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Nestled beneath the gray clouds is Gina Esposito's art project-a garden filled with color which has blossomed into her favorite space. Gina knew she wanted to garden when she first moved into the house on Lake Street where she now lives with her husband Paul Olsen and their two children. The garden has had many incarnations, but work began on it in 2009 starting with dirt and tarps before putting in raised beds and a fence around 10 years ago. Since then she has gone on to add raspberry beds, ba...
"We were back and forth and back and forth about the wisdom of building," says Sharon Hunter. "It takes a while...it's like childbirth. One must forget what goes into the endeavor." Brad and Sharon Hunter built their first house back in 1990. A fine house where they raised their family. That house, up on Vesta Street, is now owned by their daughter Margaret and her husband Jesse Agner. And when their children had graduated into adulthood and Brad and Sharon reached retirement age, their...
"It started with a free slide we got from our day care," said Alesha Jabusch. The Jabusch family - Jake and Alesha and their two young daughters Devyn and Dawson - had this slide, a bright yellow spiral tube slide in good shape, and they had some room on their property along South Mitkof Highway and a dream of someday making a special playground or a least building a platform to support the slide. What brought the dream to life was a visit to Petersburg earlier this year from Alesha's uncle Ron...
From all indications thus far, Gordon the dog loves the house his owner, Colette Peters, recently designed and built on Sandy Beach Rd. It's the two-story red and black house on the uphill side between Hungry Point and the Whale Observatory, so it's not out the road but still maintains an "off the beaten path" aspect that she finds appealing. Peters, 31, moved here five and a half years ago and decided to make things permanent because she enjoyed the community and the people. She describes the...
This is not the first time Kelly and Toby Bakos have flipped a house, but hopefully it is their last. Kelly and Toby moved into their "forever home" around two years ago and have been steadily pushing through their remodeling during the pandemic. They have gutted the interior-floors, walls, the kitchen-but there is still much work to do and because of the struggle of sourcing materials, much of Kelly's focus has been on developing their garden. When they moved in, they found the outdoor space...
If you're down on Dock St. and happen to notice a float house moored on the left, before the United States Forest Service and United States Coast Guard, that's just Dan and Robyn Cardenas and their two young boys, Roman and Syris. "It's pretty chill," Robyn says. "We're looking at Piston and Rudder, so we see the boats come in and out that are being worked on, and it's kind of fun because my two-year-old loves it when the float planes land or take off." It's busy, but it's not too loud. More...
August 11, 1922 Deputy Neil MacGregor and W. R. Norwood had narrow escapes from death last Saturday while attempting to secure pictures of Le Conte glacier when their boat was swamped by an iceberg which broke off from the bottom of the glacier and came up underneath the boat. MacGregor and Norwood left Petersburg Saturday morning in a row boat with an Evinrude and arrived at the glacier early in the afternoon. Going in close to the glacier, Norwood landed on a small shelf of rock while MacGregor cruised along the face of the glacier in the...
August 4, 1922 Cascade Creek is Second Yosemite — It is getting to be quite the fashion among Petersburg people to make the trip to Thomas Bay and up Cascade Creek to the two lakes it is proposed to develop for water power. The trail is a good one from the beach to the lower lake and the going is not too hard for good hikers between the two lakes. Those who made the trip recently are very enthusiastic about the scenery and claim that it rivals the famous Yosemite Valley. Last Sunday Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Rayner and Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Perkins m...
July 28, 1922 Candy Men Spend Day Southbound – The steamer Spokane, with a Confectioners Convention on board, was in Petersburg from early Monday morning until late that night. During the evening a ball game was played between the team on board and the town boys which resulted in a 12 to 3 score for the locals. In the evening a dance was enjoyed at the Pioneers Hall. The Spokane arrived at an early morning hour and landed at the Mitkof Cannery where several thousand cases of salmon were loaded. The visitors on board had ample opportunity to i...
July 21, 1922 At the city council meeting on Monday night a committee was appointed to locate a new cemetery site. It was pointed out that the old cemetery was inaccessible except at low tide, that the survey has become obsolete, the location of lots and graves being unknown, and that in general it would be almost impossible to get it straightened out. It was pointed out that a sand and gravel ridge parallels the Narrows between Petersburg and Scow Bay and that if a location can be secured the ground is deep, well-drained, sightly, and...
The Petersburg Lutheran Church announces that Bev Siercks is the newly appointed President of the Church Council. Siercks has on two prior occasions served on the council for a total of 14 and a half years and chaired committees on evangelism, worship, scholarships and now building maintenance. Siercks is a happily retired math teacher and volleyball coach who taught 20 years in Petersburg and, before Alaska, taught 17 years in rural North Dakota where she also took a three-year course to...
Joseph Tagaban was surprised by family, friends, and teachers at the airport Wednesday afternoon before what he thought would be another trip to Seattle for a medical appointment related to his cancer treatments. The group revealed to him that in actuality, his wish was going to be made true by the Make-A-Wish Foundation and ESPN and he was about to leave for California to meet five-time NBA All-Star and four-time NBA champion Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors. "This is crazy, that's...
July 14, 1922 That the development of the Cascade Creek water power at Thomas Bay on a big scale is probable within the next year is the statement of D.C. Doherty, holder of the temporary permit from the Federal Water Power Commission who returned from there on Thursday. “In fact we have been investigating Cascade Creek for the past two years and all the figures secured from the preliminary surveys look favorable and now, after looking it over, it is even better than we thought. In fact, it is almost too good to be true,” he said. In reply to...
July 7, 1922 For the first five months of this year, shipments from Seattle to Alaska totaled 77,936 tons as compared with 34,410 tons for the same period last year, a gain of 43,526 tons or 126 percent. The shipments this year represent virtually 39 cargoes of 2,000 tons each, a gain of 21 cargoes over the same period last year. July 4, 1947 Salmon continues to come in slowly. Approximately 18,000 pounds of salmon, from trollers and packers, has been brought into Petersburg this week. This is a small catch and reflects the present scarcity of...
Volunteers, many from the Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department, spent the week leading up to the Fourth of July preparing the annual fireworks show. They gathered at the ballfields Sunday evening to set up the shells, mortars, and a new wireless firing system. The system is being used this year partially thanks to $1,000 in prize money awarded to Dave Berg by the Petersburg Community Foundation after he was named Petersburg Community Volunteer of the Year. Prior to the show, Berg linked up a...
Watermelon Eating Contest: Ages 4-8: Nick Hanner Ages 9-12: Emi Anderson Ages 13-17: Reid Ruecker Ages 18-up: Alex Shugarts Hot Pepper Challenge: Sajjan White Water Jousting: Ali Kittams, Molly Wolf, and Alex Shugarts Diving for Marbles: Tavyn Cabral & Eli Anderson Messy BBQ Wing Eating Contest: Ages 4-8: Atlas Short Ages 9-12: Emi Anderson Ages 13-17: Eli Anderson Ages 18-up: Alex Sugarts Four Legged Race: Ages 9-12: Molly Wolf, Jozlyn Turland, Eden Benavidez, Isabelle Hammer Ages 13 and up: Alex Shugarts, Kuaola Emmsley, Andrina Healy, Sam...
