Sorted by date Results 1946 - 1970 of 3948
April 19, 1918 The Marathon Fishing and Packing Company, of Seattle, has arranged with the Citizens’ Wharf Company to locate their floating cannery barge Amelia at Petersburg this season. The barge will be moored at the south end of the Citizens’ Wharf, and preparations are made to put up a pack of from 30,000 to 40,000 cases. The company will operate their own seine-boats and also buy from independent fishermen. April 16, 1943 The showing of moving picture films from Camp Little Norway, sponsored by Petersburg branch of Camp Little Norway Ass...
April 12, 1918 The shipping of halibut is at present badly handicapped on account of there being no ice available. N. Nelson states that during his sixteen years’ residence here this is the first time that LeConte glacier has been frozen up and inactive so late in the season. Until recently snow made a fair substitute for ice in packing fish, but since the warmer weather and rain softened up the snow this source of supply has become unsatisfactory. Eighty-three boxes of fish were shipped from Scow Bay the first of last week, and 26 boxes were s...
April 5, 1918 John Allen, who returned from Juneau last Friday on the Admiral Watson, brought word that Petersburg has been granted a customs office. His informant was Collector of Customs Pugh, who stated that he would be down here shortly to arrange for establishing the office. A letter of like purport was also received by Martin Kildall from Grand Trunk officials, who further stated that the steamers of the Canadian line would, when the office is opened, call at this port for business. April 2, 1943 It’s here at last, folks! Yes, the time fo...
We are indebted to former Petersburg Press and Wrangell Sentinel publisher Lew Williams, Jr. for providing stories, photos and information about both Petersburg and Wrangell newspapers. In addition to providing historic photos, Williams also provided entire chapters of a book he updated and edited, "Bent Pins to Chains; Alaska and its Newspapers." In the mid-1970s historian and author Evangeline Atwood was urged by Fairbanks Daily News-Miner executive Charles Gray and Ketchikan Daily News Publis...
We're proud of the work our employees accomplish to bring a new edition of the Sentinel and the Pilot to our readers each week. We have published this guide to the Wrangell Sentinel and the Petersburg Pilot to acquaint you with who we are and the how we do our jobs. We've also included photos and stories about the history of each of the papers. This guide explains some of our values and philosophies and how we operate our newspapers. We offer advice on how to get your stories and advertising mes...
Editorial pages are unlike any other pages in the paper, because they are reserved for opinions. News appears on other pages, free from opinions, except those of news sources that may be quoted from time to time. Reader’s opinions and the newspaper’s opinion both appear on the editorial pages of both newspapers. We even label the page as the “Opinion Page.” One editor wrote, “The front page is for the report of what others are doing. The editorial page is the report of what the editor thinks they should be doing.” An editorial is written by the...
Both the Pilot and Sentinel have special forms that help people give us news about engagements, weddings, birth announcements and obituaries. The forms list the types of information we publish and help us get the necessary information to write a story about the event. Photos may be submitted along with stories, news releases or with completed forms that we provide. Bring in several photos and we will select those that are of interest to us or that will reproduce the best. Photos must be...
Both newspapers welcome letters to the editor, particularly letters pertaining to local issues. Letters must be signed and be limited to 350 words or roughly a page and one-half of double spaced type. Writers should include a daytime phone number so that the editor may verify content and authorship. We reserve the right to edit letters for libelous material, length, taste and clarity. All letters are accepted and published on a space available basis. Letters become the property of the newspapers and will not be returned. Deadline for...
Since the Petersburg Pilot was founded, our mission has remained the same as that stated by its first publisher, Jamie Bryson. Bryson also published the Wrangell Sentinel. The Pilot is a publication dedicated to running news, features and photos about and of specific interest to Petersburg and southeast Alaska. We only run state, national and international news items that pertain to Petersburg’s interests. We strive to publish a newspaper that is “bright, newsy, entertaining and a responsible observer of the public affairs of the com...
A press release might be the best way to present news to us for publication. It’s not hard to do. Here are some tips to follow. Today, news releases can be sent to the paper by email. Keep it short. Space is limited in our small paper; so brief items have the greatest chance of being published. If we want more information, we will get in touch with the news release writer. Get to the point. The important information in your news release should appear at the beginning. This way editors can shorten news items by cutting from the bottom of the s...
Advertising is the bread and butter of both newspapers and makes up about 70% of our annual income. Since we are a business, it is important that we be profitable. If we aren’t, the bills would go unpaid and we would be out of business. Since both newspapers draw an average readership in excess of 6,000 people each week, businesses find the papers to be valuable publications in which to advertise their goods and services. We have three major types of advertisements in The Pilot and Sentinel – classifieds, display and legal notices. CLA...
Our reporters rely upon a variety of people to talk to them each week in order to report the news of the community. The police chief, city clerk, city manager, school principals, parents, children and many others all give us information each week that helps us write news report about this community. Our reporters are trained to ask questions about news events that people want or need to know about, and then to write a story about that news event. They are trained to listen, observe and write about that which they hear and see. Good reporters...
Taken from: Bent Pins to Chains Since 1930, the Petersburg Press had been printed on a drum cylinder press manufactured in the 1890s by D.B. Cottrell and Sons in Rhode Island. It printed eight full-size pages. The PRESS went to the new photo-offset method of production July 1, 1964, with page size reduced to a tabloid format measuring 11x17 inches. Most weekly newspapers including the Sentinel and the Pilot are printed in the same tabloid format. The Petersburg Press was the first hot metal Alaska newspaper to convert to offset. Its new...
