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Borough Manager Steve Geisbrecht gave his report to the assembly at Monday's meeting. Replacement lighting at the South Harbor should be completed this week, including installation of the final five new fixtures and the removal of the old fixtures. Planning and design work is beginning on the possible replacement of the aging Cat electric generators. Replacement parts are no longer manufactured, and both units are reaching the end of their useful life. The borough is working with SEAPA and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to deal with...
August 15, 1914 – Dr. Hans Friendenthal, a famous professor of the University of Berlin, Germany, described the new woman as he thinks she will be evolved by suffragism and the higher education thus: “Brain work will cause her to become bald, while increasing masculinity and contempt for beauty of olden time will induce the growth of hair on the face.” According to the professor, in the near future, women will be bald and will wear patriarchal beards and mustaches. August 16, 1974 Celebrating Pilot's 40th Year – Petersburg's hydro-e...
University of Alaska Southeast-Juneau Danielle Lane Torrence graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Elementary Education from the University of Alaska Southeast-Juneau on May 4, 2014. Danielle is the daughter of Dan Torrence of Petersburg and Valerie Vlahovich of Fairbanks. She is currently employed at Gastineau Elementary School Rally in Juneau. She is a 2010 graduate of Petersburg High School....
August 8, 1914 – A few days ago Mrs. J Allen going out at the back of the house saw a young black bear. Surprised, she loudly called for Mr. Allen to bring a gun, but having got a warning, the cub and its hide are still intact as it took to the woods with great speed. All of which goes to show what a nice quiet community we have here. Even bears can approach our town without realizing they are near a great city. August 9, 1974 Celebrating Pilot's 40th Year – Peter and Spurg, two hand puppets, explained some of the mysteries of sea life to abo...
Petersburg Borough Manager Steve Giesbrecht presented his report to the assembly at Monday's meeting. Replacement lighting at the South Harbor is finally nearing completion. We plan to remove the last of the old fixtures during the high tide on August 13. The old fixtures are mounted on the pilings, which makes them difficult to access except at a high tide. Power and Light is ordering material and getting ready for the new line extension for the Drive Down facility. The borough is preparing to do a significant amount of right-of-way clearing t...
August 1, 1914 – An unaccountable late season has somewhat worried the cannery men up till now; and great apprehension was felt all along that possibly this year would also prove another failure. However, the last few days have shown better. Out of 8,000 salmon brought in Thursday evening at the company's cannery, 4,000 were sockeyes. The sockeye this season has helped considerably. Capt. Sanderson of the company's cannery tender, the Marian, said that nearly 4,000 cases of sockeye were already put up by the company with a bright prospect of a...
University of North Dakota Carly Tate, daughter of Daniel and Anne Tate, received an academic achievement scholarship from the University of North Dakota for the 2014-15 academic year. Carly Tate graduated rom Petersburg High School and plans to attend UND in the fall....
The Wrangell Sentinel welcomes its newest staff writer, Dan Rudy. Rudy recently arrived in Wrangell from Minot, N.D., where he worked as staff writer and evening editor for The Minot Daily News. He also has prior experience as a news cameraman for KXMC-CBS, as well as writing for his university and high school newspapers. His first experience in Southeast Alaska was as an Alaska Service Corps crew member with the SAGA-AmeriCorps program in 2010. As a corps member, he conducted trail work and...
July 25, 1914 – Workmen employed in blasting soft rock from a quarry in Connecticut recently came across a bit of rock which had been blown out about thirty feet underground which, when cracked, exposed a live worm that lived five days after it had been exposed to view. How long the worm had been occupying his cramped quarters is mere conjecture. July 26, 1974 Celebrating Pilot's 40th Year – Petersburg gets publicity in the strangest ways. It has come to our attention that the Department of the Interior, in a report on the subject of "Towing Ic...
The Parks and Recreation department will spruce up Outlook Park by landscaping and adding a bathroom, two barbecues and picnic benches. The work will take place in two phases during the next two years. "We are already pricing out trees and plants for phase one through the Flower Farm," Parks and Recreation Director Donnie Hayes wrote in a letter. "They are looking at having a chilled container shipped up from Seattle with the plants and trees that we are requesting." Hayes has budgeted $5,000... Full story
Borough Manager Steve Giesbrecht reported the following during Monday’s assembly meeting: The borough has seen increased littering and other activity in the Frederick Point area. We have assigned officers to extra patrol efforts in the area. Borough staff will meet with architects July 24 to discuss final design concepts for the police and municipal building renovation. Officer Williams is back from maternity leave. She and the baby are doing well and staff is happy to have her back. Assessor Mike Renfro arrived Friday and will be in town f...
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Tessa Hasbrouck, daughter of Terry and Sandy Hasbrouck, received the Chancellor's Leadership Award for 2014 from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. The award honors graduates who contribute significant leadership, demonstrate university or community service and display a commitment to personal growth. Hasbrouck is a biology and wildlife ecology-research and management major and an honors intern for the College of Natural Resources. She was treasurer of American Indians Reaching for...
July 18, 1914 – With the coming of the new federal reserve banking system will come new styles of paper money. Under the bank act each of the twelve federal reserve banks will receive advances from the federal reserve in the form of federal reserve notes, a distinctly new sort of money. Commercial paper will be the collateral advanced by the various banks as security for these notes. The treasury department has samples of this new paper money now under consideration, notes of $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 denominations. All will be printed in g...
