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<title><![CDATA[State Champions]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Winning a single championship is hard to do. Winning two championships is a monumental task. In 2025, the PHS girls cross country team placed third, not bad but not quite to the standard they&apos;ve set. This year, they&apos;re queens of the Division III mountain once again, reclaiming the title from 2024. The girls team&apos;s greatest challenge was going to be Wrangell, who was led by...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Petersburg voters pass senior tax exemption, block increase of sales tax cap, and elect Newman, Stanton-Gregor, and Marsh to assembly]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[By the time Petersburg&apos;s polls closed on Tuesday night, 1,120 ballots had been cast and counted. That&apos;s about 160 fewer than last year. The preliminary results remain unofficial until the election is canvassed. Ballot propositions Three questions were on Petersburg&apos;s municipal ballot this year. Proposition 1 came from the Borough&apos;s power department, and authorizes a $3.3...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yesterday's News]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[October 8, 1926 – Councilman Ohmer reported that he had written to Colonel J. G. Steese, chairman of the Alaskan Engineering Commission, concerning the speed with which steamers not calling in Petersburg proceed through the Wrangell Narrows. Upon several occasions recently steamers passing through have done so at a considerable speed, the wakes they threw up causing damage to small boats moored at...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[PIA ceremony to honor ancestors repatriated for burial]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[To the Editor]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Volunteers needed To the Editor: Petersburg Rod and Gun Club is looking for volunteers to help with free firearms safety and etiquette clinics for high school hunters. Discussion items will include firearm safety, their transportation, cleaning and more. Parents should know that their children and their friends are as prepared as possible when handling firearms and that the proper handling of...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Commentary]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[If Pinocchio had been in the room, his nose might have grown long enough to equal several of the 115,000 sections of 40-foot steel pipe that would be needed to construct the mythical mirage of the Alaska North Slope natural gas pipeline project that has mesmerized state leaders for decades. There were that many lies spewed in the Oval Office during President Donald Trump’s Sept. 30 announcement th...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Police report]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[September 30 – An officer conducted foot patrols downtown. A complainant spoke with dispatch. An officer responding to a complaint of barking dogs on S 2nd St heard no sounds of barking in the area. Brandon Johnson was arrested in North Harbor for allegedly violating conditions of release. A driver on N Nordic Dr was issued a warning for failure to maintain their lane. An officer spoke with a comp...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Assembly approves Tidal Network subdivision at 1200 Haugen Drive]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Petersburg Borough Assembly on Monday overturned the Planning Commission&apos;s denial of a minor subdivision at 1200 Haugen Drive, moving the Central Council of the Tlingit &amp; Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska a step closer to buying the borough lot next to the fire hall where it plans a broadband tower. Sitting as the Board of Adjustment, the Assembly voted 6-0 to grant Tlingit &amp;...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Alaska Timber and Truss lands $2.5M to retool Falls Creek Road mill]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Alaska Timber and Truss has secured a $2.5 million financing package to modernize its sawmill on Falls Creek Road, connect it to Petersburg&apos;s hydroelectric grid and install an additional mill built to process young-growth timber. Co-owner Brett Martin said the goal is to have the expanded operation running well by the middle of next summer. &quot;We&apos;re taking a gamble,&quot; Martin...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Young PHS volleyball squad ready to take the next step]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[New beginnings for this year&apos;s Petersburg High School Volleyball squad. The team is transitioning from being led by now former head coach Jaime Cabral to now being coached by former assistant Kerri Curtiss. This also means that Petersburg alumna Kaia Dahl-Thomassen is now the main assistant. This year&apos;s team boasts 12 varsity players and half are freshmen (Anya Curtiss, Lucia Worhatch,...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Community fills the Empty Bowls]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[State fishing loan program could see higher interest rates next summer]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Running your own commercial fishing operation may offer more freedom, but that freedom comes at a premium. That cost can make it particularly hard for those looking to enter the industry or update their fleet. The Alaska Department of Commerce investments division held a public session in Wrangell on Sept. 16 to share information with potential borrowers and check in with current ones. The...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Wrangell will get $43 million federal grant for 6-Mile, waterfront and flume]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Wrangell’s efforts to add to its downtown waterfront, develop the former 6-Mile Mill property for a possible shipyard and replace its leaking water diversion flume to the community reservoirs will receive a $43 million boost from the federal government. The borough applied this past spring for a federal Economic Development Administration Industry Transformation Pathway Grant. The official announc...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[More capacity coming as Alaska Airlines retires older planes]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Alaska Airlines will retire its fleet of Boeing 737-700 aircraft next year, switching over to larger 800 Series planes — providing more passenger and cargo capacity, particularly on Southeast Alaska runs. Alaska generally uses the 700 on its multi-stop flights through Southeast, such as the morning “milk run” from Seattle to Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau and Anchorage, and back again in...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Legals]]></title>
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