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Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association Inc., (NSRAA) will hold its Fall Board of Directors meeting November 14-15, starting at 9:00 a.m. in the NSRAA conference room at 1308 Sawmill Creek Rd. in Sitka. Meetings are open to the public.... Full story
November 8, 1918 On Saturday night a quiet wedding ceremony was celebrated at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Roundtree, which united Miss Elsie Roundtree, their daughter and C. Clausen. The groom is the assistant cashier of the Bank of Petersburg and the young couple will make their home here. On the evening of November 1, Miss Loyla Osten and Mr. Earl Ohmer were married at the Petersburg Hotel. The young couple will make their home in Petersburg. Mr. Ohmer is engaged in the fishing and salting business with his headquarters here. No papers were...




November 8, 1918 The proclamation issued by the Health Board is as follows: 1. In order to prevent the deadly disease known as the Spanish Influenza from spreading, every person must absolutely comply with the orders and instructions issued by the Health Board.; 2. Keep to yourselves as much as possible, and avoid contact with other persons. Keep your children at home. Do not group on the street. Keep away from the docks when steamships and gas-boats land.; 3. Transact your business and duties with speed and spend no time visiting.; 4. All...




October 25, 1918 The coal dealers of Petersburg are short of that product and not a pound is for sale in the city. Coal is expected to arrive on the Spokane late this week. A new addition 40 to 70 feet is now nearly completed to the Citizens Wharf. The new part will be used for coal storage and other purposes, leaving much more warehouse space on the dock. October 22, 1943 Next Friday the Service Men’s Christmas Edition of the Peterburg Press will be issued. Many of the boys expressed their appreciation of this unusual kind of a newspaper l...




October 18, 1918 Thirty six men from Petersburg are in the armed service of the United States assisting in its effort to down the mad beast of Potsdam and his assistant murderers. These men are many of them Scandinavians, and one of them born in Germany, but they have a love for freedom and personal liberty such as actuated the founders of this great Republic and which makes them ready to lay down their lives for humanity and the country of their adoption. October 15, 1943 Chairman Mansfield predicted today that non-controversial navigation...




October 11, 1918 Petersburg is now connected directly with Juneau, Sitka, Wrangell and Ketchikan with cable. The cableship Burnsides was in port most of last week and part of this making the connection. The present wireless office will be discontinued and Petersburg will become the transfer point for all messages for Wrangell, Ketchikan, Hadley and the west coast of Prince of Wales Island. The cable was cut in Frederick Sound and the end landed at Sandy Beach and brought overland to the town. October 8, 1943 A fire completely destroyed the buil...


