Sorted by date Results 3451 - 3475 of 3760
In July 1936, Petersburg’s main street was under construction. The previous street was built on piling and was surfaced with wooden planks. At this time, planks were removed and the street right-of-way was filled in with gravel. The building at the extreme left of the image, with a wood-rail balcony across the front was the local hotel, located where the Scandia House sits today. The construction firm of Stock and Wright which did the street construction work, offered to move the Wheeler Drug b...
The new Petersburg Public Library construction continues. The roof is ready to be shingled and the cement board siding has been installed under the roof overhang. The siding is starting to be placed on the outside back wall. Inside the building the walls are up and it's becoming easier to envision the completed library. Individual rooms are now separated from a sweeping central space where bookshelves will eventually be installed. “Storefront windows will separate a small meeting room and a c...
The borough manager reports that 60 persons have applied for the Chief of Police position. Manager Steve Giesbrecht said Wednesday the borough’s consultant has advised him by email that six Alaskans have submitted applications. Richard Fursman told Giesbrecht his firm will conduct video interviews with the top 18 candidates and narrow the search down to three candidates to be brought to Petersburg with their spouses for face to face interviews on the weekend of April 27. Giesbrecht said he hopes to offer an employment contract to the f...
The Salvation Army of Petersburg is hosting the 2013 Salvation Army's Alaska Congress. The Congress will be held from April 5-7 and will include worship, fellowship, meals, a couple of workshops and also “time for members throughout southeast to just celebrate the Salvation Army,” according to Lt. Caleb Fankhauser, Corps Officer of the Salvation Army in Petersburg. Over 200 participants from all over Alaska are expected to come to Petersburg for the event. The Congress used to be annual but is now held every two years and is in a different loc...
PHS Seniors Eva Kowalski and Patricia Jackson last month participated in the Distinguished Young Women program in Ketchikan. Eight young women participated in a week-long event formerly known as Junior Miss. The competition is to promote and reward scholarship, leadership and talent. The winner of the local event will compete on the national level in Mobile, Ala. The competition, was open to young women who have never been married or given birth, and met GPA and other requirements. Competitors...
March 30, 1983 – Petersburg has a reputation around the nation of being one of the top two places in the country for drug activity. The reputation is unfounded, according to members of the Petersburg City Council and Police Department, but the community still has to overcome the reputation. Still, hundreds of thousands of dollars of drugs go through Petersburg in a year. Police Cief Bob Oszman said the drug problem will never be stopped completely, but could be slowed quite a bit. He is committed to controlling the drug problem in the c...
SECON Construction completed drainage construction and back-filled the west side of Excel Street between the harbor office and Main Street this past week. Work continues heading north on North Nordic Drive where they will install storm and sanitary drains on the Coastal Cold Storage side of the street. State Project Inspector Jim Stolpe said the company is about a week behind schedule due to the recent freezing weather. He said SEACON’s concrete plant arrived in town and is being set-up. He e...
Alaska’s Board of Game took a step toward a potential wolf control program on Gravina Island recently when it directed the state to prepare an “operational plan” for the board to consider in March. Meeting earlier this month in Sitka, the board accepted the feasibility studies completed by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game regarding the potential for wolf control programs on Gravina Island and in limited areas near Petersburg to help boost deer populations. “We believe that this is a project that the department could accomplish and be...
Verizon is on its way to Southeast Alaska – just not for the foreseeable future in Wrangell or Petersburg. According to company spokesman Scott Charlston, the move to bring cell and data service to rural Alaska is in its first phase and that network facilities are currently in Juneau only. “It’s no secret that we have towers in Juneau and we can’t hide that,” Charlston said. “But, we are not poised to go into some of the more rural areas at this point. Wrangell and Petersburg would be in that. There might be something in phase two, but I have...
March 23, 1983 – Saturday was a perfect morning for collecting aluminium cans at the dump. The Boy, Cub and Girl Scouts collected the cans into two large vans. Jim Franzel, the Boy Scout Committee chairman, said this collection probably held 3,000 to 4,000 pounds. The full vans will be sent to Seattle. At 30 cents a pound, the collection is the scouts' main fundraiser of the year. This is the third year for the collection and Franzel said the scouts have collected about 25,000 pounds of aluminium. Petersburg General Hospital, the Moose Club a...
Bill Stedman and Rod Judy were named Alaska Aviation Living Legends last summer, but they have been so much more to those who have known them. Stedman is a lifelong resident of Petersburg and still lives in the childhood home that he shared with his parents and sisters. “The place has changed over the years, and I have done a lot of work to it,” Stedman stated. “But I have lived here all my life and really haven't wanted to be anywhere else.” Stedman attended Petersburg High School and worked...
During the regular meeting of the Petersburg Borough Assembly Monday evening, Petersburg Borough Manager Steve Giesbrecht reported that there are over 20 interested applicants for the police officer position and two potential Chief candidates from Alaska. “The police officer position is the position that Heidi will be vacating,” Giesbrecht stated. “We will be replacing that with an officer, not a Sergeant.” According the Giesbrecht, the two police chief candidates are from Alaska and have expressed a desire for the position. Giesbrecht also re...
After six weeks of competition, a winner for the first ever Losing Big Petersburg competition has been declared. Christin Fankhauser is the first “Biggest Loser” of Petersburg. According to Petersburg Parks and Recreation Director Donnie Hayes the resounding number of votes for all of the contestants was phenomenal. Fankhauser is the winner of a one year membership to Petersburg Parks and Recreation; an iPad from a grant that was partnered by Parks and Recreation and the Petersburg Schools; a n...
Petersburg High School Junior Diane Murph is well on her way to earning the highest award for Girls Scouts, the Gold Award. The Girl Scout Gold Award represents the highest achievement in Girl Scouting. Open only to girls in high school, this prestigious award challenges the student to change the world, or at least their corner of it, and be eligible for college scholarships, too. By the time the final touches are put on this seven-step project, a problem will have been solved, not only in the...
Koven Daniel Musewski-Teas was born on Feb. 25, 2013 at 9:20 a.m. in Anchorage, Alaska to Chellsey Musewski and Kory Teas. He weighed 7lbs and was 18 inches long....
A bright rainbow on Sunday morning appeared to touch down at Ocean Beauty Seafood’s Petersburg processing plant....
March 2, 1983 – The Crystal Lake Hatchery staff has a proposal before the Alaska Legislature to double their rearing capacity. Jim Billi, hatchery manager, told a large crowd of fishermen and interested townspeople at the February 18 meeting at the Counciil Chambers that it would only take a capital outlay of $3,000,000 and an additional $75,000 operating expenditure to do this. At the present time 800,000 kings and over 2,600,000 cohos are hatching out at the hatchery, Billi said. The hatchery will be releasing these smolts from 1981 a...
The Petersburg Parks and Recreation Department began the very first Losing Big Petersburg competition just a little over a month ago with 10 contestants. The competition is now down to six with the loss of Ken Caulum last week. The Losing Big Blue Team was on the chopping block again for the second week in a row. Carrie Bullar, again, won the community vote giving her the extra 50 points that are available. "Ken was a strong competitor for this program," Petersburg Parks and Recreation Director...
