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A 2016 fiscal and legislative survey was sent to constituents across District 35 soliciting input and feedback on the fiscal crisis and other issues Alaska is facing. The only problem is – the wrong link was in the survey. The survey erroneously included a link to jkt.com/survey. The correct URL is repjkt.com/survey. Rep. Kreiss-Tomkins' office would be grateful for your feedback, either online through the corrected link (repjkt.com/survey), or the paper survey....
January 22, 1916 – The red-light buoy in the Narrows was broken away from its anchorage by ice the first of the week and drifted about to various locations. The mishap was reported by wireless to the proper authorities, and the tender is due here today or tomorrow to replace the light. Work is to start next week on repair of the dock at Tonka, on completion of which the Packing Company's wharves in Petersburg will be given an overhauling. January 24, 1941 – Petersburg is to have a Cold Storage plant. Costs and estimates were submitted at the...
During the January 19 Petersburg Borough Assembly meeting, Petersburg Borough Manager Steve Giesbrecht reported the following: Power & Light has completed the major re-write of our Emergency Action Plan required by FERC for our Blind Slough Hydro. A tabletop exercise to familiarize plan holders with the new document has been scheduled for January 21. The next SEAPA meeting will be held in Wrangell on February 11-12. This will be the first meeting of the new year, so there will be an election of officers. We will be having weekly diesel runs on...
January 15, 1916 – The engines for the lighting plant arrived on the Senator; also pipe for running fuel oil from dock to power-house, and the oil tank is due here next week. When the blue prints are received, concrete foundation for the engines will be put in. It will probably be a month or more before the plant is ready for operation. Through mistake of shippers, one engine will have to undergo some alteration before it is used. January 17, 1941 – The local branch of the International Longshoremen's Union went out on strike Wednesday as the...
Tiffany Foss guessed the exact amount of rain that fell in Petersburg over the course of 2015. According to NOAA data, 135.99 inches of precipitation soaked the streets and muskegs of Petersburg making 2015 the second rainiest year on record. The Petersburg Chamber of Commerce sponsors the Rain Game Classic and sold 633 tickets this year, splitting those sales with Voss, who took home $575. NOAA measures its data from equipment at the airport....
January 8, 1916 – The army department has been trying for some years to switch the lines over to the postoffice officials, who heretofore have been reluctant to take charge, as they have always been operated at a loss. Postmaster General Burleson has been won over to the proposition, and will soon ask congress to turn the cable military telegraph over to him. Burleson recommends that the cable and telegraph and telephone wires be appraised by the interstate commerce commission and turned over to him before July, 1916. Congress will be asked t...
State representative Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins will be here January 14 – 15. On Thurs. Jan. 14, he will hold public office hours from 3 – 4 pm at Glacier Express and from 4 – 5 pm at Java Hus, no appointment necessary. If you have any questions or can’t make it to office hours, email rep.jonathan.kreiss-tomkins@akleg.gov or call the Representative’s office at 747.4665....
December 25, 1915 – According to a letter received by the Report this week from Nels Nelson, who has been transacting business in the Puget Sound cities for several weeks past, the Glacier Fish Company, of Tacoma, are evidently satisfied with the experimental trial of buying and shipping fish from Petersburg, and are now ready to take up the business much more extensively. Mr. Nelson says, under date of Tacoma, December 11: “I wish the Report to announce that I am going Petersburg and to take up the fish business for the Glacier Fish Company on...
December 25, 1915 – At the council session on Monday evening it was decided to purchase fuel oil in bulk for use in the light engines, the oil to be pumped by the steamer delivering it from the dock to a storage tank at the power-house. A communication from the Border Line Transportation Company to K. L. Steberg was read in which the company offers to deliver oil to a storage tank at the power-house at $1.80 and $1.90 per barrel. The committee reported that 1,800 feet of pipe would be required to carry the oil from either dock to the p...
Winners of the 2015 Christmas Decoration Contest were announced by the Chamber of Commerce. Matt and Jennifer Bryner won the Home Category. The “Sparkling Sandy Beach” Neighborhood entry (Sally and Al Dwyer, Matt and Jennifer Bryner, Terri and Rob Swanson, Sue Paulsen, Cat Ohmer and Vic and Kathleen Trautman) took top prize. Jim Roberts won the Boat entry, and Sons of Norway won for organization/church category. Lee’s Clothing won the Business category. According to Chamber Administrator John Havrilek, “We had to go back through 2-3 times t...
