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May 3, 1913 – Sockeye Island Deserted: Some five or six miles from this town, on the North, is what is called Sockeye Island. For several years past this island has been ocupied under lease from the government for fox breeding purposes. Fox breeding, with the prevailing high price for furs, made the business quite profitable. As a matter of fact, thousands of dollars were made out of the fox ranch the first few years. Three years ago, after the owner had taken what furs he wanted, some fifteen foxes were left to breed. One year ago, or such mat...
April 24 Kristinn Thorsteinson, 17, was issued a citation for speeding 63 mile per hour in a 50 mile per hour zone at 6.5 mile Mitkof Highway. Two people refused to leave bar after being disruptive with other patrons. April 26 Orange construction netting was reported blowing loose in the area at N. First Street. Alaska District Attorney requested an application for search warrant for a vehicle in the impound lot and the warrant was issued. An alarm was activated by work being done at the elementary school. April 27 Suspicious activity was...
April 26, 1913 – What we have been wishing for these many years, came along the other day and passed us by. Why? The reason is not far fetched. It lays in the fact that we have no water system. A few days ago, the representative of the International Fisheries Company, who for several months this last winter was located here as a purchasing agent for the company, visited in town while on his way to Sitka, where he goes to establish a cold storage plant and oil station. In answer to the question as to the reason for passing by Petersburg for S...
The Petersburg Borough Assembly met with department heads Monday afternoon in a work session to discuss the proposed 2013-14 fiscal budget. “For the 2013-14 budget, the general fund is presented to the Petersburg Borough Assembly as a balanced budget,” Petersburg Borough Finance Director Jody Tow stated. “Property tax revenue is budgeted to increase due to the new library bond and the proposed budget does not include any increase to the base tax rate of the borough.” Tow also explained that the borough is expecting to receive an additional $193...
Nice when we were trusted To the Editor: The sky didn’t fall when we became a borough. In fact, nothing much seems to have changed at all. The old city limits sign is still in place. The council, er.. the assembly, still meets in the same chambers with the same old city emblem on its bench. There is only one change I’ve noticed. This is my 3rd year as a senior citizen. The first two years I paid for my tax-exempt card. Not once was I asked to show it. I just told them my number or wrote it down. It was nice to be trusted. Now that we are a boro...
April 17 Contractor requested a vehicle be moved for road work on Second and Dolphin Streets. A caller reported a truck with a green cab driving with no bed and the side panels flapping in the breeze on Mitkof Highway. A vehicle was reported crossing the center and snow line on the Libby Straight Stretch. A black, red and silver diamondback mountain bike was taken from a building on N. Nordic Drive. April 18 A disabled vehicle was in the roadway on Falls Creek Road. Department of Transportation requested a courtesy call to the owner of a vehicl...
Due to the need to relocate electrical conduit in the downtown area, there may be some street lights that will not be operational. “We are working with Public Works in order to have some temporary lighting brought in,” Petersburg Borough Manager Steve Giesbrecht said. “We don't want to be without light in that area.” Giesbrecht stated in his regular report that Petersburg Parks and Recreation is working with the Petersburg High School Baseball team to offer the Major League Baseball Pitch, Hit and Run Competition Saturday, May 11. Also during... Full story
April 12, 1913 – Are Bound For Siberia: Will E. Hudson, one of the Post Intelligencer's staff photographer, travelling on the boat Polar Bear, Captain Lane, master, together with a Zoological party representing the Smithsonian Institute and Harvard Museum, visited in town several hours Wednesday. Mr. Hudson said that they were on their way North intending to visit the Aleutian Islands, from there will travel by way of Bering sea to Siberia and the Arctic. The Zoological party will be busy gathering up datas for their respective institution w...
Matt McGuan, Project Engineer for DOWL HKM, reported that the concrete pavement has been poured on the east side of Nordic Drive in front of the Trading Union Hardware Store during a road construction progress meeting Tuesday afternoon. “SECON has completed the installation of the storm drain pipe and structures on the Phase 2 portion of Nordic Drive,” McGuan stated. “They have also completed the demolition of Excel Street with the exception of the south sidewalk.” McGuan also said that the inst...
April 3 Two men were reported urinating on a building on N. Nordic Drive. A verbal warning was given for failure to yield on Wrangell Avenue. A vehicle was reported parked for an extended period of time on Nordic Drive. An unattended and unmarked bag was reported seen outside of a building. An individual was in a residence without permission. Nothing was reported missing. A disabled vehicle was towed from Nordic Drive. April 4 A large spike was reported on the roadway on Sing Lee Alley. Officers were requested for assistance with an...
The Borough Assembly on Monday voted unanimously to deny the appeal filed by Tamico regarding the award of the North Harbor Reconstruction contract to a Ketchikan company. During an hour-long hearing on Monday, Tamico’s Vice President Jim Martinsen gave testimony regarding the legality of going with a vendor that is outside of Petersburg. Tamico had submitted the second lowest bid overall, about $100,000 higher than Western Dock and Bridge. Last month Martinsen sent a letter to Borough Manager Steve Giesbrecht protesting the decision to a... Full story
During Monday’s meeting, Borough Manager Steve Giesbrecht reported that the Petersburg Library has digitized local newspapers from 1913 to 1931, they are now online and searchable. An eagle strike, the second of the year, was responsible for taking out power from Scow Bay north. There is now a new procedure for handling the carcass which should be in compliance with Fish and Game regulations. “There were some issues regarding our guys picking up the eagles and having them in their possession,” Giesbrecht said. FERC has agreed not to charg...
Consider local preference To the Editor: Thank you and kudos to the Borough Assembly for having a noon meeting. It allowed me to attend without fear of being caught in the dark on my way home although it looked like the fog was going to make it difficult. I know nothing about contract law but it appears that, once again, Manager Giesbrecht is going to send a substantial amount of money out of our community. He urged the Assembly to deny Jim Martinsen’s appeal against awarding a several million-dollar contract to a Ketchikan contractor for w...
While fishing vessels continue to move out of the North Harbor in preparation for the planned reconstruction project, a controversy is brewing over the validity of awarding the multi-million dollar project to an out-of-town contractor. Tamico has filed a letter of protest with Petersburg Borough regarding the reconstruction bid award to Western Dock and Bridge of Ketchikan. In a letter to Borough Manager Stephen Giesbrecht, manager Jim Martinsen of locally-owned Tamico claims the Borough did not follow proper procedure while accepting the... Full story
March 30, 1983 – Petersburg has a reputation around the nation of being one of the top two places in the country for drug activity. The reputation is unfounded, according to members of the Petersburg City Council and Police Department, but the community still has to overcome the reputation. Still, hundreds of thousands of dollars of drugs go through Petersburg in a year. Police Cief Bob Oszman said the drug problem will never be stopped completely, but could be slowed quite a bit. He is committed to controlling the drug problem in the c...
SECON Construction completed drainage construction and back-filled the west side of Excel Street between the harbor office and Main Street this past week. Work continues heading north on North Nordic Drive where they will install storm and sanitary drains on the Coastal Cold Storage side of the street. State Project Inspector Jim Stolpe said the company is about a week behind schedule due to the recent freezing weather. He said SEACON’s concrete plant arrived in town and is being set-up. He e...
March 23, 1983 – Saturday was a perfect morning for collecting aluminium cans at the dump. The Boy, Cub and Girl Scouts collected the cans into two large vans. Jim Franzel, the Boy Scout Committee chairman, said this collection probably held 3,000 to 4,000 pounds. The full vans will be sent to Seattle. At 30 cents a pound, the collection is the scouts' main fundraiser of the year. This is the third year for the collection and Franzel said the scouts have collected about 25,000 pounds of aluminium. Petersburg General Hospital, the Moose Club a...
Bill Stedman and Rod Judy were named Alaska Aviation Living Legends last summer, but they have been so much more to those who have known them. Stedman is a lifelong resident of Petersburg and still lives in the childhood home that he shared with his parents and sisters. “The place has changed over the years, and I have done a lot of work to it,” Stedman stated. “But I have lived here all my life and really haven't wanted to be anywhere else.” Stedman attended Petersburg High School and worked...
During the regular meeting of the Petersburg Borough Assembly Monday evening, Petersburg Borough Manager Steve Giesbrecht reported that there are over 20 interested applicants for the police officer position and two potential Chief candidates from Alaska. “The police officer position is the position that Heidi will be vacating,” Giesbrecht stated. “We will be replacing that with an officer, not a Sergeant.” According the Giesbrecht, the two police chief candidates are from Alaska and have expressed a desire for the position. Giesbrecht also re...
During the March 5-6 meeting of the SEAPA Board of Directors, the reports of operations manager Steve Henson and special projects director Eric Wolfe highlighted a number of projects and new information related to the Tyee Lake Hydroelectric project. An analysis of a Petersburg electrical tower that is sloughing is a topic of importance in the report. “Petersburg Municipal Power and Light discovered a bank that was sloughing near the outside set of anchors on Tower 76-1M on Mitkof Island. There are two anchors per pole of the three pole s...
Sharon Ann Gribble McAdams, 58, passed away peacefully in Petersburg, Alaska on March 15, 2013. Sharon spent her final days, per her wishes, in her hometown surrounded by her loving family, friends and co-workers. She was born on March 18, 1954 in Juneau, Alaska, the youngest of two girls born to Richard and Vera Gribble. Sharon attended and graduated from Petersburg High School. While in school she volunteered as a candy striper for The Future Nurses of America Club at the local hospital in... Full story
Petersburg Harbormaster Glorianne Wollen and staff will make a recommendation to the Petersburg Borough Assembly Monday evening regarding the bids that were received for the North Harbor Project. "The Assembly will be presented with the bid results and the recommendation will be to go with the low bidder," Wollen said. "Western Dock and Bridge out of Ketchikan came in with that low bid." The bids that were received were from Tamico, Inc. for $7,189,420; Pacific Pile and Marine, LLC for $7,855,462; American Construction Company for $8,517,800... Full story
March 6 Vibrations were reported in a building on 12th Street. March 7 Petersburg Public Works was notified of a manhole cover askew on the 600 block of S. Nordic Drive. A vehicle was impounded after a parking violation at South Boat Harbor parking lot. March 8 Alaska Department of Transportation was notified of a vehicle parked in a yellow zone at the Ferry Terminal. A forklift struck and damaged a power pole on First Street. Cash was taken from a vehicle on S. Nordic Drive. A civil matter was reported on Lumber Street. March 9 Kelly Scaduto,...
The just released “Fisheries Economics of the US” by NOAA Fisheries covers the commercial and recreational fishing industries from 2002-2011 and is loaded with descriptive seafood industry stats by region. The report, sixth in a series, tracks the economic impacts, price trends; payroll and annual receipt information for fishing-related businesses, from the dock to dinner plates. The impacts also are reported in terms of employment, sales and value-added impacts. Some highlights: Commercial fishermen in the U.S. harvested 9.9 billion pou...
