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A dozen teenagers returned to Petersburg on July 22 after a weeklong kayak trip learning how to paddle, fly-fish and lead as a team. The group kayaked and camped along the southern coast of Mitkof Island, exploring from Woodpecker Cove to Point Alexander. They were led by certified instructors from Petersburg Medical Center and the outdoor education group Onward & Upward as their guides, teaching outdoor safety skills. "Adventure wilderness expeditions changed who I am as a person, honestly...
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King salmon fishing is back on for nonresident sport anglers in Southeast Alaska, effective Monday, Aug. 4, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has announced. Chinook retention has been closed since July 7 for nonresidents fishing in Southeast. Fish and Game said at the beginning of July that it would be putting an indefinite pause on out-of-state residents’ harvest because the sport sector was on track to exceed the regionwide sport harvest target for Chinook. The July 7 closure was geared at providing uninterrupted harvest opportunity f...
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced his policy priorities for the Alaska State Legislature for when they reconvene for a special session scheduled to start on Saturday. On Monday, the governor called for legislators to address what he called "Alaska's chronic education outcome crisis" and to reconsider his executive order they had previously voted down, creating a new Department of Agriculture that he said would strengthen food security in Alaska. Separately, the Alaska State Legislature... Full story
In recent weeks, users of the popular Hungry Point Trail system have noticed with some alarm trees coming down, a road being built, and the closure of the trail's Sandy Beach Road trailhead – all necessary for the wastewater utility's Pump Station 4 replacement project. "Folks need to be aware that [the trailhead] is going to be probably closed more than it's going to be open for the next few months," Public Works Director Chris Cotta told the Pilot. "We won't be opening things back up permanent...
July 31, 1925 – Owing to the great fleet of boats this year engaged in trolling for king salmon, it is said there are more boats than king salmon and that very little money has been made by individual fishermen as a rule. As the result, some of the trolling boats have been beating it to the Cape Flattery fishing grounds off the Washington coast. Among these boats are both Alaska and outside boats. Nels Sandvick of Petersburg recently laid up his boat here and left for Flattery with Oscar Hendricks on the Bernice. It is claimed by fishermen t...
The federal government will be releasing billions of dollars in education funding this week, including $46 million in Alaska, after freezing the funds last month. The Trump administration announced in late June that the funding was being withheld pending a review. Multiple advocacy groups and school districts sued the Trump Administration, including some in Alaska. Last week, the U.S. Department of Education announced that it would be releasing the frozen funding. Part of that funding is Title I-C funding for migrant education. A quarter of...
To the Editor: At the July 21, 2025, assembly meeting, I should have recused myself on the vote regarding the application by Mr. Ohmer to purchase property on Haugen. I didn’t. I should have and I was wrong. Prior to that meeting, I had studied the agenda and thoughtfully considered if this proposal in particular would be a conflict of interest for me. I determined it was not as it would not benefit me financially, substantially or otherwise, regardless of whether or not this proposal passed or not. What I failed to do in this situation was con...
Petersburg electric customers will see a 1.4-cent per kilowatt hour fuel adjustment charge on their July bills to account for seven days of around the clock diesel generator use during Southeast Alaska Power Agency’s hydro maintenance shutdown in June. For a typical residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours monthly, the adjustment would add about $14 to their bill, according to Petersburg Borough Utility Director Karl Hagerman. Petersburg consumed more electricity during this year’s shutdown period than during the 2024 shutdown. With the...
July 23 - A bear was reported on Howkan Street. A bear was reported on Queen Street. A bear was reported on N 12th Street. An officer responded to a report of a bear on 6th Street. An officer responded to a disturbance on S 2nd Street. A bear was reported on Queen Street. July 24 - A bear was reported on Sandy Beach and Jenny Lane. A bear was reported on Kiseno Street. A disturbance was reported on S Nordic Drive. Suspicious behavior was reported at the ball field. A wallet was found and turned into the Police Department (PD). An officer...
The Right Reverend Mark Lattime, Episcopal Bishop of Alaska, was in Petersburg last Friday to hold the final service at St. Andrew's church on the corner of Excel and Third Streets, familiar to many as the longtime home of the Mitkof Dance Troupe, a non-profit dance program for children from pre-school through high school. St. Andrew's, established in 1949, has always had a small congregation and has for many years relied on Rector Dawn Allen-Herron's traveling from Ketchikan to Petersburg once...
Petersburg Medical Center will lose nearly $1 million in expected federal tax credits after the federal reconciliation bill retroactively eliminated a one-third portion of the delayed COVID-era employee assistance funding the hospital was eligible to receive. The hospital had applied for around $3 million through the Employee Retention Tax Credit program but will now receive only two-thirds of that amount due to passage of “the one big, beautiful bill,” Chief Financial Officer Jason McCormick told the hospital board Thursday. The leg...
The last time Petersburg's Little League major squad had an all-star team was 2018. Seven years later though, the all-star team formed again and traveled to the Alaska District 2 Tournament in Juneau. This year's all-star squad was a combined showcase with six players making the team on Petersburg's side and then Wrangell filling out the rest of the team. "Wrangell mentioned [joining to form an all-star team] before, but we never moved forward with it, and this is the first year that I can...
The administration of Gov. Mike Dunleavy has signed a $28.5 million contract for work on a new ferry terminal north of Juneau, days after an oversight board said the state had not proved that the project is economically viable. Dunleavy administration officials say the new terminal at Cascade Point, located 30 miles north of an existing terminal in Auke Bay, will cut ferry time from Juneau to Haines and Skagway by two hours. But the chair of the Alaska Marine Highway Operations Board — which was created by Dunleavy four years ago — says the...
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