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Christmas carols and hymns have been a big part of holiday cheer for hundreds of years. This holiday season grather your family and sing along. You know the melodies, and we’ll provide the words if you need a reminder. JOY TO THE WORLD Joy to the World , the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King; Let every heart prepare Him room, And Heaven and nature sing, And Heaven and nature sing, And Heaven, and Heaven, and nature sing. Joy to the World, the Savior reigns! Let men their songs employ; While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains...
Saturday DEC. 20th: Miele Gallery & Pilot Publishing 2-4 pm Fisherman's Net 2 - 4 pm Sunday, DEC. 21st: Sons of Norway 2-4pm Clausen Museum 1-3pm Monday, DEC. 22nd: Tides Inn 12-2pm Health Center 2pm-? Tuesday, DEC. 23RD: WAVE 11am-2pm (22 Sing Lee, Suite 1) Wells Fargo 12am-1pm Alaska Airlines 10am-2pm GCI 1-3pm Lee's Clothing 3-5pm Papa Bears 11am-1pm Kito's Kave 8pm-? Alesha Taylor Salon 4-6pm REACH 1-3 pm Wednesday, DEC. 24TH: Homeport Electronics 12 pm Hammer & Wikan 11am-2pm First Bank... Full story
December 12, 1914 – The Petersburg Weekly Report, a new publication with the first issue dated Dec. 5th. It is a neat and well put up sheet of six columns and full of local news items. It reflects great credit on the publisher, Lynn W. Miller. The ownership has been reported as being between the bank and a saloonkeeper of the town. Politically, independent, but admits being an ex-republican. His reason for choosing Petersburg for the venture is the confidence in the future of the town. To which we interpose no objections. December 8, 1939 ...
Borough Manager Steve Giesbrecht gave the following report to the Assembly at Monday’s regular meeting: Breakfast with Santa is Sat., Dec. 14 at 9 a.m. for the whole family. The Aquatic Center will be closed from Dec. 14-21 for its annual cleaning. The pools will be drained, the tiles cleaned and the upstairs waxed and buffed. There will still be fitness equipment available downstairs and staff will be bringing some of the equipment down to make sure there’s still enough for use during high traffic times. Public Works is still planning on com...
December 5, 1914 – J.C. Allen, ex-deputy U.S. Marshal for the Petersburg precinct is attending on the court as a witness. Mr. Allen will return home on an early boat. December 1, 1939 – Territorial Senator Henry Roden was a Petersburg visitor over the week-end. In a Press interview Senator Roden reported on the recent recommendations of the Territorial Fisheries Committee, made to the Congressional Committee following their joint hearings in Alaska the past summer. The majority report included: 1. Endorsement of Delegate Dimond's bill for the...
Local radio station KFSK went off the air on Wednesday due to fan-related transmitter damage from weather. According a statement on their Facebook page, the station is awaiting replacement equipment and preparing an alternate transmission line. Regularly schedule programming remained available by streaming online at the station's website and through other providers. There was no indication of how long it would take to fix the equipment and get the station back on the air....
November 28, 1914 – Miss A. Mary Mitchell, principal of the school of Petersburg, arrived on the S.S. Jefferson Thursday afternoon on a visit to her sister, Miss Neita Mitchell, for a few days. November 24, 1939 – About fifty persons attended the Elks dinner given at the Elks club rooms Tuesday night in conjunction with the formation of the town band. In addition to Elks members, band musicians from the high school and CCC were present. A splendid roast beef dinner was served and afterward brief talks were given on the desirability of hav...
Borough Manager Steve Giesbrecht gave the following report to the Assembly at Monday's regular meeting: The library landscaping request for proposals is planned for mid-December through January. The North Harbor project letter of completion was received on Oct. 29 and a final payment was made. Last week the abutment was poured and Tamico is currently securing the last girders on the Drive Down Facility Approach Dock. Rock-N-Road Construction has trenched the uplands and is working with...
Have Americans lost hope? The trust-deficit between them and their policymakers is distressingly large, with only 19 percent, according to an October Pew poll, who say that they have faith that the government will do what is right just about always or most of the time. Thankfully, not all is lost. Americans still have faith in some institutions, generally for those that truly protect freedoms and preserve livelihoods, like the military and small businesses. In fact, when it comes to job creation and the economy, Americans value the opinions of...
November 21, 1914 – For the interest of Alaska in general, and the southeastern part in particular, we suggest that every newspaper take up the laboring man’s part in the framing of laws for his protection at the coming session of our legislature. We specifically mention the laboring man because his environments, his conditions, his associations and tendencies do not afford sufficient advantages to compel lasting attention. The only time he is seriously considered is at election time, but this soon fades away and he is left to meditate ove...
November 14, 1914 – The U.S. Transport or cable ship Burnside arrived in port yesterday morning on her way south from a trip to Sitka and elsewhere, where repairs to the cable were thought necessary. Mr. Winter the Chief Officer of repair work when interviewed said that the trip had practically been useless from the fact that in fourteen days only one day had been considered safe to work on the cable. Due to the continuous stormy weather in that part of Alaska Mr. Winter said that further work on the cable for the present had been abandoned. I...
