the total caught to date remained at 6,555 tons. Fish and Game opened the fishery over the weekend in Deep Inlet, and from Cape Burunof to Cape Aspid, on the...
This past weekend, Viking Swim Club held a three day clinic that saw 3x Olympic medalist Margaret Hoelzer bring her knowledge and experience to Petersburg. These days, Holzer resides in Seattle, where she coaches swim team athletes year round. "I've been doing swim clinics for 20 years now. I do this periodically, all over the place, specifically in Seattle, I teach lessons," Hoelzer said. Her lessons are every year, while the swim clinics are periodically. "I did a lot of [clinics] when I was...
More harm than good To the Editor: The “SAVE” Act was intentionally given that name to infer that somehow we need to “save the voting system in America.” It’s a trick used by politicians to make uniformed voters believe they are supporting a just cause. I say it’s a trick because the United States has one of the most secure election systems in the world. No amount of unproved claims of voter fraud change that fact. A closer look shows it is a solution in search of a problem – and one that risks doing more harm than good. Voter...
Little kids can’t help but play with their food. Gamblers can’t stop playing with a pair of dice or deck of cards. Cats can’t help but play with a ball of yarn. It’s the same with legislators who play around with voter-enticing talk of a fat Permanent Fund dividend. They just can’t help themselves, particularly in an election year. Like kids, gamblers and cats, it’s in the DNA of too many elected officials. It’s too much “fun” to talk about a PFD this year of almost four times the size of last year’s dividend. It’s too...
April 1 – An officer assisted Emergency Medical Services (EMS) on S 2nd St. An officer assisted EMS with a stroke on Mitkof Hwy. An officer provided lockout assistance on Mitkof Hwy. A citizen reported their dog was lost. An officer assisted a juvenile with concerns. April 2 – An activated alarm at a business on Harbor Way was reported. A protective order was served. There was a report of vehicle damage. April 3 – An officer assisted a citizen concerned about a city ordinance. A protective order was served. An officer provided a...
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