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Drivers along Sandy Beach Road have been pulling over and taking notice of an unusual visitor on the water this week. The largest single mast sailing yacht ever built has been anchored off the northern shore of Mitkof Island. Built in 2004 and refitted in 2013, the superyacht M5 measures around 255 ft long – longer than most of the small cruise ships that visit Petersburg during the summer – with a towering 290 ft mast and a keel down draught of 33.5 ft. A 29-ft tender is stored in the laz...
July 27, 1923 – Although he may have never “mushed” dogs, necked a sled, studied entomology in a roadhouse bunk or eaten rabbit all winter when he craved a porterhouse, President Warren G. Harding is a regularly ordained member of the Order of Pioneers of Alaska, he having been previously duly elected and presented with a certificate of membership during his visit to Juneau last Tuesday. E.J. White, president of Igloo No. 6, in presenting the certificate of membership, stated that Alaska had waited fifty-six years, or since she was purch...
July 20, 1923 – The big Evinrude race for the silver trophy awarded by the Evinrude Company was pulled off last Sunday and was won in decisive fashion by Sam Gauffin. The course was from town, around the black buoy, and then to Scow Bay where the channel beacon was rounded, and return. Gauffin had the race well in hand all the time. Neil MacGregor was second, Paul Lund third and Ed Locken so far behind that he did not finish the race. July 16, 1948 – In a report to the Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, president Earl Ohmer informed the members th...
July 13, 1923 – Two boats were added to the local fleet recently when the Dorn and Urania were launched and commissioned from Skog Shipyard opposite Scow Bay. The Dorn was built for Larsen and Peterson, owners of the Dorn Island fox ranch. She is 32 feet in length with a 9 ½ feet beam and powered with a 30 horsepower engine and is said to be one of the speediest boats of her class in this section. The Urania is a 60 foot boat built for Enge, Dehrdahl and Dan Molver and is powered with a 60 horsepower Fairbanks Morse semi-diesel engine. Both bo...
4th OF JULY COMPETITION WINNERS: 50 yard dash 6 & under Girls 1st - Emma Aikins 2nd - Stella Walker 3rd - Amara Westhoff Boys 1st - Owen Martin 2nd - Odin Burrell 3rd - Reilly Gacchina 50 yard dash 7-9 Girls 1st - Ivy Worhatch 2nd - Lucy Peterson 3rd - Emery Ledge Boys 1st - Jackson Zweifel 2nd - Caleb Westry & Luke Day 3rd - Grady Walker 50-yard dash 10-12 Girls 1st - Lucia Worhatch 2nd - Daisy Marrow 3rd - Jane Day Boys 1st - Devin Westry 2nd - Jamari Tate 3rd - Ryder Diehl Training Wheel...
July 6, 1923 – Two youthful “Penrods” weary of the humdrum routine of life in their hometown of Wrangell and determining to strike out boldly in search of adventure, boarded the Jefferson as stowaways on the last trip south of that boat, bound for the great outside world. By playing a skillful game of hide-and-seek, they managed to dodge the officers and members of the crew for a time, but finally an unkind fate brought the culprits to the attention of Captain Livingstone who, in spite of their boyish pleadings, wired Mrs. Jack Cool to meet the...
June 29, 1923 – Leonard Martins suffered a cracked bone in one of his legs and Leif Mathieson suffered a severely bruised foot last Thursday night, week, when a large wheel of an engine being installed at the West Lumber Company mill was tipped over and caught the boys as it fell. The two boys, with several others, were playing around the mill site and in some manner the wheel, which had been removed from the engine and set to one side, was pushed over and caught the two boys. Young Martins was removed to the hospital where his leg was d...
A recent addition to the Clausen Memorial Museum are these rosemaled panels installed on our outdoor gazebo, where visitors enjoy having a bright and cheerful place to stop and rest. The Muskeg Maleriers painted both the "Velkommen" sign and the flower panel in the Os style of rosemaling, or "rose painting," a distinctive style that surfaced in eastern Norway around 1750. It features fanciful flowers and bright colors rather than scrolls and is considered a newer style of rosemaling. A portion...
June 22, 1923 – Newt Casperson, well known business man of Ketchikan and Cordova, was shot three times by a prohibition officer at Ketchikan recently and is in the hospital recovering from wounds to his right chest, leg and hand. The shooting affair occurred about one o’clock Sunday morning when D.W. Flanagan, prohibition enforcement officer, attempted to raid an apartment above Otto Soberg’s store which the government alleges was the location of Casperson’s bootlegging joint. Dr. R.V. Ellis, who is attending Casperson, says his chances...
June 15, 1923 – The Commercial Club party, which visited Juneau to attend the Congressional banquet and to work for the dredging of the Wrangell Narrows, returned on Friday morning and those who went report a successful trip. Mayor Elsemore is reported to have made an excellent impression with his ten minute talk and the others in the party report that the Congressmen present gave him their undivided attention and were seemingly much impressed. It is felt by those who made the trip that excellent results have been accomplished by calling the ma...
June 8, 1923 – Work will be started this week by the Forest Service on the construction of a trail up Petersburg Creek from tide water to lake. This trail will be between five and seven miles in length and will make easy access of one of the better known fishing streams in Southeastern Alaska. June 4, 1948 – The halibut boat Cascade, skippered by Albert Strom, recently caught a record sebastodes huberrimus (red snapper to us) and has turned it over to the laboratory in Ketchikan. The fish was caught between Warren and Coronations islands on...
After 22 years of teaching at Stedman Elementary School, Gregg Kowalski is heading into a whole new world of learning-retirement. Kowalski could be found packing up his classroom last Monday morning, taking down inflatable planets and Tibetan prayer flags, moving well-used couches to other classrooms, and organizing shelves full of books that he will leave for the teacher taking his place next year. "It feels surreal. It's almost like I have to invent myself again, like being born again,...
June 1, 1923 – The Petersburg telephone system was cut in on Friday morning and is now working with twenty subscribers already connected up and more to be connected as rapidly as possible. Lilly Larsen is acting as central girl. Service is from eight a.m. to midnight, but within a short time the service will be from 5 in the morning until midnight. May 28, 1948 – A gift to Alaska from Seattle businessmen commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Alaska Gold Rush will sail from Seattle June 10. The gift will be the University of Washington Gle...
