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PHS volleyball headed to the Juneau Invitational Volleyball Extravaganza or JIVE Tournament last weekend and faced some tough competition. It’s a tournament the players and coaching staff look forward to every year, according to head coach Jaime Cabral. “Good weekend overall, we got to play some of the bigger teams with Juneau-Douglas, Mt. Edgecumbe and Sitka. The ones we normally don’t get to see,” he says. “Playing against them, we were up on points and then kind of hit a couple parts where we tensed up a little bit.” Petersburg ended up lo...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller reported raising nearly $200,000 for his campaign during the latest fundraising period while independent Margaret Stock brought in about $150,000. While the reporting period spans from July through September, Miller’s campaign said his haul dates to early last month, when he entered the race as a last-minute replacement on the Libertarian ticket. Miller spokesman Randy DeSoto said the Federal Election Commission filing will be amended to account for at least $7,000 in in-...
This week, ADF&G Division of Sport Fish will begin mailing the first wave of 2016 Alaska Sport Fishing Surveys to Anglers who purchased an Alaska sport fishing license in 2016. The survey is sent to approximately 47,000 randomly selected Alaska resident and nonresident households having a person who purchased a sport fishing license or who holds a permanent form of license in 2016. Conducted every year since 1977, the Alaska Sport Fishing Survey is a scientific survey that asks anglers to recall basic information on the number of days fished...
NORTH POLE – Parents are urging the Fairbanks North Star Borough’s school board not to change the name of their children’s elementary school, although it bears the name of a strawberry farmer who was convicted of child rape in 1916. Parents, alumni and employees of Badger Road Elementary School argued against the change before board members Monday, The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports. The school is named after a major road in the community, but is also tied to the late Harry Badger. Board member Michael O’Brien is considering bringin...
SEARHC held a community healing circle last Thursday night at the ANB Hall. The event was organized by Natocha Lyons in order to help members of the community discuss any issues they are having. Finding new ways to be active in the community and reaching out to people in need is part of her job with SEARHC, and seven people showed up. "Even if one showed up, like my boss said, that's still positive," she says. "Everybody that was there needed it, and everybody benefited from it. I think it was a...
The Petersburg Borough Assembly will not allow a conditional use permit for adding a residential space for a waterfront warehouse, in addition to a caretaker dwelling. The appeal by Bill Menish came after the planning and zoning commission denied his application for the permit last month. In this process, the assembly acts as the Board of Adjustment and they met last Friday, after canvassing the election results. Menish wanted to use the dwelling for a possible bed and breakfast or rental space at 710 South Nordic Drive. He applied for the...
Michael Sheldon was born and raised in Petersburg and he has strong beliefs when it comes the citizens of Alaska and the Permanent Fund dividend. He's registered as a write-in candidate to challenge incumbent Bert Stedman for Senate District R in the upcoming election. "I've been here all my life," Sheldon says. "And I'm still a human being and not a politician." Sheldon's worked as a handyman for the last 10 years, and he worked in the fishing and logging industry when he was younger. He's a...
The school board held a discussion about options for sixth grader’s traveling to activities at its meeting Tuesday night. Principal Rick Dormer and activities director Jaime Cabral, answered questions from the board for possible changes moving forward. “Option one on that sheet is, due to reduced numbers in the middle school we should allow all sixth grade students to travel with the seventh and eighth graders, with parent permission,” Carbal said. “We always give a permission slip with every trip in the middle school just to make sure we have...
After nearly a year of planning, the volunteer committee headed by David Byrne has established a plan to distribute moose burger meat (from illegally shot moose) to non-profit agencies and food service providers in Petersburg. Under the proposed distribution protocol, Trooper Cody Litster will take the moose to Trading Union or Hammer and Wikan for butchering. The meat will be ground into burger, packaged and delivered to the Community Cold Storage for freezing, pending approval by the Borough. Distribution of the meat to various organizations...
On Oct. 10, Alaska Wildlife Troopers investigated a black bear that had been shot and left. The incident took place on Mitkof Island near Petersburg. Evidence was recovered from the scene, and the investigation is ongoing. Alaska Wildlife Troopers are requesting anyone with information regarding the incident contact the Troopers in Petersburg, or call the Alaska Fish and Wildlife Safeguard at 1-800-478-3377. Callers can remain anonymous, but it will disqualify them from receiving a reward....
The end of the RM038 moose season is in sight, and as of noon Tuesday the total stood at 97 moose taken, including 11 illegal kills. The season total is on track to exceed 100 moose for the third year in a row, according to Rich Lowell, area wildlife biologist for Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G). The number of moose illegal kills was low during the first half of the season, but they recently increased and now represent 11 percent of the total harvest. Nine of the 97 moose harvested...
Harbormaster Glo Wollen recently returned from this year’s harbormaster conference held in Dutch Harbor. It was the first year holding the Alaska Association of Harbormasters and Port Administrators (AAHPA) in Dutch Harbor. Wollen announced that next year Petersburg will play host to the conference of around 100 harbormasters, engineers and people in the industry. The conference rotates constantly, with one year in Southeast then one year up north, so people attending get the opportunity to experience a variety of harbors. Wollen’s been to Sea...
PORTLAND – The United States is trying to broker an agreement between a host of nations to prohibit unregulated fishing in the international waters of the Arctic Ocean. Such an agreement would expand on a non-binding agreement that the U.S. entered into with Norway, Denmark, Russia and Canada last year to avoid fishing in the area. The latest proposal would be binding and would include more countries. Adm. Robert Papp, the U.S. special representative for the Arctic, says a binding, multinational agreement would prevent fishing in the Arctic h...
The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities proposed Alaska Marine Highway System (AMHS) schedule pattern for summer 2017 is now available online for public review. The documents can be accessed through a link on the AMHS homepage at FerryAlaska.com or directly through the following web address: dot.alaska.gov/amhs/share/schedule/considerations.pdf This is an opportunity for communities to review and comment on the proposed schedule in consideration of community events. Written comments will be accepted prior to Oct. 24 via...
JUNEAU – Researchers are recommending other states look to Alaska’s Permanent Fund to learn how to grow funds supported by natural resource extraction. The Pew Charitable Trust recently released a national study focusing on seven states that have funds from extraction revenue, which the report describes as “sovereign wealth funds”' KTOO-FM reports. The report said Alaska is one of only two state funds with a purpose well-defined by state law. It also identified Alaska as one of only three states that don't allow withdrawals from the fund pr...
When it comes to restoring an early-1900s house to its original condition finding fixtures can be tricky, not to mention time consuming. Greg Katason's love for the Buschmann house at 407 South Nordic Drive is obvious in the way he speaks about it and the countless hours he's spent planning its restoration. "I wanted to keep it as original as possible," he says. "Roger Heimdahl sent me pictures of the house when he was growing up." The Heimdahls owned the house in the early 1900s, years after...
Petersburg voters spoke loudly in favor of supporting marijuana in the Petersburg Borough. Moving forward, the product will be taxed and potentially bring much needed funds to the borough during tough fiscal times in the Last Frontier State. The unofficial results showed a landslide victory with 701 no votes to 414, on the only ballot initiative for this year's municipal election. The polls were busy Tuesday, with 1120 people taking the time to cast their ballot at the Community Center, in...
Over 75 community members gathered in the Wright Auditorium last Wednesday to watch and discuss a documentary about opiate addition called “Chasing the Dragon.” The film lasted 45 minutes, was co-produced by the FBI and DEA, and it’s available on YouTube. The night was filled with a variety of audience questions about how prevalent the issue is in Petersburg, physical and mental health impacts and warning signs. One young man in the film said opiates made him do things he was raised not to do. “It made me a monster,” he said. A middle-ag...
The moose season is past the halfway point, with harvest totals appearing nearly on par with last year’s. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game reported 50 moose had been harvested by Sept. 30. The season began Sept. 15, and is set to wrap up next weekend on Oct. 15. At the halfway point last year hunters in the Wrangell, Petersburg and Kake areas had put away 54 moose, which at the time led ADFG to anticipate an average season. An unexpectedly solid last couple of weeks ended up bringing the season total to the third-highest on record, howeve...
ANCHORAGE – A Texas petroleum drilling company announced Tuesday it has made a large-scale oil discovery off Alaska’s North Slope. Dallas-based Caelus Energy Alaska LLC announced a find of 6 billion barrels of light oil on its state leases in the Arctic Ocean waters of Smith Bay about 450 miles northwest of Fairbanks. Chief Operating Officer Jim Musselman called the discovery exciting for the state, which receives a majority of its revenue from the oil industry. “It has the size and scale to play a meaningful role in sustaining the Alaskan oil...
The Petersburg Borough Assembly listened to an appeal for a conditional use permit on a newly constructed waterfront building near South Harbor and Cold Storage, but ultimately decided to wait on making decision. Bill Menish is the property owner and he wants the permit for a two-family residential building on industrial land. Menish attended the meeting telephonically. In order to win the appeal, Menish had to point out evidence supporting the planning and zoning commission made a mistake, an...
Repairs to the Alaska Marine Highway System’s M/V Columbia are going to take longer than anticipated and it won’t return to service this year, according to Jeremy Woodrow, Alaska Department of Transportation spokesman. The ferry headed for dry dock in Oregon at the end of September to be looked over after divers in Wrangell reported a bent starboard propeller. After arriving in Oregon, the damage turned into much more, and the vessel will take around six weeks to repair, Woodrow says. “Up...
WRANGELL – A judge ruled last week that the city will not have to enter arbitration with its public workers union during an ongoing labor grievance, pending further decision. After hearing oral arguments on Sept. 21, Superior Court Judge Trevor Stephens approved the City and Borough of Wrangell’s request for a stay of interest arbitration between it and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1547 on Sept. 28. The union had filed a motion to compel arbitration the preceding week, as part of an ongoing dispute over a new col...
ANCHORAGE – Authorities say rescuers did not find any survivors after a small plane carrying three people crashed in a remote area of western Alaska. Alaska State Troopers say its helicopter crew located wreckage of the plane near the coastal village of Togiak, about 200 miles northwest of Anchorage. The troopers said in a statement that no survivors were found at the crash site, which was in rough terrain about 12 miles northwest of Togiak. National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Clint Johnson tells KTVA that two pilots and a p...
ANCHORAGE – Yes, you could call it free money. But that doesn’t mean all Alaskans are happy about the $1,022 dividend checks nearly every resident will receive starting Thursday from the state’s oil wealth fund. Folks were looking at getting more than twice that amount. “It’s really putting the hurt on my community,’’ said Joel James, mayor of the tiny Yup’ik Eskimo village of Gambell, which, like many remote communities around the vast state, is plagued by chronic unemployment and astronomical living expenses. “I’m definitely disappointed.’’ E...
