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Rustic Snowshoes These antique, handcrafted snowshoes are early additions to the museum collection. Found at the Charity Box in 1964, the person who made them is unknown. Measuring 64 " long and 10 " wide, this style is best suited for traversing open country and deep snow, rather than forested trails. Two branches are joined at each end by a wooden peg, then bound with string to form the frame. Notches were made for crossbars which provide strength and help hold the shape. The netting is woven...
Hannah Pfundt and Erin Pfundt have achieved Provost’s Honor Roll status for the Fall 2019 semester at Whitworth University. These students have been named to the Dean’s list for Fall 2019 semester at the University of Alaska Southeast. Andrew A Ayriss and Tiare R Simbahon of Petersburg and Tauni B Minelli and Shaelene G Moler of Kake....
January 16, 1920 John Bruce is now engaged in taking the fourteenth census of Petersburg and district, having been appointed to that duty by Charles W. Hawkesworth, of the Bureau of Education. All facts as to the number of residents occupations, businesses and everything pertaining to census statistics will be compiled under date of January 1st, 1920. The number of people listed for Petersburg by Mr. Bruce will determine the listed population of the town for the next ten years. January 12, 1945 With fine reports in on the Sixth War Loan drive,...
Top contributors to the Salvation Army Red Kettle drive in 2019: 1. Petersburg Rotary Club $6,152 2. State & Federal employees $3,337 3. Petersburg Vessel Owners $2,345 4. Sons of Norway $1,281 5. School District $1,225 6. P.V. Fire Department $1,110 Total donations to the Salvation Army this Christmas season totaled $21,230 with the additional contribution of $4,100 that came in just recently, according to Salvation Army Major Loni Upshaw....
January 9, 1920 Petersburg is experiencing one of the mildest winters for years. The temperature has ranged around thirty to fifty above zero for the past two weeks. Early in December a touch of cold weather was experienced when a light fall of snow covered the ground and the temperature dropped to zero for a few hours one night, but this soon passed away and rain has cleared the ground of its snow. The old reliable early bird, the elder berry bushes are bursting into bud, and unless they get a setback will soon all sprout green leaves....
"Born with a paintbrush in hand" in St. Albins, VT in 1899, Sister Eva LeDoux showed an early talent for art. She was one of fifteen children, several of whom were called to religious service. Art studies took her all over the world, including Montreal and Paris. She entered the Community of Sisters at age 20, first coming to Alaska as a travel companion to a fellow nun, and returning several times. In Ketchikan, she helped found the School of Art and taught at the community college. Our museum...
The 2019 homecoming court was crowned on Saturday between the girls and boys basketball games against Wrangell. From left to right: freshmen prince and princess Malcolm Fry and Saphire Weathers; junior prince and princess Andras "Kovi" Kovacs and Annie Christensen; homecoming king and queen Thomas Durkin and Miranda Nilsen; senior prince and princess Zephrie Whitethorn and Nina McCay; sophomore prince and princess Caleb Pfundt and Bergen Kludt-Painter. In the front row are the king and queen's...
The Oxford Carolers, led by Mark Kubo, performing "See Amid Winter Snow" at a community winter concert on Sunday at the Petersburg Lutheran Church. Back row from left to right: Jim Roberts, Nicole McMurren, Sarah Hofstetter, Orin Pierson, Joe Stratman, Alec McMurren and Chris Romine. Front row from left to right: Michele Pfundt, Lizzy Walsh, Grace Bieber, Carin Christensen, Sunny Rice, Chris Weiss and Elise Kubo....
Logan Haley, in the front on the left, on trumpet and Thomas Phillips on clarinet had dual solo parts in "Christmas Concerto #3" by Robert W. Smith in the Mitkof Middle School's winter concert last Thursday....
Director Matt Lenhard leads the Petersburg High School concert band on Dec. 17 in "March of the Toys" by Victor Herbert, arranged by Jones. The concert band also performed "Midnight Carols" arranged by Jerry Davis and "Where Christmas Began" by Paul Clark....
About 20 residents gathered on the evening of Dec. 18 at Buschmann Park to mark the United States House of Representatives' vote to impeach President Donald Trump. The group is also committed to reaching out to Sen. Dan Sullivan and Sen. Lisa Murkowski to encourage the two senators to act as impartial jurors when the articles of impeachment reach the United States Senate, according to Assembly Member Chelsea Tremblay, one of the organizers of the event. "Speaking for myself, I was relieved to...
January 2, 1920 Smaller paper publishers all over the country are faced with temporary suspension or bankruptcy if the condition is not remedied as this price of 13.5 cents per pound cannot be paid by them. Before this was this same paper sold for two and a half cents. The people of Petersburg will not be without their paper, however, for some time as the Report was able to secure a supply at a moderately high figure, just before the last raise and now has enough paper on hand to turn to for nearly a year. Bills have been introduced in...
Anchorage, AK – Rasmuson Foundation is accepting applications for the 2020 Individual Artist Awards (IAA). Applications will be accepted through March 2. In addition to individual artists, groups and collaboratives — two or more artists working together — for the first time will be eligible for Project Awards and Fellowships. A musical band, a dance company and a multimedia collective are some examples. The awards support artistic growth and exploration of new creative ground for artists living and working in Alaska. In 2019, award recip...
Haley Kelley graduated from UAA on Dec. 15 with a Bachelor's of Science in Nursing degree. She's the daughter of Loreen Granberg and John Kelley. She graduated from Petersburg High School in 2012....
December 26, 1919 The Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department has been organized with an active and an inactive list. Those members whose business takes them from town, such as fishermen etc., have been placed on the inactive list. They are still members of the department and are expected to attend drills, fires, and meetings when in town, but do not need to make excuses when absent as it is taken for granted that they are absent from the city. With the new arrangement each team captain will know that there are certain men that he can always...
State Representative Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins will hold public office hours on Mon., Dec. 23 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at Common Grounds. No appointment necessary, just stop by....
Prospector Creighton Campbell's 1887 diary tells a challenging tale of winter survival as the first white person up the Iskut River headwaters in the Stikine watershed. Indians recommended travel over ice, so Campbell and buddies gathered gear, food and a dog named "Useless" for prospecting upriver. Snows 8 ft. deep hampered efforts, and by March they were barely halfway. Bacon and salt were getting low; by April just beans and flour were left. When they finally returned to Ft. Wrangel, they...
December 19, 1919 The Petersburg Band has been re-organized with H. S. Halgeson as director and with about 30 members, many of whom are old players. The new organization would receive the active support of every citizen of Petersburg as music is one of the recognized necessities of a contented community life. What town can properly celebrate the 4th of July for instance without the assistance of a band. December 15, 1944 The Territory of Alaska has a net cash balance as of September 30, 1944, of $1,352,111.17, the highest balance in its...
The Mitkof Middle School robotics team will be traveling to Juneau this weekend for a region wide competition. Two teams made up of seventh and eighth graders will give presentations on solutions to problems facing Petersburg and participate in a robotics competition. The two teams will use robots they preprogrammed to perform several tasks. Each task is worth a certain amount of points, and the team with the most points wins. The sixth grade team competed in a competition on Saturday via video... Full story
December 12, 1919 Last Monday night the Sons of Norway Trading Union store was totally destroyed by fire. The blaze started about half past five in the evening and within two hours the building was a blackened ruin. The loss is estimated at between thirty and forty thousand dollars, with about one third covered by insurance. The fire started in the upper rear corner of the building, presumably from a defective electric wire. Although the firemen fought valiantly they were unable to stop the flames. The Sons of Norway store was owned by a large...
Wednesday night, the Sons of Norway hosted their 45th annual pickled herring contest. Contestants submitted in four categories: pickled herring, pickled seafood, smoked/cured seafood and smoked salmon. Judges sampled each of the dishes and named first, second and third place winners. Contestants could also submit a dish into the taster's choice category, which was judged by the public. In the pickled herring category, Sig Mathisen tied with himself for third place with his south of the border an...
