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Borough Manager Steve Giesbrecht presented the following report to the Assembly on Monday night. Joe Nelson and power and light staff are working on incorporating a thorough capital project plan into the electric rate study to better outline the needs of our electric system. Southeast Alaska Cities Against Drugs officials are drafting a letter to the Alaska Department of Transportation in an effort to partner with Alaska Marine Highway to curb illegal controlled substances being transported on state ferries. Postal interdiction efforts...
Dear Santa, I want a butterfly net and any toy from the frozen movie is my Christmas wish. Miranda Carr Dear Santa, I would please want a big metal toy excavator. I love you. I deserve a toy because I really want one badly. Ariston Warmack Dear Santa, I have been a very good girl this year. Here are some things I would like: American Girl Doll Kit Kitteredge and dog Kit Kitteredge’s bed American girl doll snowpant gear Kit’s summer dress Kt’s birthday outfit Kit’s holiday dress Kara Newman Dear Santa, I was so good everyday. Every single day I...
Here's Merry Christmas to our town (actually, to our borough) Lots of changes all around Farewell Miss Evans, but Stedman's back! We don't know who will pay sales tax. Ho, Ho, let's recycle now But no fish waste disposal At last it's gone---Main Street Gridlock Let's proceed to the Drive Down Dock! Big Happy New Year to our state Oil revenues down but salmon's great Parnell gave oil a big tax break Now how about the southern route power to Kake! Ho, Ho, Ho, let Walmart know Alaska salmon's...
December 20, 1913 – It is reported that the miners in the Forty-Mile river country witnessed pass the largest caribou herd in the history of the camp. It is said that it took the largest part of the herd four days and four nights to pass the mining camp on Chicken Creek. 3The moving of this extra large herd, estimated at hundreds of thousands, is believed to be a sure sign of a heavy snow fall the coming winter. December 15, 1983 – A few years ago a group of Petersburg fishermen and Petersburg Fisheries Inc. (Icicle Seafoods) reportedly exp...
Petersburg High School Junior River Quitslund, returned this summer from a ten-month student exchange program in Thailand. After applying for and being accepted by the Petersburg Rotary Club's Youth Exchange Program, Quitslund departed for Chiang Mai, a city in northern Thailand, in August of 2012. "It was really different than Petersburg," Quitslund said. "I don't know where to start." Quitslund began his 80-degree days, like most people, with breakfast. But, bacon and eggs or a bowl cereal...
Local artists Pia Reilly and Susan Christensen were among the participants in a printmaking class presented by the Petersburg Public Library and taught by acclaimed Seattle artist Mette Hansen. Hansen's art can be viewed throughout the library in the form of carvings and engravings identifying the Library's major donors....
The new oil paintings of Joe Viechnicki were featured at Miele Gallery on Friday night....
Don & Kären Cornelius shared the walls of Wild Celery to show their latest works for First Friday....
Golden king crab harvests are slightly down this season but prices for the shellfish are well above average. According to Alaska Department of Fish and Game data, the current golden crab price average is $10.10 per pound. That’s more than $2 more per pound compared to last season and nearly double the previous five-year average. This season’s preliminary golden crab harvest is 510,743 pounds compared to last season’s 599,234 pounds. Joe Stratman, ADF&G Region 1 Lead Crab Biologist, said the Southeast openings and closures are based solely on fi... Full story
December 13, 1913 – In the line of fish, Alaska has brought out almost every kind and has always found a ready market for its products, Petersburg has taken part to a large extent in furnishing a great deal of the supply. Now comes the news that W.H. Royden, the well known and experienced fisherman across the bay has started, on a small scale, putting up clams. Whether Mr. Royden has discovered a new process or whether it is the quality of the clams, the fact is that they are found by connoisseurs to be delicious. It is claimed by those who hav...
The Petersburg borough assembly unanimously voted in Bob Lynn by paper ballot to serve on the assembly seat left vacant by Sue Flint after she stepped down in early November. Lynn served on the committee charged with developing the borough charter the assembly now has the task to implement as it continues with borough formation. Lynn said he was actively against borough formation initially. “But now that it’s done, it’s time to move on and see what we can do to make the charter represent all the people who live in the borough,” Lynn said. Lynn... Full story
The Petersburg Borough Assembly is moving ahead with design work to remodel the police station and the municipal building. Prior grant funds cover $65,444 of the estimated $91,560 design cost. The rest will be taken from a borough contingency fund. Both the police station and the municipal building have been on the borough's capital projects list for two years. The municipal building was recently bumped up after it received a structural analysis late last summer, which detailed load-bearing...
The Petersburg Medical Center is asking the Borough for financial assistance with capital project expenses. This has caused the Assembly members to ask questions about the operations of the hospital concerning everything from the administrator’s recently amended employment contract, hospital indebtedness, investments and the procurement of construction contracts and change orders. At their meeting last month, the assembly refused to release the city attorney’s memorandum regarding the Petersburg Borough Relationship with Petersburg Medical Cen...
Long time Petersburg resident and former school district employee Tye Leif Petersen, 45, plead not guilty during an arraignment held in U.S. District Court on three charges involving child pornography. Petersen was arrested late October after federal investigators and local police conducted a search warrant of his home and electronic devices. Investigators found email attachments as well as CDs containing images and videos of young children engaged in sexually explicit behaviors. According to an FBI affidavit, last July an investigator...
The Petersburg Borough Assembly released to the public a redacted memorandum regarding some assembly member concerns and questions about Petersburg Medical Clinic policy making and its relationship to the borough. The memo was written by James Brennan, borough attorney, in response to those questions and concerns and was initially taken from public record until John Hoag, assembly member, voiced his concern over the action during a November 25 meeting. “I am troubled that the memorandum we received from our attorney regarding the Petersburg M...
Petersburg borough manager Steve Giesbrecht reported the following during its November 25 meeting: Work continues on the new electric system for the North Harbor. Peak usage on the Southeast Alaska Power Agency system is significant with the cold weather. Wrangell now has a system peak equal to Petersburg’s. Chief Swihart will attend the Executive Development Conference December 3-6 in Anchorage. The seminar will include various trainings as well as meetings for Alaska Police Standards Council, Alaska Association of Chiefs of Police. Jenna D...
Duke and Kate Klein and Rick and Sue Braun, announce the engagement of their children, Shawna Noelle Klein and Ian Fraser Braun. The couple are graduates of Northern Arizona University, Shawna with a BS in Secondary English Education and Ian with a BS in Civil Engineering. Shawna is currently employed as an English teacher at Coconino High School and Ian is employed as a civil engineer and land surveyor for C.D.E. Inc., in Flagstaff, Ariz. The wedding will take place in June in...
