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Gonzaga University Carolyn Kvernvik has earned placement on the Gonzaga University President's List for fall semester 2015. University of Minnesota Twin Cities Kristinn J. Thorsteinson, a junior at the Carlson School of Management, was named to the Dean's fall semester 2015 list at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities....
Highest Honor Roll 12th Grade: Joshua James Andrews, Ruby M. Brock, Kelly S. Engell, Stuart H. Medalen, Chauncy Nicholas Sandhofer, Kylie G. Wallace. 11th Grade: Casey A. Bell, Alexandra K. Bless, Emma Irene Chase, Ethan Tell Cummins, Sydney R. Guthrie, Izabelle A. Ith, Brandy M. Mulbury, Jason Ray Regula, Mariah D. Taylor, Cole Riley Young. 10th Grade: Flahavan H. Abbott, Kathryn L. Brock, Helen E. Martin, Julia S. Murph, Alice E. Neidiffer, Marissa A. Nilsen. 9th Grade: Alyssa B. Guthrie, Lora H. O’Brocta, Louden J. Sandhofer, Gillian L. W...
January 29, 1916 – Sergeant Wardell received word yesterday morning that his successor, Sergeant Michael McLaughlin, from Fort Worden, Wash, will arrive here on the next steamer from Seattle. Mr. Wardell will probably leave for the south next week. He is to go on duty in the cable office at Seattle. Fourteen degrees below zero, at an early hour last Saturday morning was the lowest temperature noted by Sergeant Wardell at the radio station during the prevailing cold snap. At six o' clock yesterday morning the mercury stood at zero. The t...

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...


