Articles from the July 23, 2020 edition
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Final emergency ordinance vote deferred
The Petersburg Borough Assembly voted on Monday to postpone the third reading of the civil...
Petersburg on track for wettest summer
Petersburg is currently experiencing its fourth wettest summer, with the potential of becoming the...
Zero active cases of Covid-19 in town
There have been zero active cases of COVID-19 in town since Thursday, July 16 when the Petersburg...
SEAPA issues intent to award bid for submarine cable
The Southeast Alaska Power Agency Board of Directors has awarded a bid for the replacement of a...
Borough Clerk: May, June meetings valid
After the expiration of an emergency ordinance on April 30 that allowed the borough assembly to set...
Assembly approves in-person voting
The borough assembly voted in favor of having an in-person municipal election this fall at their...
Some AK cities decline to mandate masks amid virus
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The largest city in Alaska has mandated residents wear masks in public to limit the spread of COVID-19, but several other c...
Police report
July 15 — A welfare check was conducted on a resident at Northwind Apartments. A disturbance at the ball field was reported to authorities. Authoritie...
Clarification
In the Police Report of the July 9, 2020 issue of the Petersburg Pilot, Oliver Christensen was reported as having been arrested on charges of driving...
Google removes Alaska trooper ad in 'misunderstanding'
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Department of Public Safety accused Google of censorship for canceling a recruitment advertisement for state t...
New food security project starting up in Wrangell
WRANGELL - "Concern" is a common theme in the COVID-19 pandemic. People are concerned about their...
7.8 Magnitude quake shakes Alaska Penninsula Tuesday night
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A powerful earthquake off Alaska’s southern coast shook sparsely populated coastal communities late Tuesday and prompted som...
Petition seeks endangered species status for Alaska wolves
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A conservation group has filed a petition seeking endangered species status for a subspecies of Alaska wolves. The Center for B...
Seafood is Alaska's top export, source of state's largest manufacturing base
Most Alaskans are surprised to learn that seafood is by far Alaska’s top export, the source of the state’s largest manufacturing base and its #1 pri...
Corps to release review of Alaska mine project this week
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) —The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to release its final environmental review of a proposed copper and gold mine near the h...
Cigarette butt cleanup
Liam Jackson shows off the cigarette butts he collected on July 16 as part of Petersburg Indian...
Good hygiene, no social distancing
A buck on a Wrangell Narrows beach grooms itself on July 18, while a second buck pretends not to...
Letters to the Editor
Can't afford boondoggle To the Editor: Senator Stedman's diatribe defending his second road to...
Editorial: Just lucky
2,132 Alaskans are reported infected with the Covid-19 virus along with 487 non-residents as of...
Lonely hunter
A lone wolf was seen chasing two deer at Blind Slough earlier this month. The deer were able to get...
At the top
The end of the Raven Trail loops around a giant muskeg hole. To the right of the muskeg hole is a...
Yesterday's News
July 23, 1920 The Petersburg City Council has decided to increase the present capacity of the light plant before the coming winter, the details to be...
