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Southeast Alaska's commercial red king crab fishery will open Nov. 1 after stock assessments revealed the highest red crab populations in decades. Last week, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced a regionwide guideline harvest level of 211,573 pounds for the 2025/2026 season, exceeding the 200,000-pound threshold required for a traditional competitive commercial fishery. The biomass numbers and the available surplus for harvest, came as somewhat of a surprise to fishery managers fishermen who had been preparing for a different type o...
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The 2025 Southeast Alaska Purse Seine Fishery closed in early September with just under 20 million pink salmon landed - well below the forecast of 29 million and marking the lowest odd-year harvest since the 1980s. "Fair to say that the season was a disappointment as far as pink salmon harvest goes," said Troy Thynes, Alaska Department of Fish and Game Region I Management Coordinator. The disappointing harvest adds pressure to an industry already facing high fuel costs, inflation, and low...
There are several contested races in the Oct. 7 borough election. Check out the sample ballots published in this week’s paper to review who is running and to read the ballot proposition asking voters whether Petersburg’s senior sales tax exemption should be limited to low-income seniors only. This Monday, Sept. 15, a live call-in show on the ballot proposition will be broadcast on KFSK at 12:30 p.m. The radio station’s newsroom invites those with questions on the ballot proposition to call in during the show to (907) 772-3808 or email quest...
September 11, 1925 – The Petersburg schools show a large increase in enrollment this year. The elementary school’s enrollment has grown by 27 per cent and the high school will be the largest Petersburg has ever had with an increased enrollment of nearly 100 per cent. A great many of the additional pupils are children of people who have moved to Petersburg during the summer, demonstrating that the town is growing from without. Petersburg is now one of the largest Territorial schools, surpassed in numbers only by Ketchikan, Juneau, Anchorage and...
Petersburg Medical Center is launching a new cohort of its on-the-job training Certified Nursing Assistant program next Monday, offering people in Petersburg a valuable opportunity to get paid while earning a professional healthcare certification in just five weeks. "We hire people who say they want to become a CNA, and then we pay them while they're taking the class," explained Chief Nursing Officer Jennifer Bryner. "At the end of the class, if it's a good match, then we would offer a... Full story
Our communities in this vast state are connected by the stories we share. Whether through the radio airwaves or the pages of a local newspaper, journalism helps us understand one another and navigate day-to-day life in Alaska. But journalism in all forms is under threat and it’s a threat we can’t afford to ignore. The Alaska News Coalition is a nonprofit formed by a volunteer board of current and former journalists to protect the economic sustainability of our state’s newsrooms and to support local news organizations with the financial, techn...
To the Editor: As I recall, about 60% of Petersburg residents voted for Trump and Begich in the last election. Thanks to those two and the GOP mega bill dozens, if not many more, local residents may lose access to their current healthcare benefits as a result of the $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts. Local Forest Service employees were laid off, then some re-hired. Similar chaos was widespread in other agencies. It was only due to timely intervention by Senator Murkowski that Federal Fishing Permits were issued as scheduled for the opening day of...
September 3 - Annual Sex Offender Registration completed. An officer responded and conducted a traffic stop at 3-½ Mile Mitkof Hwy. The situation was non-criminal. An officer responded to a report of a strange smell in the area of S 3rd Street. The odor or possible source could not be located. Suspicious activity was reported on S 2nd Street. A bar check was conducted on Chief John Lott Street. An officer contacted motorcyclists who were making constant noise and riding in the area of Mill & Scow Bay Waterline access Roads. Riders ceased...
On the Three Lakes trail system south of Petersburg, hikers can follow miles of mostly boardwalk pathways around lakes and trees that lead deep into the Tongass National Forest on Mitkof Island. Some sections of the trail system got upgraded this summer, with help from seasonal workers contracted by the U.S. Forest Service. Recreation Specialist Tyler Shaw said some of the wooden boards that make up the Three Lakes trail system were installed in the 90s. That style of trail is called...
On a cold, cloudy Friday at Petersburg's Sandy Beach Park, Vivian Yéilk' Mork poured locally picked red huckleberries and water into a blender. Mork wasn't making a smoothie, though, she was trying to do the opposite. "Now, you don't want to turn it full on when you do it," Mork explained, gently pulsing the blender as she inspected the pulp inside. "Because you're just wanting to separate the flesh from the seeds." Mork was teaching a class on berry propagation, a way of growing new plants...
Whether it's online strangers sending kids messages in Roblox, scammers phishing for passwords, or artificial intelligence platforms targeting young people with relationships that can distort how an entire generation views human connection - families with children and teens are facing new kinds of online safety challenges. New digital dangers exist as the results of tools and devices that "were released to the public without long-term studies or clear guidelines, leaving families and schools to...
Each Southeast troll fisherman can harvest another 15 Chinook salmon during a “limited harvest fishery” opening that’s set to begin Thursday, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced Monday. In the ten-day fishery, which is the third limited harvest opening of the summer season, trollers can take about 5,400 Chinook that remain in the allocation for all the commercial gear groups that harvest Chinook in Southeast. By state regulation, ADF&G at the end of the summer season may give trollers the opportunity to harvest any Chinook alloc...
The Petersburg High School Cross Country team continued to surge through the season, with the latest stop being the Metlakatla Invitational this past weekend where the Petersburg girls team finished first overall and the boys team took second. "The girls, they really do have that chemistry, they all are really close. I really think that has something to do with winning this meet and also working hard in practices," said assistant coach Keely Ware. "All of them push each other and they're always...
New season, new personal bests for the Petersburg High School Swim and Dive team this past weekend — with several swimmers attaining new PRs — in their first meet of the season in Craig. “I didn’t really have real clear expectations but they raced real well,” head coach Andy Carlisle said. “Everybody got at least one PR.” Petersburg senior swimmer Logan Tow got out to a strong start in his first meet, setting a new personal record in the boys 50 freestyle, with a time of 22 seconds, an improvement of -0.53 seconds and the men’s 100 freestyle,...
Marvin Eldon Ronimous was born in Harrisburg, Missouri, on September 17, 1937, to Brookies Nina Forbis and Charles Cecil Ronimous. He had four siblings, Holland, Anna, Sarah and Carolyn. After graduating from the Harrisburg public schools Marvin met the love of his life Helen Louise Goldon and they were married on August 17, 1956. He was 19 and she was 16 and they wanted a family right away. Helen Louise was born in 1957, Marvetta Lynn in 1958, and Marvin Eldon Jr. in 1959 while Marvin worked...
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New York's Manhattan Island is surrounded by the East River, the Harlem River, and the Hudson River - all three are tidal estuaries that create a natural 28.5-mile open water course around the island. In 1915, a lone swimmer first completed this circuit, now known as the 20 Bridges Swim, and since then only around 1,400 endurance athletes have successfully finished the marathon swim. On August 24, Abbey Jackson Ferree, of Petersburg, completed the 20 Bridges Swim in eight hours and 51 minutes -...
A regional tribe wants to buy around 10,000 square feet of Petersburg Borough-owned property near the town's Fire Hall. The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, a federally recognized tribe based in Juneau, has applied to the borough to purchase the plot off Haugen Drive. The tribe wants to build a wireless tower there next summer to provide internet service and expand cell coverage in Petersburg. The Petersburg Borough Assembly considered the tribe's application...
After 35 years working in local public radio - 27 years as general manager of KFSK in Petersburg - Tom Abbott has reached retirement. It'll just require a bit more crisis management before he can fully clock out. In an interview with the Pilot, Abbott said he provided KFSK's board of directors a resignation letter last year, with 18 months built in to pass the torch to the station's next manager. He hoped a successor could be hired and would arrive by this summer and the two could work together...
September 4, 1925 – Probably no better concrete example of the value of the herring industry to Alaska, when handled by Alaskans, could be given than to cite the operations of the Ness Fish Company of Petersburg, which, during its 5-weeks operation here this summer expended some $12,000, practically all of which was spent here. This company put up herring for food which goes to consumers in the middle west. It made another shipment of 200 barrels on the Rogers Thursday, consigned to the Birdseth Fish Company of Fargo, North Dakota. Previous s...
It’s back-to-school shopping season in Petersburg, and for many kids, that means it’s time to try on new shoes. But not every family can afford new shoes every year. That’s where Lee’s Clothing, a family-owned store on Petersburg’s main street, comes in. The business maintains a “shoe fund” for families in need, which helps pay for one new pair of shoes per child. The program started a decade ago, when a woman who wanted to be anonymous came into Lee’s Clothing and asked if any kids in town needed new shoes. Heidi Lee, who helps run the store,...
August 27 - An officer responded to a report of motor vehicle damage on Gjoa Street. An officer responded to a parking complaint on S Nordic Drive. An officer responded to a parking complaint on S 2nd Street. Officers responded to an assault on S 3rd Street. An officer assisted Emergency Medical Services (EMS) on Skylark Way. It was reported that a lanyard had been lost on S Nordic Drive. August 28 - An officer responded to a noise complaint at Sandy Beach Park. A lost iPhone was reported on S Nordic Drive. Gerriann Collins, 32, was charged...
