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A host of politicians and political hopefuls were in town last week to speak at the ANB/ANS Grand Camp and many arranged meet-and-greets with community members as well. Among them was Republican Governor Sean Parnell who's fighting to defend his position in November's election against Independent candidate Bill Walker who has teamed up with Democrat Byron Mallott. Petersburg was not a campaign stop for Parnell, rather he used his time here to discuss what he's done in his term so far. His two...
Borough residents will have to look elsewhere for school happenings and movie times than the usual spot along Haugen Drive, as, come the construction season of 2015, a large electronic sign advertising events will be relocated about a block away. Rick Dormer, principal of Petersburg High School, said the school and state had something of an understanding on the billboard when it was first installed. "They have a letter saying it's O.K. putting the sign there and using that land," Dormer said,...
Petersburg's Cross Country Vikings have ended a stellar season that saw both teams, boys and girls, take second place in the region and push hard for a sixth place finish at the state meet in Anchorage for the girls and ninth for the boys. With runners abounding on the course, a total of 129 male and 113 female entrants, Coach Tommy Thompson couldn't be prouder of the performance. "As Kayleigh Eddy said as she came across the finish line, 'I just want to do it all over again,'" he said,...
For the first time in many years, both of Petersburg's running teams will be going to the state championship match after both teams finished second at the regional meet in Ketchikan on Sept. 27. "It's been a long time since the boys have gone and it's been much, much longer since both teams have gone,'' said Coach Tommy Thompson. "They ran just fantastic. They may have finished second but it was the best performance of the year from them, just in terms of being really gritty, sticking together a...
Petersburg once was host to sound enterprise of commercial shrimp fisheries and processing plants, drawing in hundreds of thousands - even millions of pounds of shrimp, ranging from the tiny pink crustaceans commonly found gracing salads to their larger brethren that are fried, grilled, battered and steamed in cuisine across the world. Most of that ended in 2005, after Trident Seafoods acquired the local venture, Norquest Seafoods, once Alaskan Glacier Seafoods, and shut down its last shrimp... Full story
Long-time Petersburg residents Joey Doyle and Beth Richards were small-town strangers before an unlikely event brought them together last year. "I kind of knew who she was, but we had never really socialized or anything like that," Doyle said. "We're sisters now." Not unlike twins, they solidified their sisterhood in a hospital room. But Doyle and Richards don't share a mother, they share an organ. It was a kidney transplant that brought them together. Joey has polycystic kidney disease (PKD),... Full story
While Petersburg's varsity volleyball team didn't bring home a win from their Friday and Saturday matches last weekend, neither did they break against the rock of Thunder Mountain's larger 4A team. Friday saw the team pull up just shy of a fifth game victory, 15-9 in the final set, while Saturday beat the Viking girls back to the beaches in a trio of 25- 13, 17 and 19 losses against the larger school. While it was disheartening for the girls, especially the emotional down after Friday's furious...
Petersburg's Vikings returned triumphant from their watery battles over the Sept. 19 and 20 weekend in Juneau for the Swim and Dive invitational match ups, but the youth can't lean on their laurels just yet - regional matches, set to launch Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 here at home will be the definitive test for the teams, Coach Andy Carlisle said. "We did pretty well - not as well as the last meet, when we were at home," Carlisle said. "I'm real confident, they're working real hard right now, which...
Just behind Rae C. Stedman Elementary School a large garden teeming with life offers students and community members a new classroom for learning. The School + Community Garden is comprised of a greenhouse, rows of raised beds that convert into hoop houses, a tool shed and planters fashioned from tires, crab pots and gutters now used to grow perennials, pole beans and strawberries. The children's touches abound in the garden from hand-painted signs to the dinosaur figurines poured into round...
In their first regular board meeting since the school year kicked off, Petersburg school board members on Tuesday discussed new state-required college assessment testing, changes to the advanced placement (AP) grading scale at the high school, and this year's increased student enrollment. New this year, all juniors at Petersburg High School will be required and funded by the state to take a college or career readiness assessment. The state endorses the ACT, SAT and WorkKeys assessment. Principal Rick Dormer said that the implementation of the...
The Petersburg Borough municipal election will be held Oct. 7. Voters will decide who should fill the positions of 37 board and commission slots, as well as weigh in on seven ballot measures. In the coming weeks, the Pilot will publish candidate profiles with information about candidates and their responses about why they're running. This week we profile school board candidates Sarah P. Holmgain, Megan Litster and Jay Lister who are running to fill the board's three open seats and hospital...
Diana Lynn Loseth, 53, passed away unexpectedly September 8, 2014 in Plains, Mont. She was born December 19, 1960 to Anita and David Loseth in Petersburg. Five minutes later her twin sister Deborah (Fisher) Loseth was born. She graduated from Petersburg High School in 1980. In 1981, she married Jim Vick and gave birth to the love of her life, Leah. Diana brought so much sunshine into the lives of the ones she loved and cherished every moment she spent with her three grandchildren Erik, age 9; Si... Full story
September 12, 1914 – The Petersburg school began the term last Tuesday with a full attendance. Forty-eight pupils were enrolled, approximately ten more than attended last year. The addition of Miss. Edna Miller on the staff of teachers, is a great help and both Miss Mitchell and Miss Blyth express much satisfaction at the new order of things. September 8, 1939 – At the first meeting of the month Tuesday the City Council passed the new ordinance fixing a license fee on automatic amusements games. A fee of $50 a year was established by the cou...
Let your voice be hard To the Editor: I’m writing to remind people who are concerned about the proposed Kake-to-Petersburg road that the comments deadline for this stage of the process is September 30th. There are a number of reasons City of Kupreanof residents don’t want a road that might actually violate our local ordinance and ingress into our community, but we believe residents on the other side of the Narrows ought to be concerned, too. The waterfront opposite Petersburg would be forever altered. State roads are not skinny little tra...
Petersburg High School's volleyball girls continued to hone their skills against 4A Juneau-Douglas at home last Friday and Saturday. After losing two star varsity players from last year, Kylie Wallace and Kyla Willis, and graduating two seniors, the Vikings have been working to fill those roles through vigorous practice. The varsity team lost in three games to Juneau-Douglas on Friday night, though two of those games ended with the Vikings within three points, 22-25. The other game finished at...
Martha Louise Reid was born on December 6, 1923 in Bellingham, Washington. She was the 1st of six children born to Petersburg, Alaska residents Edgar (Ted) and Caroline Hungerford. Martha passed away, at the age of 90, on August 21, 2014 in Sitka following a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease. Caroline and baby Martha returned to their home town of Petersburg from Bellingham in the spring of 1924. They joined Martha's father, Ted, and logging partners, Bill and Elvina Stedman with infant son... Full story
Michael J. “Carpie” Carpenter, 59, passed from this life on August 19, 2014 at his home on Kupreanof Island, outside of Petersburg, Alaska. Mike was born on February 26, 1955 in Topeka, Kan. He graduated from Hayden High School in 1973 and attended Washburn University. Mike earned the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scout organization, sparking his life long love of the outdoors. In the mid 1970s, Mike and a group of his friends made a trek to Petersburg, to try their luck at fishing. The other “Kansas boys” eventually left, but “Carpie... Full story
Seventeen runners, including two teams of two, and four walkers participated in Petersburg's first ever Rainforest Run half marathon on Labor Day. The sounding of a conch shell marked the start of the race as runners took off along the 13.1-mile course that wound through the eastern end of the island and ended at Sandy Beach Park. Runners followed tiled mile markers custom-made by Emil Tucker and Carin Christensen and received encouragement, along with water, from volunteers and supporters at ai... Full story
Lee's Clothing has had a main street presence for decades. In fact, owner Roxy Lee and her daughters and store managers Cynthia Lee Mathisen and Heidi Lee are celebrating 45 years of business this month. In the early days Lee's was a working man's store. Roxy outfitted loggers and fishermen and the high-school-aged boys in town. Lee's has since grown into a main street staple outfitting for fashion and function. The story of the store and the Lee's family who run it parallels the story of the... Full story
Southeast Alaska's high school volleyball teams took to the court last weekend for the season opener at Ketchikan's Region V Jamboree. This year Petersburg has an especially large squad: 31 girls, including 11 freshmen. This has led to the creation of a second junior varsity team for some of the younger girls just getting into the mix. Talented and young is a good way to describe the PHS teams. “We've got no seniors on varsity, but we've got a lot of returners with varsity experience from last year and a couple of freshmen that surprised us a...
PHS Cross Country is off and running with a new head coach. Vikings Head Coach Tom Thompson has led practices for a full month and took the girls and boys teams to Juneau for the first meet of the season last weekend. This year's girls team has some very big running shoes to fill after last year's "Fab Five" seniors took the Region V title and finished third in State. Despite being a young team of six girls with a total of three years of cross country experience between them all, Coach Thompson...
William Betts Phillips, age 70, passed from this world to the next on August 4, 2014, in Juneau, Alaska. He was born to David and Francis Phillips, January 22, 1944, in Petersburg, where he lived most of his life. He was proud to be 100% Tlingit. His Tlingit name was KakKlun which means "Big Man". His Moiety was Raven and his clan was Beaver. After high school, he spent time at Sheldon Jackson Jr. College. He followed college with technical school where he learned the trade of radio repair and f... Full story
Three Petersburg School Board seats are up for grabs during this year’s Borough election and all remain vacant, though the three incumbent board members said they would run for their seats again at Tuesday's meeting. Vice-President Sarah Holmgrain, who has been on the board since 2008, said she would like to run again for a 3-year term. Board member Megan Litster, who was appointed to a vacant seat in May, said she would like to run for the 2-year seat. And Jay Lister, also a board member since May, said he could run for the 1-year term. A...
High School Registrations Petersburg High School office 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Monday, August 25 12th grade students Tuesday, August 26 11th grade students Wednesday, August 27 10th grade students Thursday, August 28 9th grade students Friday, August 29 New students/others scheduling needs High School Lap Top Rollout Petersburg High School Library, 7 p.m. *Students and Parents are required to attend a presentation on Apple laptop guidelines before receiving student laptops for the 2014-15 school year. This is held in the HS Library on the...
University of Alaska Southeast-Juneau Danielle Lane Torrence graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Elementary Education from the University of Alaska Southeast-Juneau on May 4, 2014. Danielle is the daughter of Dan Torrence of Petersburg and Valerie Vlahovich of Fairbanks. She is currently employed at Gastineau Elementary School Rally in Juneau. She is a 2010 graduate of Petersburg High School....
