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Tula Winje and Carmella Ford go chair skating on the wild ice at Falls Creek on Monday....
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Staff at Petersburg Medical Center sprung into action earlier this month when a sudden leak erupted from part of the building's hydronic heating system, spewing dozens of gallons of mixed water in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) room behind the nurse's station on the hospital's second floor. Maintenance staff were able to patch the leak with plumbing parts, but have not been able to find a replacement for the actual piece that was leaking yet. There was not a patient in that particular room at the... Full story
State and federal fisheries managers predict that Southeast Alaska fishermen will harvest about 29 million pink salmon in 2025, making for an “average” harvest based on catch data going back to 1960. The prediction comes from a joint National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries/Alaska Department of Fish and Game 2025 Southeast Alaska Pink Salmon Harvest Forecast that ADF&G released last Tuesday. NOAA and ADF&G forecast that throughout the 2025 commercial salmon season, seine, gillnet and troll fishermen across Southeast Alaska wil...
Alaska Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom said Monday that she intends to recount a narrowly defeated ballot initiative to repeal ranked choice voting and open primaries. After a final ballot count last week, Ballot Measure 2 was defeated 49.9% to 50.1%. The repeal effort failed by 664 votes. “Alaska law ensures the integrity of our elections, and with results as close as these, a recount will be conducted as outlined by statute,” Dahlstrom said in a prepared statement. Under Alaska law, the state will pay for a recount in races where the margin is les...
November 28, 1924 – Frank Cotter dropped into the Herald office when the Northwestern was in port. HE is known to the reading public by the pen name of Pat O’Connor. When we knew Frank in the Tanana he was a slim waisted athlete; a champion bike rider, a runner and a boxer and a pole vaulter. But when he walked into our office the other day he was almost corpulent and decidedly prosperous looking. Possibly globetrotting to China, Japan, Australia, Korea, Tibet, Russia and other queer places have rounded out his slim form of days gone by, or...
Rear Admiral Megan Dean, Commander of the U.S. Coast Guard in Alaska, came to Petersburg on Nov. 21 to thank first responders from Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department, Petersburg Medical Center, the Troopers and the Police - presenting each with a plaque in recognition of their extraordinary response on the night of Nov. 13, 2023, when a Coast Guard helicopter crashed outside of Petersburg....
Tariffs harmed Alaska seafood and timber exports To the Editor: With this week’s call to impose tariffs on all products coming into the United States from Canada, Mexico and China, it looks like we may find out pretty quickly how they work in making things more affordable here in Petersburg. Like Mexico paying for the wall, it’s simply not true that Americans won’t face some consequences. Trade wars are tricky and complicated and new tariffs at such high levels threaten to upend international trade, disrupt supply chains, and send prices soari...
Chris Herren, a former NBA player and renowned addiction recovery speaker is flying in on Wednesday, Dec. 5 to speak with Mitkof Middle School and Petersburg High School students and share his eye-opening journey from success to addiction to recovery. Once a high school basketball star recruited to play in college and then two seasons in the NBA, Herren's promising career was derailed by addiction. His story has been documented in the memoir, "Basketball Junkie" and in "Unguarded," an...
November 20 – An officer responding to a report of a dog at large on North Nordic Drive found the canine had departed the area. An officer assisted Emergency Medical Services (EMS) on Haugen Drive. Isaiah Etcher was cited on Charles W Street for driving in violation of provisional license requirements. An officer responded to a reported disturbance on South 2nd Street and spoke with all relevant parties. A driver on Baranof Street was issued a warning for an expired registration. November 21 – An officer assisted EMS on Ira II Street. An off...
Advisory committees are making recommendations to the state Board of Fish for hundreds of proposals to change certain fishing regulations - a process that happens once every three years for the region. Proposals were submitted by members of the public, organizations, advisory committees and ADFG staff earlier this year. The Petersburg Advisory Committee for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG) coordinated with Crystal Lake Hatchery operators Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture...
PHS Volleyball season ended at the Region V Championships this past weekend in Craig. The Vikings were the number four seed and played Craig in their first match. The Vikings won three out of four sets against Craig on Thursday, Nov. 21. "We came out and played exceptionally well," head coach Jaime Cabral said. With the win, the Vikings matched up against the number one seed Wrangell Wolves, losing in three sets. "In games two and three, our passing and first contact were not there, we just...
Before a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court decision removed the legal barrier to apply local sales taxes to online purchases, states and municipalities were blocked from collecting sales taxes from sellers that did not have a physical presence in the tax jurisdiction. Most online merchants declined to collect sales taxes on goods shipped into states and cities with a local tax. Residents of Petersburg could purchase tax-free orders from Walmart, Eddie Bauer and other vendors online. After the ruling, to...
Joey Chang says he was getting ready to depart the Hubbard state ferry after it docked in Kake on Saturday when suddenly the ship was no longer at the dock. "We are getting ready to get into the vehicle and we saw the opening of the ramp, and suddenly the whole ferry was moving away from the dock, and everybody got shocked and pretty much everyone froze up," he said. "The north wind was blowing so hard it pushed the ferry away from the dock." "And then I was looking at the rope, because the...
It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of Trevor M Williams, 33, on September 11th 2024. He is survived by his beloved daughter Lily June Williams, parents Victoria L Williams and Mack R Williams, brother Lawrence A Walker, sisters Monique V Williams (who preceded him in death) and Brianna M Williams, and his many nieces and nephews. We will miss his wonderful smile, blue eyes and strong hugs. Trevor enjoyed the outdoors, fishing, swimming, hunting, diving, and was always eager to... Full story
Hikers Sarah Wright, Aly Shimek, Lauren Barbour, Margaret and Olive Agner reach the Raven's Roost Cabin just as the sun sets into Kupreanof Island on Saturday afternoon....
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Power and Light crew members David Mazzella, Casey Bell, August Jewell, Sam Caulum, and Kevin Hess, join forces with community member and Christmas light mastermind Matt Bryner to prepare the Petersburg Christmas tree for the town's tree lighting ceremony coming up on Friday, Nov. 29th....
Alaska’s open primary and ranked choice voting system survived, while Republican U.S. House candidate Nick Begich defeated Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola, according to the unofficial results released on Wednesday. The Alaska Division of Elections completed the ranked choice tabulations for all nine races in which no candidate received more than 50% of first-preference ballots. The division is targeting Nov. 30 as the date by which it will certify the results. There will be another tabulation completed then. Until that is completed, the results ar... Full story
The members of the Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department elected Dan Bird this month to replace Jim Stolpe as fire chief. Stolpe served two three-year terms as chief, and he intends to continue his volunteering career with PVFD for as long as he is able - though he plans to let his EMT certification expire in the coming year and will slow down a little when it comes to rushing into burning buildings. "After 45 years of doing it, I figure it's time for that younger generation to pick that ball up...
November 21, 1924 – Monday evening at the Sons of Norway Hall will be held the first basketball game of the year. The Town Team, sponsored by Sol Freyd, will take on the fast coming school team, and try to teach them a few lessons of the fine points of the game they have learned through the school of hardknocks. Both teams have been practicing regularly and are fast approaching their standard. While the School Team will be somewhat lighter than their older opponents, they plan to run rings around the Town Team. It is expected that the superior...
Earlier this month, the Petersburg Borough Assembly passed an ordinance updating the sales tax chapter of municipal code to clarify exemptions and rules for businesses, modernize definitions and organize information for better transparency - borough officials emphasized that the ordinance does not introduce new taxes or exemptions, nor does it change how sales tax is applied locally. The amendment highlights existing information about sales tax into clear new sections and adds definitions that w...
Alaska voters have had to wait until November 20 to see the final results of the 2024 General Election. Now we know that the winner of the U.S. House race is Nick Begich and we know that ranked choice voting and open primaries survived the repeal effort. But because of how early voting gets tallied in Alaska we will never know exactly how the Petersburg precinct, or any individual precinct in the state actually voted. The Division of Election’s published results show that Petersburg cast 843 votes in the 2024 General Election, but that n...
