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Water droplets outline and accentuate the fragile spider web woven across deck supports of a local home....
A Bald Eagle makes use of a waterfront foundation to scout for a meal along Wrangell Narrows earlier this week....
KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — The rainfall this summer in one Alaska city is getting close to shattering a 50-year record. Ketchikan is on track to have its wettest summer since 1967, according to the National Weather Service in Juneau. National Weather Service Meteorologist Edward Liske said the city is 1.28 inches (3.3 centimeters) away from having the rainiest summer in recorded history. Ketchikan’s total rainfall since June 21 is 42.88 inches (109 centimeters). To put that into perspective, Seattle’s total average rainfall is 37.49 inches (95.2...
More than 30 people participated in the Children Gone too Soon walk in Petersburg on Saturday. Folks walked from 3rd Street to the end of the docks, where family and friends tossed flowers into the Narrows to commemorate children who died too soon....
Stephanie Pawuk started teaching at the Rae C. Stedman Elementary School this year. Here she is with her mix of third and fourth grade students on Monday, the first day of school....
Sara Dembs moved from Colorado to Haines a year ago and now lives in Petersburg, where her first day of full-time teaching fifth grade students was on Monday....
KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — Heavy rainfall in the southeast Alaska city of Ketchikan damaged a highway and flooded homes, one of them so badly that water poured out of one homeowner’s light fixture. Ketchikan received 7-10 inches (18-25 centimeters) of rain Monday into Tuesday, creating hazardous conditions, the Ketchikan Daily News reported. On Tuesday, the city recorded 4.18 inches (10.62 centimeters) of rain, nearly doubling the record set in 1917 for precipitation, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “It took...
Ridge Contracting workers loaded 729 -1.5 yard bags of contaminated soil aboard the barge Alder O last weekend at the bulkhead below the old White Alice communications site in Duncan Canal. Soil was removed from the Air Force owned property about 2,400 feet up a mountain on Kupreanof Island, and taken down a 6-mile road to the beach. The soil will be transferred to an AML barge in Ketchikan and will be shipped to an Oregon disposal facility. The Alder O is a 178 x 50-foot steel barge, towed by the Harriet O, a 66.7-foot tug owned by Olson...
A Rufous Hummingbird perched on a cable near a home along Libby Straights last week. It is a small hummingbird, about 8 cm long with a long, straight and slender bill. These birds are known for their extraordinary flight skills, flying 2,000 miles during their migratory transits to Mexico....
August 17, 1917 – At a special meeting of the council held last night Louis Israelson was engaged as construction foreman for sewer and street improvement work. Besides the sewer to be constructed on E street, the walk on that street is to be rebuilt; also the Main-street walk from the approach to the Packing Company dock north to where it joins the new walk. New walks are to be built on D and G street, as petitioned for. Satisfactory prices for lumber were submitted to the council by the Olaf Arness Company. The cost of the various i...
A soft mist framed a float house in Shakes Slough early Sunday during a brief rain break. The float house is owned by partners Sig and Ambre Burrell, Josh and Rachel Etcher and Eric Larson. Overcast weather conditions continued into Monday, making the eclipse viewing impossible for Wrangell and Petersburg residents. The next eclipse will happen in 2024....
Vast sections of the South Boat Harbor sat vacant last week as commercial boats were underway to harvest fish, and visiting yachts moved on to the next port of call....
August 17, 1917 – Included in the call for bids carrying mail on all steamboat or other power-boat routes, in the territory of Alaska is a new route (No. 78066) from Petersburg to Red Bluff Bay and way points. The route covers the points supplied by the Hogue & Tveten boats the last two years. That the new route will be established there can be little room for doubt, as the department recognizes that the big herring canneries and other permanent stations in the fishing industry now operating at the several points make this mail service a n...
Mrs. Willis Kindergarten: Andrew Ayriss, Colette Boggs, Tavyn Cabral, Jovee Coil, Sabrein Cole, Anya Curtiss, Alex Deberry, Hakon Eddy, Ethan Edwards, Emmett Flor, Daven Lopez, Luciana Maldonado, Rebel McGrath, Victoria Miller, Daisy Morrow, Bay Odegaard, Una Romine, Rosalie Sheldon, Jamari Tate, Serenity VonWeller, Summer Wells, Lucia Worhatch Mrs. Martin Kindergarten: Freya Fenner, Brylynn Fletcher, Devyn Flint, Shane Gilbert, Aidrick Glass, Arya Holmgrain, Cora Hyer, Kendyl Lachapelle, Evelyn Litster, Cedar Littleton, Lydia Morrison, Declan...
August 10, 1917 – The council met and adjourned for lack for quorum Monday and Tuesday evenings. On Wednesday evening all were present, except Councilman Jorgenson, who was out of town. Considerable time was devoted to discussion of Ordinance No. 42, prohibiting the carrying of intoxicating liquors to houses of ill-repute and also making it a misdemeanor for inmates of such houses to appear upon the streets within the corporate limits of the town. The matter was finally deferred to future meeting pending further legal advice. August 14, 1942 ...
August 3, 1917 – Captain C.M. Poncin arrived here on the launch Onawa and has spent several days inspecting boats and issuing the special licenses required by a recent order of the navy department. The order applies to all craft of over three tons capacity, and each boat licensed is furnished, for identification, with a number, which is to be painted on both sides of the stern. It is reported that several boats suitable for patrol service may be taken over by the government, among them being one launch owned here and a couple at Ketchikan. A...
