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Alaska Congressman Don Young spoke about a program to revitalize Southeast schools, local businesses and sea otter pelt market possibilities during a brief stop in Petersburg on Tuesday. Young met with the Economic Redevelopment Council on Tuesday in City Council chambers. The hour-long round-table invited members of the council and the community to speak their minds. Young first spoke about the importance of the fishing industry in Southeast Alaska: “You can't just build up a work-force over ni...
Five students from Petersburg High Schools participated in the National Ocean Sciences Bowl (NOSB), coming in fourth overall against 20 other teams in the region. The Petersbug team included Tyler Lantiegne, who served as team captain, as well as Kyla Compton, Diane Murph, Nicole Peterson and Kyle Hagerman. The team competed as the Cexy Cnidarians. Coaches Joni Johnson and Sunny Rice, the Marine Advisory Agent with the Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program, also assisted. The team delivered...
SEATTLE (AP) — A large, Seattle-based diversified seafood company says it has reached a preliminary agreement to acquire Snopac Products. Icicle Seafoods president and CEO Dennis Guhlke said Wednesday his company is excited about the agreement with Snopac, an independently owned and operated seafood processing company with operations in Alaska and Seattle. Terms were not disclosed. Snopac operates a seafood processing plant in Dillingham, Alaska, and a seafood processing vessel. It has a significant presence in the Bristol Bay sockeye salmon f...
Ronald Bruce Simpson, 74, lost his battle with cancer on December 24, 2011. Ron was born on August 4, 1937, in Cashmere, Wash. to Orwan and Barbara Simpson. Ron’s very early years were spent in the Cashmere area. In 1943 the family moved to Anchorage, where Orwan, Ron’s father found work. In 1948 the family moved back to Cashmere, as Ron’s sister Sondra needed medical attention. The family resided there through Ron’s school years. He graduated from Cashmere High School, working at various jobs in the valley. He worked in the fruit industr...
The PHS Tsunami Bowl team heads to Juneau this weekend to scrimmage against the powerhouse Juneau-Douglas and Thunder Mountain teams. They’ll compete in head-to-head matches against the two teams, as well as meet with NOAA Fisheries staff and tour the DIPAC hatchery. “Our team learned a lot from our scrimmage against Juneau last year. For most of our kids, it will be their first glimpse of the kind of competition they’ll be facing in Seward,” said coach Joni Johnson. The actual statewi...
