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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....
MATCH is a new and free program that provides college and career counseling starting in each student's hometown, followed by a week of college and career awareness training in Juneau from April 10 - 14, and the possibility of attending Juneau Construction Academy training thereafter. MATCH is free and open to Southeast Alaskans aged 18 and over who are out of high school. Diplomas are not necessary. Applications are due March 17. Contact SERRC at: www.serrc.org/careermatch, (800) 478-6660 or...
March 9, 1917 – James H. Wheeler of Wrangell closed a deal the first of the week for the purchase of the stock and fixtures of Dr. Pryer’s drug store and has now taken charge of the business. Mr. Wheeler has been in the drug business in Wrangell for about eighteen years. He will now conduct the stores in both towns, giving his personal attention to keeping up the stocks to meet requirements of the trade. Dr. Pryer plans to leave shortly for the east, to take a post-graduate course at medical college, after which he will return north and resume...
March 2, 1917 – Mayor Pryer received by Tuesday evening’s mail the satisfactory news that the townsite of Petersburg is to be surveyed, which is the first step toward granting patent, and gives a reasonable assurance that the holders of lots may, after the survey is made and accepted, and patent applied for and granted get clear title to the property from the government. The letter is from Attorney John Rustgard of Juneau to whom the council had referred the townsite problem. Mr. Rustgard writes: “By today’s mail I received a letter from Ju...
