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Clinic for women’s health will be held Mon. May 22. Appointments are required. To schedule an appointment, call 772-4611....
April 20, 1917 - J. H. Scott arrived here on the City of Seattle and has taken charge, as superintendent, of the Doyhof Fish Products Company cannery. Mr. Scott reports that some extensive improvements will be made, including the installing of a second line of machinery and the erecting of new buildings, one of which will be a story-and-one-half structure 100x30 ft. Preparations have been made for a pack this season of 36,000 cases. April 22, 1942 – The complete retail line of building supplies owned by Mitkof Lumber Co. has been sold to R...
April 13, 1917 - W.E. Worth came in last Saturday from Whale Pass, where he had been employed for the past six months at the A. K. Foss logging camp. He had intended to return to Petersburg several months ago, but his boat froze in in December and the ice didn’t loosen up until the end of February. His non -appearance gave rise to a report that he was lost or drowned—now happily proven “greatly exaggerated.” April 10, 1942 – Under the direction of Carroll Clausen, local Defense Bond chairman, a Universal Pledge Campaign will get under way this...
April 6, 1917 - Sergeant McLaughlin has asked the Signal Service Office at Seattle for a second operator at the Petersburg wireless station. The business here now has increased to such extent as to make it a difficult matter for one man to handle it satisfactorily, and with the starting up of the canneries and herring fishing this spring the work at the wireless station will undoubtedly reach a volume entirely beyond the capacity of one operator. April 3, 1942 – The following proclamation designating the Territory of Alaska as a Military A...
Underground scanning equipment will arrive in Petersburg today to locate sewer lines that may have failed under the Wells Fargo Bank on Nordic Dr. Business Manager David Byrne said the ductile iron waste line sits beneath the 40-year-old building and has likely been rusting from both outside and inside the pipe. On Wednesday Reid Brother's Construction opened the line under the sidewalk and earlier a camera was used to inspect a portion of the line according to Byrne. Portable toilets were...
Sierra Strueli has been named to the Dean’s List at the University of Montana....
March 30, 1917 – There will be English services at the church Sunday morning at 11:30 o’clock; Norwegian services at 7 o’clock in the evening; Sunday school at 10:30 a. m. Good Friday, Norwegian services at 7 p. m. At this service the Lord’s Supper will be administered. March 27, 1942 – With one candidate filing for mayor, and one for the school board, the only contest in the city election, scheduled for Tuesday, April 7, is that for a place on the Town Council. Here there are five filings, with three councilmen to be elected. March 31, 1967...
March 23, 1917 – Ole and Peter Knutsen arrived home on the Spokane, Monday, after a several months’ visit in Puget Sound cities. They are now getting their barrel factory in shape for the season’s operations. Although hoop iron is still a scarce article, they managed to secure sufficient for a couple of thousand barrels, and also have some left over from last season. March 27, 1942 – Crews of the Alaska Steamship Company boats have been ordered by the post office department not to accept mail from anyone, unless there is a mail clerk aboared...
March 16, 1917 – A letter from J. L. McPherson, manager of the Alaska Bureau of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, gives details of the big excursion tour of Alaska being organized by the bureau-in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the territory as a United States posession. The steamers will be accompanied as far as v by boats and yachts of the Seattle Carnival Committee. “The greater interest of the visiting party,” Mr. McPherson says, “during the stop in Petersburg will undoubtedly be in sight-seeing and in viewing and learnin...
The Petersburg Community Foundation announces that the 2017 grant cycle opened March 13. Our community foundation acts as a charitable permanent fund to support beneficial projects in Petersburg. Between $12,000 and $14,000 will be awarded to a minimum of three organizations based on eligible applications received by 5:00 pm, April 17, 2017. Qualified non-profits are encouraged to seek funding for their community programs or projects by visiting petersburgcf.org....
