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Kacey Hammer is stepping into her first official teaching role this fall as Stedman Elementary’s newest kindergarten teacher. Hammer is currently completing her Master’s degree in Elementary Education at the University of Alaska Southeast, working toward her K-8 certification. She’ll begin the school year on a provisional license while finishing her student teaching requirements in her own classroom — an arrangement that her UAS advisor encouraged. “He was like, ‘You’re ready,’” Hamm...
Newly college graduate Trinity Edwards grew up in Winnifred, Montana, population 150, and was looking for a place like Petersburg - a tight-knit community that supports its schools - as the place to start her teaching career. "I wanted a school that's going to be supported by the community," Edwards says. "Back home, our big thing was basketball too - the entire town showing up for games. It was going to be really important for me to have a community that was supportive of the school - like...
Life in small town Alaska will probably be a pretty smooth transition for Stedman Elementary's new fourth grade teacher Trevor Wilson, who grew up in Unalaska – an island community on the Aleutian chain similar in size to Petersburg -- where his father worked as a school principal. As a younger man Wilson had not wanted to follow too closely in his father's footsteps and didn't want to be a teacher. But when he went off to college at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana, he had a c...
After 16 years in special education and a recent year teaching in one of Alaska's most remote villages, Jocelynne Parker is bringing her passion for those needing extra support to Petersburg High School. Parker comes to Petersburg from Houston, Texas, by way of Nuiqsut, a village of 600 people on Alaska's North Slope, where she taught PreK through 12th grade special education for the past year. The transition from Houston to the Arctic Circle was dramatic, but Parker connected with the culture...
The elementary school's new counselor Dave Fonken comes to Petersburg from Southern Oregon. He says he found Petersburg's thriving school community and endless local outdoor recreation opportunities very appealing. "I was looking for a combination of a really healthy district with a lot of places to play," Fonken explains. "Both of those things really came together here." Fonken brings eleven years of school counseling experience to his new role. His journey in education began as a Spanish...
Alenna Nilsen has also been hired by the district this year. A former employee of the Petersburg School District who taught middle school social studies, Nilsen will be working with students needing academic interventions to prevent falling further behind and to support students needing credit recovery to meet graduation requirements. Nilsen was not available for an interview with the Pilot....
To register a new student, please stop by the office at 303 Dolphin Street by August 29. You will need to bring a current immunization record and birth certificate – a legible copy is okay. For questions, please call or text the office at 907-302-2385 or 877-526-7656, ext. 400 Mrs. Willis, Kindergarten: Padme Carr, Marit Dougher, Esmeralda Ford, Kenna Gillen, Eupha Marsden-Evenson, Ejah’Nay Mitchell, Scarlett Morrison, Mason Newman, Lydia Padgett, Grayson Tate, Ava Turcott, Maeve Uppencamp, Raiden Wagemaker, Arne Wollen Mrs. Hammer, Kin...
On Friday, David and Britni Woolley managed to go where few ever can, navigating their mini jet skiff through the labyrinth of ice and the hidden channels of the Baird glacial outwash plain to boat all the way to the terminus face of Baird Glacier....
August 21, 1925 – The Sales Inn will open to the public Saturday evening at 10 o’clock. There will be dancing and music and eats and everything. Jack Sales, who owns a chicken ranch in the new addition to Petersburg, has been working on the building for a year past. It was first two stories high, but when the framework was up a small cyclone came along and riled it up in ruins. The present building is one story high with hardwood floors for dancing and a large general dining room. There are also large dining rooms for private parties. Mr. Sales...
In Petersburg, more than 50 people gathered on Aug. 15 in front of the Federal Building downtown to protest the welcome by President Donald Trump in Anchorage of Russian President Vladimir Putin who has an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity including the abduction of thousands of Ukrainian children. Across the state, thousands more Alaskans participated in similar protests, expressing solidarity with Ukraine....
August 14, 1925 – Petersburg needs a cold storage plant. There is enough money here to build a $50,000 plant through cooperative work. The general opinion is that it would pay from the start. To build a bigger plant it would be necessary to get outside money. Outside money wants local people to put up 40 to 60 per cent of the money and assume all the risks with whatever profits there are to going to them. A large plant, moreover, would mean a high-priced expert from outside and a much heavier overhead. A smaller plant could be managed in c...
The faces in the black and white photos on display this month in the Clausen Memorial Museum tell the remarkable story of the homesteaders who settled Point Agassiz in the 1920s and 30s. A dozen children giggle on the steps on the little red schoolhouse. A prize bull watches over dairy cattle grazing in a meadow. Families harvest from large gardens. The Model T milk truck drives its route down a snowy road to the point for a milk delivery to Petersburg. "Recollections of Point Agassiz: The Life...
August 7, 1925 – There was a time when trollers in Alaskan waters lived on a crust of bread and enjoyed few luxuries and far between, but now ‘all the comforts of home’ are available for the fleet, even unto a fresh milk diet. For instance the Dairy and Grocery of Petersburg ships some 90 gallons of fresh milk on every mail boat to Port Alexander. Whether trollers do better on a ‘milk diet’ than they formerly did on ‘sourdough goulash’ or whatever they could rake together quickly on a gasboat for a meal, is something for the scientists to...
The Clausen Museum is featuring a special exhibit, "Recollections of Point Agassiz: The Life and Times of Point Agassiz Settlers" during the month of August. "The Point Agassiz News" was a regular column that ran in the Petersburg Press during the 1920s and 1930s, when nine homesteading families were building houses and barns while farming the fertile meadows between Clear Creek and Brown Cove on Point Agassiz. The following examples illustrate how the column detailed the comings and goings and...
The opportunity is growing for home builders in Petersburg to use locally milled Tongass timber in their new building projects. The sawmill on Falls Creek Road - Alaska Timber and Truss, owned in partnership by Brett Martin and Mike Duman - is offering complete home and cabin kits using locally harvested timber. The operation produces solid wall and timber frame cabin kits and larger stick-built home packages. "The cabin kits are kind of more of a traditional size ... generally speaking, under...
After putting her two-year-old daughter, Sonora, to bed, Jenna Wilson-Ashby picks green beans in one of her two greenhouses on a recent evening in Petersburg. It's her eighth year tending this garden, and she understands the ups and downs involved with growing food in Southeast Alaska. This year has proven to be a challenging growing season thanks to the continuous rain and cool temperatures throughout May and June. "That's okay, we'll try again next year," she says, describing how only 40 of...
Perched quietly above Petersburg Dental on S Nordic Drive, Cherise and Jay Lister's two-suite Inn, The Nordic House, might be easy to overlook from the sidewalk; but as visitors ascend the stairs and step into their newly renovated Hjem Suite, the transformation is immediate. Soft northern light floods the space from large windows framing deep blue waterside views, transporting guests into a world entirely removed from the streetscape below. What started as a simple lighting upgrade turned into...
"The best architecture reflects someone's worldview." This idea was one of the first things to come to mind for Linda Millard when describing the home she designed for herself and her husband Sam Bergeron on a quiet, wooded lot along Sandy Beach Road. Tall trees rise around the house that the two-a practicing architect and contractor-designed and built themselves; its charred-wood exterior blends into the deep tones of the Tongass rainforest, while broad windows open out toward the water...
“You’re in heaven for slugs here,” Casey H. Richart, Ph.D. told a Holy Cross House packed with farmers, when the Southeast Alaska Farmers Summit was held in Petersburg back in 2023. “They’ll graze your bok choy, your lettuce,” Richard told the grimly silent farmers. He described slugs as vectors of plant diseases, and pathogens to humans including E. coli, Rat Lungworm, and other infections that can lead to meningitis. On top of that, said Richart, “Slugs are an aesthetic pest. Slug poop is even less attractive than slugs, then there’s the hole...
From the street, it's hard to guess what's tucked beneath the roofline of Zach Peeler and Maura Moyer's sleek, gray, two-door garage near Hungry Point. What began as a simple workshop design-a place for tools and a space to store Zach's jet boat-evolved with their relationship. As the couple grew closer, the project grew as well, expanding from a bachelor's workshop into the pair's first home together. "[The living space] was going to be a lot more modest, tiny, like almost [just a room] in the...
I've called the Petersburg area home for four years now, and I can tell you this is not an easy place to be a gardener. Incessant rain, lack of warmth and sun, sour peat soil and hungry wildlife all seem to make growing anything other than moss and ferns an uphill battle. Gardening demands a lot of effort, and seeing your precious plants get eaten up or slowly drowned after all the time and money you spent nurturing them is truly disheartening. Can a fruit tree really be called that if it never...
July 31, 1925 – Owing to the great fleet of boats this year engaged in trolling for king salmon, it is said there are more boats than king salmon and that very little money has been made by individual fishermen as a rule. As the result, some of the trolling boats have been beating it to the Cape Flattery fishing grounds off the Washington coast. Among these boats are both Alaska and outside boats. Nels Sandvick of Petersburg recently laid up his boat here and left for Flattery with Oscar Hendricks on the Bernice. It is claimed by fishermen t...
The view on Friday morning of LeConte Bay seen from a floatplane flying over LeConte Glacier....
July 24, 1925 – Fishing banks now visited by vessels of Canada and the United States give promise of little increased production. The depletion of these banks is recognized by the two governments in their halibut treaty of May 31, 1924, providing for an annual closed season on the Pacific coast banks from November 15 to February 15. Halibut fishing is a joint enterprise between the vessel owner and his crew of fishermen. Certain items of cost are paid jointly while others are paid by one or the other according to agreement. The Pacific coast m...
