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Last Tuesday twelve Petersburg youth, ages 12-15, paddled away from Blaquiere Point, the southeast tip of Mitkof Island, on a four day, three night ORCA Kayak Expedition with Onward and Upward. Three Onward and Upward instructors traveled to Petersburg to lead the trip along with Katie Holmlund, Youth Program Coordinator for Petersburg Medical Center and the co-founder of Kinderskog. "Amanda Mantovani was our lead instructor. She used to work for Alaska Crossings down in Wrangell and has led...
A $38.6 million federal grant will help lower the cost of energy-saving heat pumps for an estimated 6,100 Alaska households stretching from Ketchikan to Kodiak. The money will provide rebates of between $4,000 and $8,500 per household for the purchase and installation of a heat pump. The funding is in addition to federal tax credits of up to $2,000 per household. The federal grant for coastal Alaska, announced July 22, will go to the Southeast Conference, a community and economic development...
Last year, Dr. Jennifer Hyer took a sabbatical from her full-time role at PMC as a primary care physician and her family embarked on a global sailing adventure - a "lifelong dream" in the making. And now, despite being thousands of miles away at sea, Hyer is able to continue serving patients in Petersburg through remote telehealth consultations. Petersburg Medical Center is embracing telehealth services so patients can access specialized care in a remote setting. Telehealth appointments are...
August 1, 1924 – Petersburg claims to have the best postmaster in Alaska. No matter what hour a boat comes in, Sunday or any other holiday, it is soon in the boxes after being received in the post office. In any other employment, save that of the government, such faithful service would bring its own reward. Measuring the pay they get, postmasters can hardly be blamed sometimes for not working except as required by the regulations. Postmaster Otness, however, has the old fashioned idea that he is here to serve the public. Such public servants a...
They may be out of sight to the general public but they are never out of mind for the U.S. Forest Service. The agency maintains 35 mountaintop repeater towers within the Tongass National Forest to provide radio coverage for their field crews and first responders. A contractor is installing new repeater stations at five sites this summer in the Wrangell and Petersburg ranger districts, part of an ongoing effort to switch out older units with newer models. Of particular importance to Wrangell, a...
Supporters of Alaska’s ranked choice election system are asking the Alaska Supreme Court to rule on one final attempt to keep a repeal measure from this November’s election ballot. Earlier this month, Anchorage Superior Court Judge Christina Rankin ruled that there was insufficient evidence to disqualify the measure from a statewide vote. While Rankin disqualified some signatures from a petition seeking to force a repeal vote, a recount by the Alaska Division of Elections confirmed that enough signatures remain for that vote to take place. On T... Full story
July 24 – Crystal Lyons was arrested for alleged assault, third degree. Shame Marsden was served a summons for allegedly furnishing alcohol to minors. An officer attempted a welfare check on Surf Street, but the described individual had departed the area. An officer responded to a report of suspicious activity on South Nordic Drive and determined it was non-criminal. An officer responded to a report of suspicious activity in South Harbor but was unable to locate the described individuals. July 25 – An officer assisted Emergency Medical Ser...
More than $600,000 was returned to the Ketchikan Gateway Borough last week after the borough’s bank, Wells Fargo, successfully retrieved an accidental Electronic Fund Transfer that the borough made to a fraudulent account earlier this year. Charlanne Thomas, the borough’s Finance Director said that in May, the borough was notified by Wells Fargo that it potentially sent money to a fraudulent checking account at Citibank after attempting to pay for the Dudley Field turf project. The contractor’s email account had been hacked by the scamm...
The Biden administration has rejected a nominee for a key Alaska fisheries management post who could have tipped decisions toward the interests of tribes and conservation groups and away from the priorities of the large-boat, Seattle-based trawl industry. U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo skipped over the top choice of Washington Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee, conservation advocate Becca Robbins Gisclair, and instead reappointed the last-ranked nominee on a slate of four candidates that Inslee offered: Anne Vanderhoeven, a trawl industry...
Boaters visiting LeConte Bay last Friday encountered numerous orcas including this large bull....
A cyanide spill at a major gold mine in the Yukon Territory — high in the Yukon River watershed — has sparked widespread concern in Canada. But Alaska salmon advocates say the mishap isn’t just a problem for Yukoners: The spill happened upstream of a tributary of the Yukon River. The Yukon is Alaska’s biggest transboundary waterway, and residents along its shores who have depended on salmon for generations are already suffering amid crashes of multiple species. Officials on both sides of the border say it’s too early to know the full impact of...
Judy Forgey - treasurer of the Muskeg Maleriers, the local rosemaling group who hosted the class - shows off the progress on her door crown on the third day of Kim Garrett's rosemaling class. Founded in 1974, the Maleriers have worked on several large-scale rosemaling projects in Petersburg, including the Sons of Norway Hall shutters and interior, Hammer and Wikan's 36-foot-wide panel, and numerous downtown storefronts....
Youth kayakers get a head start on the rest of the competition during the 10th Annual Pedal/Paddle Battle on July 27, 2024, in Petersburg. The annual event raised a total of $17,040 in donations for local education and medical employees. This year's race included a total of 60 participants, 38 bikers, 21 paddlers and 1 runner....
So, you want to see bears at the Anan Wildlife Observatory. But maybe you couldn't get one of the limited number of permits, or you live out of town and can't make the trip, or maybe you are a little more afraid of them than you care to admit. But now, thanks to the U.S. Forest Service, explore.org and 14 Wrangell high school students in the T3 Program, anyone worldwide can view Anan's fish-crazed black and brown bears. Last week, after months of preparation, planning and prototyping, the two...
Wrangell is not immune to the nationwide shortage of electrical transformers, and the delivery delay has pushed back the borough’s sale of 20 lots at the residential subdivision near 6-Mile Zimovia Highway until the spring. The borough wants to wait until the streets and utilities are finished at the property before opening access to the land for potential buyers to evaluate which lots they may want to buy. The transformers and buried electrical lines are part of the work. The land sale had been tentatively planned for late summer or fall, b...
