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Tlingit & Haida’s Tidal Network is embarking on a seven-city tour of Southeast communities this month to update people on the organization’s plans for wireless internet service in the region and listen to community concerns. The Petersburg session is planned for 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 15, at the John Hanson Sr. Community Hall. The session also will be on Zoom: www.tinyurl.com/TidalPetersburgListening. Tidal Network has encountered differing levels of opposition to its plans to put up telecommunications towers in Wrangell, Sitka, Petersburg a...
The Alaska Board of Game will consider nearly 70 proposals affecting Southeast Alaska during its January 23-27, 2026 meeting in Wrangell, including several that would directly impact hunting regulations around Petersburg and on Mitkof Island. The meeting will be held at the Nolan Center in Wrangell, with remote participation available via Zoom. Written comments are due by January 9 to be included in the board’s meeting materials. The Petersburg Fish and Game Advisory Committee is reviewing the proposals ahead of the January meeting. The c...
December 4, 1925 – “Kinney,” who worked on a pile driver, as a diver and on other other tasks around Petersburg, was given 90 days in jail by the Wrangell Marshal. Kinney left here as a stowaway on the Rogers. He was discovered in the Wrangell Narrows and given a chance to work his passage to Ketchikan. It is said that he had some booze and entered the room of John Iverson, a well known logger of Petersburg, and finally got into a fight with Iverson and beat him up something fierce. He was turned over to the town marshall of Wrangell by the C...
Marc Taylor will be sworn into the Petersburg school board next month, filling a seat that has been vacant for nearly two months. Taylor has lived in Petersburg since 2022 and works for Trident Seafoods. He said he applied for the board’s remaining empty seat because he wanted to give back to Petersburg. “I just kind of want to do my part for our community,” Taylor said. He said education has been a big part of his family, which also contributed to his desire to serve on the board. “My whole family, outside of me, were teachers or worked... Full story
Tribal members will decide who will serve as the Petersburg Indian Association’s council president and who will fill three seats on the tribal council when the tribal government holds its election on Jan. 5. The president serves a one-year term, while tribal council members serve two-year terms. Current council members Heather Conn and Nathan Lopez and Heather Conn will not be seeking reelection. Conn will be taking time to care for herself and her family, and Lopez is moving out of Petersburg. Conn has held a seat on the tribal council for s... Full story
Most people have seen news reports, social media posts and business charts that show a line moving up in good times, pointing down when business or employment numbers are bad, or bouncing back and forth between the two when the economy is confused. Economists, commentators and politicians can look at the charts and declare life is good and getting better, or bad and getting worse. Those easy-to-read graphs generally track an economic statistic from a single perspective, making no distinction between people doing well and people doing poorly....
Censorship is rising in this country. Newspapers, the watchdog of the government, are closing at an alarming rate, and government agencies gag their employees, demanding all communications flow through PR departments. Studies have shown that closing local newspapers leads to higher levels of partisanship, decreased voting and increased government corruption. Without local news, all we hear is what the government wants us to hear. The situation reflects a fear expressed by former U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Douglas. Douglas believed that...
A 150-foot communications tower under construction on Mill Road and two other proposed towers have drawn numerous Petersburg residents to three recent borough assembly meetings to voice concerns about Tidal Network’s broadband infrastructure project. What began as scattered questions in September has grown into organized opposition, with residents collecting signatures, forming a Facebook group, consulting lawyers, and pressing the assembly to address a project many say they learned about only after construction began. “I was shocked. I had...
November 26 - An officer assisted Emergency Medical Services (EMS) on Mitkof Hwy. A welfare check was requested on an individual on Harbor Way. Papers were served. Officers responded to a disturbance on S 2nd Street. The parties involved were separated. A speeding driver was reported on S 4th Street. The vehicle could not be located. Graffiti was reported on N Nordic Drive. The graffiti could not be located. November 27 - An officer assisted an individual with concerns over items left on their property. An officer assisted a citizen with...
The Regulatory Commission of Alaska has unanimously approved a series of requests for financial secrecy filed by attorneys representing John Malone, the telecom billionaire seeking to take a controlling interest in Alaska’s largest internet firm. The approval means Malone will not be required to publish his personal finances and that the financial condition of three GCI-related subsidiaries will also remain secret. The finances of GCI Liberty, the parent company, are already public due to required filings with the U.S. Securities and E... Full story
Only a month after the Portland Marathon, 27-year-old marathoner Kayleigh Lenhard embarked on another competition - this time, in the Emerald City. Originally, Lenhard wasn't planning on competing in the Seattle Marathon, but her success in Portland, finishing 84th overall (fifth for women) and a time of 3 hours and 1 minute, earned her a spot for Seattle. "My time for that race was enough to get a free entry in the Seattle Marathon and run with an elite bib and I was like, 'I get to run as an...
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When clients aboard the charter vessel Dauntless suggested helping chef Alisa Jestel create her long-dreamed-of cookbook two years ago, she didn't imagine it would lead to cameras, a film crew, and a documentary premiering at Petersburg's Wright Auditorium next week. "Tide and Table," a short documentary from Two Doors Down Productions, began as a modest 8-10 minute film concept. But after Emmy-winning director Brian Bill and his crew arrived in Petersburg last May, they realized they'd... Full story
Inside a workshop tucked behind Charles Davis's legendary junkyard, Jordan Reid stands beside a nearly completed aluminum 17-foot jet sled which has taken shape over the prior three days, its pre-cut panels fitting together with the precision of a high-end puzzle. "Everything is self-jigging," Reid explains. "It took years of math and design engineering, CAD drawing, trial and error to get to this point, to be able to have everything click together like this." After 20 years of running jet...
December 4, 1925 – Governor George A. Parks, who passed through on the Watson from Ketchikan to Juneau, told Petersburg residents that one of the very largest government dredges would be employed in the work of dredging the Narrows here. It will be of the self-dumping type and will scoop up the gravel and sand and then empty it in deep water. Colonel Steese is now in Washington D.C. to look after the appropriation. Major L.E. Oliver is now in Seattle to arrange for the dredge. Work will start in the spring. Delegate Dan Sutherland, who a...
To the Editor: I just read a letter to the editor where a subscriber laments a person being charged with reckless driving instead of assault IV. I have been out of law enforcement for many more years than I care to think about so I may be all wet, but in my day reckless driving was a much more serious offense than assault IV. Memory fades but I recall reckless driving as being a misdemeanor criminal offense punishable by up to a year in jail, a fine of $1,000 and 10 points on your driving record. Assault IV typically got a 10 day suspended...
To the Editor: It has recently come to my attention that there has been some talk in Petersburg implying that Raliegh Cook and his wife Marsha have befriended me in order to obtain some type of advantage. Absolutely nothing could be further from the truth. My wife and I have known Raliegh Cook since he was about ten years old and have been friends with him ever since. Plotting to take some type of advantage over us is completely out of character for him. All the many years we have known him he has been totally honest and shown himself to be...
To the Editor: Last week I received a call that was the worst of my life. It was from the Tlingit Haida Tribal Business Corporation who said they plan to build a cell tower on their newly purchased lot at Papke’s. We share the same lot line. He wanted to know if I had “any concerns.” I was and remain stunned. I told him my home is my life. The main part of my home is the windows and view of nature. If you take take away that view with a massive tower at my door, you take away my life. And the lives of all my neighbors who surround their cell...
To the Editor: A couple years ago, I got sick-and-tired of consuming most standard news stories. I chose to learn about the UFO disclosure movement, which was then a developing story. Since then, I have immersed myself in the UFO-world. Among other things, I have studied skepticism about UFOs, the history of UFO reports both globally and within the USA, the interaction of the UFO topic with American culture, and attempts to scientifically explain UFO behavior. An understanding of each of these subtopics is required in order to fully grasp why...
