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Petersburg School District Superintendent Dr. Rob Thomason was awarded a Superintendent of the Year Award last week. Bruce Johnson, Executive Director for the Association of Alaskan Superintendents, presented the award to Thomason PSD staff during a welcome back school board meeting. “It is my great honor to announce that your superintendent, Dr. Rob Thomason, is Alaska’s 2014 Superintendent of the year,” Johnson said to an applauding crowd. Johnson said a selection committee sought nomin...
An entangled humpback whale continues to remain snared in a gill net despite a two day effort last weekend to free the animal. Don Holmes with the Marine Mammal Center in Petersburg received a call Friday morning about the snared whale in Frederick Sound. He and other volunteers were granted permission from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Association to assess the situation. “We found that the whale was completely wrapped on the flukes with the lead line draping across the back of the animal,... Full story
Petersburg police arrested Joshua Franklin and Brandon Estes on charges of 2nd Degree Burglary yesterday. Chief Kelly Swihart said his department began receiving multiple reports of break-ins around town the morning of August 28. “We came up with five commercial burglaries and one attempted burglary,” Swihart said. Wikan Enterprises, the Hammer and Wikan Grocery, AP&T, Petersburg Motors and Petersburg Parks and Recreation were all burglarized. There were also attempts to break into a trailer in the parking lot of the H&W Grocery. Swihart sai... Full story
Borough Assembly and Petersburg Medical Center hospital board members discussed the financial state of the hospital and funding assistance for capital projects from the borough last Thursday morning. The discussion was also directed at how the public will perceive a potential tax levy to help fund a hospital that has remained financially independent of the city, now the borough, throughout its existence. “The public has a healthy skepticism on the borough’s spending habits,” assembly membe... Full story
A sales tax ordinance review committee meeting turned into a larger discussion about the demographic status of the borough and its fiscal future. The borough tasked the committee to review its sales tax ordinance, specifically looking at the senior exemption and tax rates. Jody Tow, Borough Finance Director, outlined tax types, rates and revenues across Alaska’s communities. Petersburg’s sales tax is 6 percent—above the state average. Tow also outlined the status of Petersburg’s Senior Exemptions. There are 462 active senior cards across the bo...
After the warm weather that contributed to the death of more than 1000 King Salmon in Blind Slough earlier this summer, Crystal Lake Hatchery hasn’t incubated as many eggs as it would have liked. Kevin Chase, Crystal Lake Hatchery Manager, said it finished its third and final round of egg takes from its King Salmon return yesterday morning. “Our goal is a million and a half eggs,” Chase said. “Now we’re at 600,000 to 700,000.” Crystal Lake will receive eggs from other hatcheries, including o...
The parents of the bride, Susan Harai and Alan Murph and Robert and Marsha Aiken announce the wedding of their daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Aiken to Aaron Michael Butterer. The groom is the son of A. John Butterer and Elizabeth Heslin of New Jersey. The couple were married on June 18 at Mokuaikaua Church, in Kailua Kona, Hawaii. The bride's sisters, Jayne and Sophie Aiken, Diane, Julia, and Leesa Murph, and cousins Makayla, Hana, Kara, and Scotty Newman, her friends Tija Ozols and Chelsea...
Girls on the Run, an after school program will be held every Tuesday and Thursday after school for 24 sessions, beginning September 17. Attendance is expected, we will abide by school holidays, and the last lesson will be December 17. The program combines training for a 5K running event Saturday, December 14, with a healthy living and self-esteem enhancing curriculum. Registration packets are available in the Elementary Office. Packets are due Friday, September 13....
Pacific Lutheran University Kristin Neuneker was named to the Dean's List at Pacific Lutheran University. University of Denver Christopher W. Aiken was awarded a Masters of Science degree in Mechatronics Systems Engineering from the University of Denver....
A group of eight preschoolers from the Children’s Center became versed in the craft of log cabin building at Sandy Beach Park Tuesday morning. Dave Nauman, self-described Petersburg Parks and Rec “Maintenance Dude”, has been working since July to reconstruct shelter one at the park. He taught the kids about various tools used in cabin building such as a draw-knife—a double handled blade that cuts away the outer strips of a log. After cutting away shavings, Nauman passed out the “Curly Q’s” to th...
The Petersburg Police Department and other law enforcement officials took down a commercial marijuana grow operation last month. An official from PPD said investigators had been receiving complaints regarding drug activity around the 100 and 200 block of South Nordic Dr. After an investigation of an unspecified amount of time, police entered the structure the night of July 26 where they found growing materials, live plants and more than five pounds of marijuana worth a street value of $35,000-$40,000. Charges are still pending and the... Full story
Petersburg District Schools are ranked in the top 10 across the state and in the top 7 in Southeast Alaska after the Alaska Department of Education’s implementation of new performance standards last June. The new regulations come after the US Department of Education approved a waiver permitting the state to develop regulations that are, according to PSD Superintendent Robert Thomason “more rigorous” than the Common Core standards used by most of the states in the lower 48. “It’s still a measurement but it’s not as cut and dry, Draconian o... Full story
The Petersbug Borough Assembly approved a sales tax-free day scheduled for Saturday, October 5. Assembly member Susan Flint said sales tax revenues are ahead of budget this year and the time period would be good for residents. “October is a month where it’s pretty much residents living in Petersburg, or shopping in Petersburg,” Flint said. “I think it would be a better time to have it than when it was in May when we’re full of visitors.” The Chamber of Commerce Retail Committee proposed a sales tax-free day last May but the assembly re... Full story
August 16, 1913 – From Bellingham comes the news that a few days ago when the run of sockeyes was on, cannery tenders had a great deal of trouble in passing through Rosario straits, as the hulls slid over the slippery mass of fish which would get entangled in the propeller in such a quantity as to impede their progress. The crew of the tender Vermont returned with the decks covered with fish which they speared while on their way to the cannery. It is four years since such a run was on. “Grass-widowers” had better be careful and wash their...
The Petersburg Borough continues to deal with an aggressive sea lion that’s been bothering people in the harbors all summer. Mayor Mark Jensen wrote a letter August 9 in response to the National Marine Fisheries Service’s lack of assistance in the matter. “We find it unfortunate that the National Marine Fisheries Service is unwilling to take any active role in removing this threat to our children, citizens, economic base and our quality of life,” Jensen wrote in the letter. Harbormaster Glorian...
The Petersburg Planning Commission is writing a letter urging Richard Burrell to remove commercial and storage items from his residential property. During its August 13 meeting, the commission discussed how to handle Burrell’s zoning violation—an issue that hasn’t been resolved for more than a year. Joe Bertagnoli, Community Development Maintenance Foreman, said one day several things will move out and then a month later several more things move in to take their place. “It’s just kind of a holding pen for rotating stock. I want a firm plan...
As Petersburg continues to iron out its borough formation, the assembly will decide which committees and boards to dissolve or keep active. Boards to be considered for removal are; Transient Room Tax, Public Safety, Utility Advisory, Motor Pool, Parks and Recreation and Public Library. Those boards act as advisors to the borough and its corresponding departments. Although, they’re all on the chopping block, Borough Manager Steve Giesbrecht said several will likely stay such as the Harbor Advisory Board and the Library Board. During T...
U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski intervened on behalf a Wrangell daycare operator after a US Forest Service officer issued her a citation in July for picnicking with her daycare children at Middle Ridge in the Tongass National Forest. US Forest Service Law enforcement officer Doug Ault fined Marilyn Mork $375 for operating a business on federal land without a permit. Mork said former U.S. Senator Frank Murkowski caught wind of the situation, made a copy of the citation and sent it to his daughter, Senator Murkowski. Murkowski happened to be meeting...
Middle School Registration: 8th graders, Mon., August 26 from 8am-11:30 am and Noon-3:30 pm; 7th graders, Tues., August 27 from 8 am-11:30 am and Noon-3:30 pm; and 6th graders, Wed., August 28 from 8 am-11:30 am and Noon-3:30 pm. Middle School fees are $25.00 per student. Mitkof Middle School daily schedule this year: Classes start at 8:15 am every day and dismiss at 3:00 pm Monday through Thursday; early out Friday at 2:20 pm. High School Student Registration in the HS office: Seniors, Mon., August 26 from 9 am-3 pm; Juniors, Tues., August 27...
