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The Lady Vikings varsity basketball team won two games against the Wrangell Wolves at last weekend's homecoming match up. "I thought it was a great weekend for us. I thought the kids played well," said Head Coach Dino Brock. "I thought they played hard all weekend long, both JV and varsity." The varsity team won Friday's game 57-36, led in scoring by the team's lone senior Shalie Dahl who put up 18 points. Kylie Wallace scored 11 for the Vikings. Emma Chase put up 8 points and Ruby Brock and Cat...
Petersburg lost its first game to Mt. Edgecumbe Wednesday night. The Lady Vikings started off slow as Mt. Edgecumbe jumped off to an early lead in the first half, Petersburg down 21-29 at the half. "We started out slow again in the third," Head Coach Dino Brock said. "At one point they had an 18 point lead." But Petersburg rallied as Brock had his team beef up the defensive pressure. "We started pressing them. We had the game down to a couple possessions at one point and made a nice run getting...
The Petersburg Vikings fell to the Sitka Wolves last weekend after two tough games that both went into overtime. The Vikings started out with a solid lead during Friday night's competition, ahead 14-7 at the end of the first quarter and extended its lead to 27-17 at the half. Things took a turn for Petersburg midway through the third quarter however as Sitka took advantage of Viking turnovers. By the end of the third quarter Sitka fought back to within six points. "In the fourth we had two many...
The Vikings beat the Wrangell Wolves last weekend during Wrangell's homecoming games. Petersburg had a slow start Friday night, with players setting up different defenses. "We were a little confused on our half court defense," head coach Rick Brock said. "That doesn't usually work well and it was kind of a slow start for us. I called a timeout and we got ourselves together." Wrangell was up 7-1 before the timeout but once the Vikings readjusted they found their rhythm and took control of the...
January More than 600 Petersburg residents signed up for the borough's recycling program. The Petersburg Land Selection Committee requested the borough pursue legislative action regarding the State's calculation of land entitlement for the Petersburg Borough after the committee's determination that the State's selection of land was inadequate. The Petersburg School Board approved a $2.3 million exterior wall renovation project for the Rae C. Stedman Elementary School. Petersburg School District... Full story
January 2, 1915 – Although the steamer situation was a big handicap to the convention and anniversary celebration held by the Sons of Norway lodge – delegates from Gastineau towns being unable to get there – the affair was fraternally and socially successful. All members from Petersburg and vicinity attended, and a delegation from Ketchikan came up by gasboat. At the banquet there were about eighty members and visitors in attendance. At the Arctic Brotherhood ball on New Years eve, a novel ceremonial was arranged for midnight. Promptly at th...
The Petersburg Vikings are 1-1 as of Tuesday afternoon as they compete in Ketchikan at the Clarke Cochran Christmas Classic tournament. The Vikings faced off Monday against Fairbanks’ three time state champions Monroe Catholic. Vikings head coach Rick Brock he knew going into the game it was going to be quite a test for his young squad. Monroe Catholic put pressure on Petersburg with a full court press and the Vikings struggled scoring. “We had too many live ball turnovers which they converted to points quickly,” Brock said. “They get up and...
Viking wrestlers didn’t manage to seize the crown during this year’s competition at the state wrestling championship, pulling up third as the closest as four boys made their bids for first. “It was a tough tournament – state is never easy,” Coach Dan Van Swearengen said. “I felt we could have wrestled a bit better, the same for regionals, I feel like the guys were holding back.” Buddy Stalmach, the only sophomore amongst seniors, went to his first fall-free tournament, winning and losing exclusively by pins. Appearing tired and nervous in his f...
Summer 2014 was a busy one for Petersburg, with tourists bringing more charter business to town and spending more on hotels and retail than the previous summer. This summer the Borough collected over $35,000 in sales taxes from charter businesses, almost double what was collected over the same time period in 2013. The Borough also collected about $4,000 more each in bed tax revenue and retail sales tax revenue. Marilyn Meucci of the Visitor Information Center said she thought that a rebounding economy played a large role in the increased...
Throughout history, sages and generals have proclaimed that the greatest teacher a man may have is his adversary, and Vikings wrestlers hit a bit of a learning curve at the Bill Weiss tournament in Ketchikan as they faced off against some of their toughest competition yet, taking fourth for the tournament. Though Coach Dan Van Swearengen had initially planned to rest more of the team, the lure of the prestigious tournament still called out nine wrestlers, who typically picked up rankings...
The Lady Vikings rallied against great odds in their final regional battle, pushing Sitka to the edge in their final 3A tournament that also saw sophomore Emma Chase selected as one of six outstanding southeastern players selected for the all-conference team in recognition for her tremendous efforts on the courts. "This is our last year in 3A, so it was kind of bittersweet," Coach Jaime Cabral said. "All the 3A teams get along really well, we know when to turn the competition switch on and off....
Abe Aulbach went out in style, smashing a state record for the 100-yard freestyle race set in 1998, as he and many of his teammates took their last competitive lap in Anchorage at the state competition, with the tiny team more than holding its own against schools that dwarf its roster. Aulbach, swimmer extraordinaire by the collective opinion of all the coaches at the state meet, who named him outstanding male athlete of the event, brought in Petersburg's only first place prizes for the 50- and... Full story
The right to trial by jury developed over centuries in England beginning with Viking raiders. Trial by jury was a concession the English barons extracted from King John in 1215 in the Magna Carta. On July 4, 1776, members of the Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence, declaring that the United States of America was dissolving its “political bands” with Great Britain because King George III had denied the colonists their rights as British citizens, including “in many cases, the benefits of trial by jury.” Benjamin Frankli...
Viking volleyball got a taste of the years to come on Nov. 4, when they had a friendly match with past and future rivals in Wrangell. The teams haven’t met on the courts for several years, as a higher student headcount kept Petersburg in the larger 3A districts – but now that the student body is shrinking again, the neighboring Wolves will be more often seen stalking the fields, taking the place of departing foes in Sitka and Mt. Edgecumbe as the school changes to 2A. But if their recent spar is any measure of what’s to come, the Vikings will...
Viking wrestlers went for broke again in Sitka, going first or nothing when it came to the championship rounds of the unconventional double elimination tournament and taking three titles for Petersburg. Buddy Stalmach, 113; John Brooks, 145; and Billy Ware, 152, all took tops in their divisions, wrestling undefeated through the ranks. “We didn’t bring everybody — we left Brandon (Ware), 192, at home, but he could have probably taken first or second,” Coach Dan Van Swearengen said. “John Brooks, he went back up to 145 pounds instead of 138, w...
The Petersburg Vikings swim because they're too fast for sports that require clothes, the banners at the aquatic center proudly proclaimed, backed by dozens of individual posters cheering on particular players with a mixture of confidence and teasing. The town came out to support its own at home, and swimmers continued to give their fans reasons to cheer as the boys team brought in another win ahead of the upcoming state meet, where nine Viking swimmers will take on the best aquatic youth of Ala... Full story
The Viking wrestlers went north with the expectation of competition, some familiar and some new, and were not disappointed on any count. New faces, moves and losses were a shock to some of the boys, but by Monday they were hitting the mats hard again, preparing for the next round. “A couple guys, they ran into some tough competition, but overall it was great for everybody,” Coach Dan Van Swearengen said. “Those guys from up north – they’re strong up there.” It wasn’t just sheer strength that played into the uphill battles, he added, noting...
Mad hatter auctioneer Brad Taylor ups the bidding for a package at Saturday night's Viking Swim Club auction. All told, organizers said the event raised about $25,000 for the club. "The live auction was up from last year while the silent auction was down from last year. This was Heather Conn's and my first year coordinating the auction so we learned a lot and plan on doing it again next year," co-organizer Savann Guthrie said....
Swimming Viking boys continue to carve themselves a place ahead of their competitors, though that margin remains slim as competitors kick hard to catch up. The team took first place at their recent invitational at Sitka both Friday and Saturday, with Thunder Mountain and Sitka right behind, 116 to 112 (Sitka) on Friday and a larger gap of 128 to 84 (Thunder Mountain and Sitka both) the day after. That’s with everyone dragging one or two seconds behind typical times to boot, Coach Andy Carlisle said. “We didn’t swim very fast, but we still...
Petersburg wrestlers got a taste of what the coming season will have in store for them, coming off a Round Robin tournament hosted in Metlakatla last weekend. "Everybody wrestled everybody in their weight class," Coach Dan van Swearingen said. "My older guys, my seniors just killed it down there – for the freshman it was kind of an eye opener, this is what high school wrestling is all about." The wrestling Vikings carry a long legacy of regional championships and strong state performances, proud...
And the contract goes to . . . Viking Lumber. Hoooooray! It’s wonderful to witness in this day and age a Prince of Wales Island sawmill win the Big Thorne stewardship contract. The mill has survived the industry’s ups and downs, and with a continuing supply of timber, will continue to process logs in southern Southeast Alaska. The sale is designed to provide timber as soon as possible to the mill. The initial small volume of timber will be followed by two smaller volumes to be announced later. This contract should help to secure the mil...
Petersburg's Vikings continue to pull ahead of other schools at swim meets, leading in many of the events over Friday and Saturday in Ketchikan. “The kids swam great, we didn't have a whole lot of competition ― there was only one or two guys that could give us any race,” Coach Andy Carlisle said. “Thunder Mountain (High School) left many of their best kids at home.” Still, the Viking swimmers were vastly outnumbered at the meet, the weight of larger schools' aggregate points pushing the teams' handful of high scores down in the rankings,...
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,...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – The U.S. Forest Service has awarded a contract for a timber sale in southeast Alaska to the region's last mid-size mill, Viking Lumber Co. Lawsuits were filed over the Big Thorne sale before the contract was awarded, and Tongass National Forest spokesman Kent Cummins said no ground work would be done by Viking until the courts decide the case _ likely next spring. Cummins told the Juneau Empire in a story Thursday that he couldn't comment on the size of the contract or on how many companies had bid until the contract w...
