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The Petersburg Rotary Club will distribute over 200 pounds of moose burger to the community on Saturday morning, through a unique local program that turns hunting violations into a food security resource. Petersburg's Moose Burger Bank, now in its eighth year, processes meat from illegally harvested moose and distributes it to local nonprofits and community organizations and, when supplies allow, directly to community members. A public distribution will take place at 10 a.m. Saturday outside...
December 11, 1925 – Petersburg’s Miss Laddie Kyle, who is in Seward gathering data for a novel she is publishing, received a substantial check and a good contract from an Eastern magazine for pen drawings illustrating scenes around Seward. As a magazine illustrator Miss Kyle has few superiors, her work being of a high order, and eagerly sought by some of the Eastern magazines. Shortly, Miss Kyle will leave for Anchorage where she will spend a month looking over local color, and making pen and ink sketches of scenery in the vicinity. Her new...
In their final tournament before regionals, the Petersburg High School Wrestling team had an opportunity to finish the regular season at Wrangell's Tom Sims Invitational on a high with momentum heading into regionals - and they did just that. The team put out their best performance of the season, said head coach James Valentine. Coach Valentine praised the growth they showed in the meet and to get to this point despite having a younger team. "Overall, I thought this was a great weekend for...
Last season, the Petersburg High School Vikings fell just short of a state berth, losing to the Metlakatla Chiefs. Despite the loss, throughout the season, the team was able to improve deploying their motion offense, despite the struggles for the majority of the season. This year, the team hopes to be able to limit mistakes from the get go when running their offense. "For a lot of those guys last year, it was their first varsity experience of having extended minutes – I'm hoping that e...
Heading into the 2025-26 season, the Petersburg High School Girls Varsity Basketball team will be looking to dictate the pace of their opponents and not the other way around. Too many times last season, the Vikings would get off to slow starts, in part because teams just took the fight to them. "Sometimes we would take the floor and it took us a little while to get in the flow of things because other teams would come out and be physical right of the get go and we weren't ready to respond to...
Donald Dean Anderson was born on March 7, 1944, in Miami, a classic western boom-town in the heart of Arizona's Copper Corridor, to Earnest and Nellie Anderson. The family soon moved to California where Don and his older brothers, Bob and Vernon, grew up in the Central Valley and Sierra Foothills. After graduating from Morro Bay High School in 1962, Don enlisted in the U.S. Navy. He served in engine room #2, aboard the USS Alamo, LSD 33. He met and fell in love with D. Charlene Bass and they... Full story
The Alaska Board of Game will consider nearly 70 proposals affecting Southeast Alaska during its January 23-27, 2026 meeting in Wrangell, including several that would directly impact hunting regulations around Petersburg and on Mitkof Island. The meeting will be held at the Nolan Center in Wrangell, with remote participation available via Zoom. Written comments are due by January 9 to be included in the board’s meeting materials. The Petersburg Fish and Game Advisory Committee is reviewing the proposals ahead of the January meeting. The c...
When clients aboard the charter vessel Dauntless suggested helping chef Alisa Jestel create her long-dreamed-of cookbook two years ago, she didn't imagine it would lead to cameras, a film crew, and a documentary premiering at Petersburg's Wright Auditorium next week. "Tide and Table," a short documentary from Two Doors Down Productions, began as a modest 8-10 minute film concept. But after Emmy-winning director Brian Bill and his crew arrived in Petersburg last May, they realized they'd... Full story
With the playoffs quickly approaching, every meet becomes critical for the Petersburg High School Wrestling team to fine tune their techniques and strategies. As stated by head coach James Valentine, this was the team's best tournament performance so far. "After this weekend, we are doing really well. Myself and Tyler Thain, we both have been talking about it a lot. I think this is the best weekend we've seen our kids wrestle all year long," Valentine said. The Bill Weiss Tournament brings the...
Seeking their first state berth since the 2017, the Petersburg High School Varsity Volleyball team controlled their own destiny. The Vikings first game was against the Haines Glacier Bears. The Glacier Bears won the first set 25-15. The Vikings rebounded and won the first set 25-11 with the set now tied 1-1 in a best-of-five. “We came out slow in that first set. We were kind of off trying to get our offense rolling,” head coach Jaime Cabral said. The Vikings won set three 25-18 to take a 2-1 lead. Then the Glacier Bears went 2-0, winning set...
Petersburg artist Ashley Lohr will open her 17th consecutive annual solo exhibition at the Clausen Memorial Museum on Friday, Nov. 21. "The history there ... it's always been a nice reminder to make work and have something to look forward to, to show my work," Lohr said of the sustained opportunity at the museum. This year's exhibition, titled "Drifting Colorways," features three distinct bodies of work: enamel earrings, acrylic abstracts, and new artistic territory for Lohr: oil paintings of...
Nothing is guaranteed in sports. You can be the favorite as a team or player to win a championship and still fall short in the biggest moments. Heading into the 2025 ASAA Swim and Dive State Championships, Petersburg senior Logan Tow was the #1 seed in the boys 100 freestyle, with a time of 47.69. To this point, Tow had won five regional titles, set multiple personal best/records throughout his career. The only thing he hadn't accomplished was a state title that seemed almost evasive – a...
Around three years ago Petersburg's 100-year-old American Legion post, the Edward Locken Post 14, had dwindled to three members – Paul Anderson, Butch Anderson, and Stan Hjort. Paul Anderson carried a tremendous amount of the responsibility for the veteran community in Petersburg. When he died in Jan. 2023, a new generation of local veterans stepped up to carry the mantle. Petersburg resident Garrett Kravitz was just retiring from his career in the Navy. He, along with Tony and Tracy Vinson, l...
At this time last year, the Petersburg High School Wrestling team had competed in four tournaments, allowing them to get plenty of experience and live reps. This year, they just recently wrapped up only their second meet. "I felt as though confidence was not where it needed to be. It took until into the second and third period ... to gain confidence when they should've maybe gained confidence earlier," head coach James Valentine said. Through that, that's where I saw the mistakes coming." The mo...
Heading into the South Seeding Tournament, the Petersburg High School Varsity Volleyball team had the opportunity to clinch a top two seed. The tournament didn’t start the way the Vikings wanted it to. In the Viking’s first match, they faced the Wrangell Wolves, losing 25-19 and 25-22. Then they faced the Skagway Panthers and lost 25-21 and 27-25. Combined with all of the travel complications to get to Craig, it wasn’t the start the Viking’s were hoping for. “We had four minutes of [prep time] before we got into hitting warmups and playing,...
Jilleen Ingram Dolbeare was born on September 26, 1967, in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was the first of four children born to Cregg and JoAnne Ingram. She attended schools in Payson, Utah, and graduated from Payson High School in 1985. During her high school years Jill enjoyed riding horses, participating on the swim team, reading all the books she could find, attending church and playing the piano and the clarinet. She loved animals and always had horses or cats to dote on – they lived far b... Full story
Another year, another strong performance for the Petersburg High School Swim and Dive team during the Region V Championships, with Petersburg senior swimmer Logan Tow bringing home multiple Region V titles. Tow finished claiming his pair of regional titles in the boys 200 yard freestyle, with a time of 1 minute and 46 seconds and the boys 100 freestyle, with a time of 47.69. "I've continued to work hard and trust the process. I've had some good swims this year," Tow said. The 100 race went down...
November 6, 1925 – The motor-ship Boxer was in Port Wednesday with four hundred reindeer carcasses on board, some of which were sold to the local markets. The Boxer, with its Eskimo crew, is on its way south from the Point Barrow district. It has a 300-HP Atlas diesel and is commanded by Captain Whitlan. The passengers on board were Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Andrews and six school teachers from Wainwright, in the Arctic Circle. November 3, 1950 – Despite the fact that digging started when the season was almost over, about 1,000 pounds of false hel...
Petersburg is feeling the impact of the federal government shutdown leaving families without their November Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits. But local organizations are responding quickly to ramp up food distribution efforts. "It's already hitting our community hard," said Veronica Ware, the Johnson O'Malley and Social Services Director at the Petersburg Indian Association. "I've already had calls from citizens in tears because they don't have any food and they don't have any...
Twelve Petersburg High School musicians traveled to Wrangell last week to participate in the Southeast Alaska Honor Music Festival. The students spent three intensive days rehearsing and performing alongside the region's top young musicians under the direction of guest conductors from Oregon and Southern California. The festival, held October 26-29, brings together students selected through a competitive audition process. Students record their auditions locally, which are then evaluated by...
When 16-year-old Jakob Preisler signed up for his international exchange program, he didn't expect to come to Alaska. "It was a really big surprise," Jakob said. "I choose USA, and then after a few weeks, I got the information: you go to Alaska." Since the early 1990s, Petersburg's Rotary Club has participated in international exchange programs. Each year, a student from Petersburg spends time in another country, and the community welcomes an international student for the school year. This... Full story
Coming off of consecutive conference games during the North Seeding and home tournaments, the Petersburg High School Varsity Volleyball team played their first non-conference games since the beginning of the season against the Ketchikan Kings. "A very different style of volleyball. It was really good to play that style of ball. The style that they played was way faster," head coach Jaime Cabral said. [The Kings] served extremely well – and so we had to make some adjustments on our blockers a...
The Petersburg High School Varsity Volleyball team played their first home games of the season this past weekend in a playoff-like scenario - a best-of-five series against two conference opponents: The Metlakatla Chiefs and Craig Panthers. The Vikings took care of business in the first set, winning 25-20 after getting down 7-2 early on. However, things quickly changed for the team after that, losing the next two sets 26-24 and 25-14. The Vikings were able to take set four, 25-21, but ultimately...
