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The Little Norway Festival returns for 62nd year
After last year's festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 62nd annual Little...
Breakthrough COVID-19 cases found in Alaska
Between Feb. 1 and March 31, Alaska Department of Health and Social Services identified 152...
Three cases of virus identified
Three cases of COVID-19 were identified within a single household over the course of two days this...
Baseball team to focus on reducing errors
After traveling to Juneau last weekend to play against Juneau-Douglas High School in a series of...
State reports 72% vaccination rate for Petersburg
On Tuesday, the state reported 72.94 percent of Petersburg residents had at least one dose of the...
Proposed budget ups millage rate
The Borough Assembly reviewed the proposed fiscal year 2022 budget at a work session on April 21,...
PMC faces monthly losses in 2021
Since January, Petersburg Medical Center has been operating with a negative bottom line, but...
PHS ranked #1 high school in Alaska
Petersburg High School was ranked the number one high school in Alaska in terms of academic success...
Vikings build experience in 2nd set of baseball games
The Petersburg High School played their second series of the season against Ketchikan High School on...
Two wrestlers qualify for State
Two Petersburg High School wrestlers will head to the Alaska School Activities Association Wrestling...
PHS runners take first place
The Petersburg High School track and field team participated in their first meet of the season on...
Hammer & Wikan celebrates 100 years
Hammer & Wikan, Inc. kicked off a year's worth of celebrations on April 17 with their Founder's Day...
A second retirement
In 2000, Richard Sprague sold his practice and retired, but two years later he was back in his offic...
Interstate travelers not required to test for COVID
The Borough Assembly approved an amendment to the interstate and international travel mandate on...
Four active cases of COVID-19 in town
Five cases of COVID-19 were reported in the community in the last seven days, one of which has been...
PMC to keep vaccinating with Pfizer, Moderna vaccines
Petersburg Medical Center Director of Nursing Jennifer Bryner said at the COVID-19 community update...
Intrastate travel mandate now a health alert
Anyone arriving in Petersburg from another Alaskan community are no longer mandated to test for...
PHS baseball has first games in two years
The Petersburg High School baseball team played their first games of the year in a preseason...
Preliminary land decision issued
The State of Alaska is proposing to convey and reject land selected by the Petersburg Borough in...
Patrick Wilson to retire from OBI
Since the fall of 1989, Patrick Wilson has been the plant manager for Icicle Seafoods, later OBI...
OBI hires new plant manager
Nikolai Wendel has taken over as plant manager at OBI Seafoods, bringing 13 years of cannery experie...
Start of cruise ship season pushed to June
The Petersburg Borough will have to wait until June 2 to see its first cruise ship of the season...
1.26 million pounds of tanner crab harvest in SE
The 2021 tanner crab harvest in Southeast Alaska was the fourth largest tanner harvest in the last...
Cannery employed locals for crab season
OBI Seafoods employed about 90 local residents for the 2021 tanner crab season in an effort to...
Changes to health mandates to go before assembly
The local Emergency Operations Center will be presenting the Borough Assembly with recommendations t...
