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Whereas high school graduates once felt compelled to enroll in college the fall after receiving their high school diplomas, nowadays a greater number of teens are opting to take time off between graduating high school and going to college. Known as a ‘gap year,’ this trend has become increasingly popular in recent years. According to the American Gap Association, attendance at Gap Year Fairs, which aim to bring together Gap Year organizations, interested students and parents, has increased by 294 percent since 2010. While there are no sta...
Twenty-eight Petersburg High School seniors will be graduating on Monday, May 24. Back row from left to right: Keston Lyons-Cardenas, Colby Snovell and Max Marohl. Middle row from left to right: Isaiah Slaven, Kingston Buckner, Liam Demko, Tristan Enriquez, Owen O'Brocta, Issac Vinson, Julian Cumps, Brennan Skeek, Mattias Volk, Brekin Davis and Aiden Luhr. Front row from left to right: Shayla Madole, Julie Olsen, Aaliyah Felizardo, Lydia Martin, Sage Johnston, Annie Christensen, Leesa Murph,...
Petersburg High School crowned their 2021 prom court on Monday. Annie Christensen was named prom queen and Aiden Luhr was picked as prom king by the senior class. Prom was supposed to take place outdoors, due to COVID-19, but after surveying the student body, the junior class decided against hosting prom this year, according to prom advisor Ginger Evens. From left to right: Julie Olsen, Max Marohl, Allie Davis, Brennan Skeek, Christensen, Luhr, Sage Johnston, Julian Cumps, Leesa Murph and...
May 13, 1921 The Petersburg Packing Corporation will operate the Petersburg cannery full blast this summer and is making preparations for 90,000 cases of all classes of fish. Oscar Nicholson, superintendent of the cannery, arrived from the south on Wednesday, accompanied by a crew of 36 men, and trap men. Work on trap driving will start at once and eight traps will be driven, if weather and conditions permit. The cannery crew will arrive during the latter part of June and will consist entirely of Japanese, as on account of the short season, no...
Julian Cumps, left, and Julie Olsen, right, were the Petersburg Elks Lodge's students of the year for the 2020-2021 school year. The Petersburg High School seniors were honored in a virtual dinner on Monday....
Ashley Eilenberger took second place in the middle school division of the Alaska Stock Market Game for the spring semester. As part of the competition, students had to study the stock market and make investments in an online game....
Maddy Gilpin, left, and Britin Coulson, right, held an enamel jewelry demonstration on May 7 at Inga's Galley. Pictured above, the two Petersburg High School juniors are sifting powder enamel onto copper blanks with small sifters, setting them up on stainless steel trivets and torching them with butane torches, according to Ashley Lohr, PHS' art instructor. The enamel then stuck to the copper and created a smooth, glass finish. Gilpin and Coulson have been meeting as a jewelry club since late...
The Petersburg Borough has set up two public restrooms in the Municipal Building parking lot ahead of the Little Norway Festival. The restrooms will be open from 8 A.M. to 8 P.M. and be cleaned twice a day throughout the festival, according to Utility Director Karl Hagerman. They will then be locked up until the start of the cruise ship season in June, though they may reopen sooner if the borough can come up with a workable plan to regularly service them. The Borough Assembly approved the...
May 6, 1921 The power boat Pilot was on her last trip when while setting the gear outside of Cape Spencer, near the reefs a storm came up and the rudder shifted and sprung the upper bolts so that they could not be put back. The anchor line also broke and the men aboard labored as best they could with the clumsy emergency rudder and sails, white foam dashing over the boat and breakers on every side. After battling over 24 hours, with every man aboard exhausted, as tho’ by a miracle, they reached the harbor. After getting in shape again they m...
Sam Caulum, with Petersburg Municipal Power & Light, hangs a banner on the lamp post at the corner of N. Nordic Dr. and Gjoa St. on Monday. Eighteen banners were hung along Nordic Drthe ., Harbor Way and the north end of Sing Lee Alley ahead of the Little Norway Festival and will stay up throughout the spring and summer seasons. The Petersburg Chamber of Commerce owns the banners, but PMP&L lends the chamber its staff and bucket truck to hang up the banners each year, said Utility Director Karl...
A snow covered Bear Claw Mountain reflects into the Wrangell Narrows at 7 A.M. on April 3....
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This man's copper Double Wolf Cuff was created by Mary Goddard, Tlingit artist from the Eagle Clan and Brown Bear House. The cuff is hand-carved, shaped and cut by Mary, and uses formline - a style incorporating curves, ovoids and other shapes into flowing designs. Formline design is used in Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian cultures to depict events, creatures, clan crests or other objects. Goddard was raised in Yakutat and learned from her mother Jennie Wheeler, who is also an artist. The Museum...
Jack Slaght, right, and EMS Coordinator Josh Rathmann, left, drive the Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department's Model A fire truck to Scow Bay on April 14. For the past year and a half, the truck had been in Juneau, getting a new paint job by SS Auto Body & Paint. Assistant Fire Chief Dave Berg said the paint job cost between $10,000 to $12,000. Slaght, who performed a major overhaul of the engine in 2014, took the truck to Juneau and brought it back on April 14 on the ferry. "I personally think...
April 29, 1921 The Petersburg-Scow Bay road will be surfaced and finished for auto traffic this summer and that work will start within the next month is the assertion of John Lanterman foreman in charge who arrived from the south within the past week. April 26, 1946 Fishermen will leave for the fishing season early next week in preparation for the opening of the halibut fishing on May 1. For the first time in four years there are a number of young men in boat crews as returned veterans, many of whom are also veteran fishermen. An estimated...
Amy Wilkes' third grade class picked up enough litter on two streets near Rae C. Stedman Elementary School to fill up a trash bag on Earth Day, April 22. From left to right: Hakon Eddy, Alex Deberry, Silas Stanton Greogor, Tori Miller, Nadia Joekay, Devyn Flint, Andrew Ayriss, Jamari Tate, Gillian O'Soup, Kyra Chrissley and Declan Olsen....
For the past several weeks, construction has been underway on the Vakker Sted affordable housing complex at the corner of Excel St. and N. 2nd St. According to site supervisor Marsha Birchell, with Burlywood, Inc., crews have laid the footers and foundational walls of the building. In the coming weeks, a crew of framers will begin framing the first floor of the apartment building, she said....
Rock-N-Road Construction, Inc. excavates along Mitkof Highway near the site of the Scow Bay pump station one replacement project on April 23. The project cost $744,695 and was funded by a loan from the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, which was approved by voters in 2019. Utility Director Karl Hagerman said the pump station is being replaced to increase its wastewater pump capacity and keep up with the demand in the Scow Bay area....
Rae C. Stedman Elementary School staff handed out information to families on how to sign their children up for preschool, along with goodie bags filled with seeds, gardening books, hot dogs and other treats on April 23....
Samuel William McCallum weighing six pounds, four ounces and Bristol Lynn McCallum weighing six pounds, 10 ounces were born on April 4 in Seattle, Washington to Reba Temple and Seth McCallum....
Gage Aries Bullard weighing nine pounds, four ounces and measuring twenty-one and three quarters inches long was born on April 20 in Sitka, Alaska to George Bullard and Samantha Lindsey (Bullard)....
Working Against Violence for Everyone held an anonymous art show at the Clausen Memorial Museum from April 17 to 24. Hillary Hunter, of WAVE, said the art show featured 11 pieces created by survivors of sexual assault or other survivors as a means to express their emotions. Hunter said the artists used their art to show other survivors that their situation can get better or to process their pain and anger if they're currently experiencing sexual assault. "The people who attended the event were...
April 22, 1921 A chapter of the Mooseheart Legion will be installed in Petersburg within a short time by Mrs. Pritchett of Wrangell. The Petersburg women organized and applied for a charter some time ago and it is expected to arrive on every boat, the chapter to be instituted as soon as possible after it arrives. At the meeting held at the home of Mrs. Pete Jorgensen recently, Mrs Charles Pautzke was elected Senior Regent of the new chapter, and Mrs. Wm. Worth as Recorder. The new organization will have between twenty and thirty members. April...
A Public Works crew replaced planks in the Sing Lee Alley Bridge over Hammer Slough on Wednesday....
Commercial aviation in Alaska dates back to 1927. In 1936, Ellis Airlines was formed in Ketchikan by Bob Ellis. The fleet of 10 Grumman Goose amphibious aircraft were well-suited to travel in Southeast Alaska. Alaska Coastal Airlines of Juneau merged with Ellis in 1962, creating the largest fleet of Grumman Goose in the world. In 1964 one of the planes, which had a 50 foot wingspan, had an accident in Petersburg when a plane hit some wires. The airline's "West Coast" run included Ports...
