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Joni and Camden Johnson dance at a concert performed by Gamble and the High Costa Living at the Sons of Norway Hall on Saturday....
A break in the rain and clouds gave way to a rainbow last Thursday, over the Petersburg Creek....
September 14, 1917 – Jacob Johnson, I. J. Erickson , and Dr. J. L. Buckley received notice last week that, upon recommendation of Governor Strong, President Wilson has appointed them members of the exemption board for the town of Petersburg. The appointments to the board, the governor’s letter states, are in the nature of a draft, and they are advised that the board will in all probability continue in existence during the period of the present war. “The duties of the local or city, exemption boards,” the instructions read, “are broadly,...
Cross Country seniors Erin Pfundt, Julia Murph, and Maddy Parker were honored at a dinner this weekend, hosted by Meghyn Parker....
The body of 24-year-old Jase Payne was found late Monday near a dock at Rocky Point Resort in Petersburg, Ending what had been a four-hour search by family members, state troopers and local police. Alaska Wildlife Troopers were notified at 6:52 p.m. on Monday that Payne was missing, last seen on the dock of Rocky Point Resort about 10 miles south of town. “Family members had been conducting hasty searches of the nearby Wrangell Narrows with no results,” wrote a press release from the State of Alaska daily dispatches. “Petersburg Alaska Wildl...
Aria Swanson with the cookies she decorated, all with a rainforest theme during an Rainforest Festivial event with Sally Dwyer at the Public Library on Saturday....
Kade Norheim looks at fungi during a Rainforest festival event called Bioblitz at Sandy Beach Park on Sunday. The kid-friendly event was hosted by Ron Hamill, Joni Johnson and Karen Dillman....
Pia Reilly, left, is an artist from Petersburg who had a joint gallery show on Friday with Kerstin McKee of Issaquah, Washington. Both born in Sweden, McKee said she gravitates toward sensual details of nature in her acrylic paintings. She also featured hand-made pottery, which she favors equally with drawing. Reilly, whose large photo hangs behind, said living Petersburg brought out the color in her work, adding that despite being asked all the time, it is difficult to quantify how long it...
A Blue Heron studies its reflection in the water along the shoreline....
September 7, 1917 – When the period for military registration in Alaska closed, 189 men between the ages of 21 and 31 had received cards from Registrar Otness. A summarization of the cards show that of the 145 citizens and declarants who registered, 101 ask no exemption, 33 have dependent relatives, and ten, including officers of the geodetic survey, indicate occupational exemption. The remaining 44 of the total are aliens, two of whom are from enemy countries. So far as reported, all residents of Petersburg subject to registration are b...
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...
