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On Friday, David and Britni Woolley managed to go where few ever can, navigating their mini jet skiff through the labyrinth of ice and the hidden channels of the Baird glacial outwash plain to boat all the way to the terminus face of Baird Glacier....
The Petersburg Borough Assembly unanimously approved moving forward with a $700,000 sewer line repair project at the Petersburg Aquatic Center during its Monday meeting. The vote authorizes the borough to seek bids for replacing approximately 150 feet of sewer lines beneath the slab concrete floors of the aquatic center's locker rooms, where drains have become disconnected from the main sewer system. "We have a few lines, especially in the family locker room, that are plugged completely with...
The new Wellness, Education, Research, and Communications (WERC) building opened its doors this month, marking the completion of the first major phase of Petersburg Medical Center's hospital replacement project. And according to PMC CEO Phil Hofstetter, the success of this facility has already changed how he's thinking about the rest of the project. "This is just step one," Hofstetter told the Pilot on a recent tour of the 15,000-square-foot building. He will be the first to say that the slow...
Fisheries managers cut short this summer's Southeast Alaska commercial dungeness crab season by six days because initial harvest projections fell below the required threshold for a full season. But now, after determining that a high number of soft-shelled crabs contributed to low harvest projections, managers have opted to open fall dungeness fishing for its full length. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced Monday that the fall dungeness crab season in Southeast Alaska will proceed f...
August 21, 1925 – The Sales Inn will open to the public Saturday evening at 10 o’clock. There will be dancing and music and eats and everything. Jack Sales, who owns a chicken ranch in the new addition to Petersburg, has been working on the building for a year past. It was first two stories high, but when the framework was up a small cyclone came along and riled it up in ruins. The present building is one story high with hardwood floors for dancing and a large general dining room. There are also large dining rooms for private parties. Mr. Sales...
At the Petersburg fire station, Heather Bauscher sat waiting for an ambulance. She had a fake tourniquet on her arm, representing a lost limb. "I've got a small amount of time before I go into shock," she said. "So as soon as we get there, I'll start a timer, and they'll have a little bit of time to figure out what's going on with me." Bauscher was one of about a dozen Petersburg community members acting as victims in a staged mass casualty drill on Aug. 16. The drill, which was organized by Petersburg Emergency Services Director Aaron Hankins... Full story
History Echoes To the Editor: August 23rd is observed in many European countries as a day of remembrance for one of the most cynical political actions in Western history and is recognized by many, including our Canadian neighbors, as Black Ribbon Day. This Saturday marks the 86th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between the Stalinist Soviet Union and Hitler’s Nazi Germany. A secret portion of this mutual non-aggression treaty was an agreement between the two powers to partition the independent countries that lay between them. The G...
Help Wanted: Unique opportunity to lead the largest state in the country, with more miles of coastline, taller mountains, more fish and game, more dreams and less reality than those other 49 pipsqueaks. Dynamic, convincing decision maker with strong personality needed to lead the second youngest state in the nation into the future, albeit without enough money to meet all its needs. It’s a fixer-upper job; the current employee has let a lot of things go bad, never learned to get along with co-workers, and hasn’t been working all that hard. Whi...
August 12 - An officer assisted Emergency Medical Services (EMS). An officer responded to a disturbance on N Nordic Drive. An officer conducted a welfare check on N Nordic Drive. An officer assisted a citizen with some concerns on S 4th Street. Extra patrols were requested on Sandy Beach Road. A report was made of a dog barking for hours on Sandy Beach Road. An officer responded to suspicious activity on S 2nd Street. It was unfounded. It was reported that a bear might have been in the area of S 2nd Street. An officer conducted extra patrols....
A deteriorating baseball dugout that had been gathering moss and rot at Petersburg's ball field has found new life as a much-needed weather shelter at the Banana Point boat launch. Back in March, Public Works employee Martin Odegaard was dropping his child off at Banana Point to catch the boat to Wrangell for a wrestling trip on a typically miserable late-winter day. "It was pissing rain, as it always is this time of year," Odegaard recalled. "And so all these kids are getting soaking wet. I'm...
Part of a wastewater line in Frederick Sound has broken, and the Petersburg Borough must repair it to comply with an upcoming Environmental Protection Agency permit. The pipe, known as the outfall line, discharges wastewater from Petersburg's treatment plant into Frederick Sound. Wastewater Operations Supervisor Justin Haley said that a part of the pipe called the diffuser has fallen off. The diffuser distributes the wastewater at different places in the water, where ocean currents dilute it further in a "mixing zone." Right now, wastewater is... Full story
Three candidates are now vying for two Petersburg Borough Assembly seats as the candidate filing deadline approaches, with incumbent Donna Marsh joined by challengers Raliegh Cook and Bob Martin. Assembly member Scott Newman, whose term is up this fall, remains the only candidate for mayor, seeking to replace Mark Jensen, who announced in June he would not seek reelection after 18 years in elected office. Fifteen candidates have submitted paperwork to Borough Clerk Rebecca Regula since the...
Coming off of strong swimming seasons Bella and Tori Miller continued to kick fast this summer when they competed at the 77th Annual Keo Nakama swim meet – a legendary invitational in Honolulu, Hawaii that attractions some of the best swim clubs from around the country and even some from overseas – and in Anchorage at the Northern Lights Swim Club (NLSC) at the 2025 Conoco Phillips Alaska Summer Long Course Championships. There wasn't a lot of training time possible for these meets. "Just for a...
In Petersburg, more than 50 people gathered on Aug. 15 in front of the Federal Building downtown to protest the welcome by President Donald Trump in Anchorage of Russian President Vladimir Putin who has an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity including the abduction of thousands of Ukrainian children. Across the state, thousands more Alaskans participated in similar protests, expressing solidarity with Ukraine....
Wrangell Police Chief Gene Meek has started a public safety campaign to enforce new e-scooter regulations through education and enforcement. The police department posted a safety video Monday, Aug. 11, on YouTube and other social media platforms. The video demonstrates proper scooter operation, hand signals, safety lighting and traffic law compliance. “I think the immediate concern is getting the scooters off of public sidewalks,” Meek said. “With this being an older community, having someo...
A group seeking to decriminalize Alaskans’ use of certain medicinal mushrooms and other psychedelics can start collecting signatures to try to put the question before voters. Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom, who oversees the Alaska Division of Elections, said Thursday she has certified a statewide initiative application that proposes legal but regulated use of certain natural medicines for therapeutic and traditional purposes. The sponsors may now start gathering the petition signatures they need to place their initiative on a statewide ballot. The p...
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