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Thank you for your letter dated February 6, 2012, regarding the District Attorney's office that provides criminal prosecutions for the residents of Petersburg. I am happy to attend your town meeting and discuss the issues that you identify in your letter. Your letter identifies these issues as – "extremely disturbing statistics related to the dismissal of a high number of charges, extraordinary plea bargains and in all honesty, a seemingly lack of concern on the part of the District Attorney's office." I do want you to know that because of t...
Picked, clicked thanked To The Editor: A couple of weeks ago the Pilot carried a nice article about Alaskans’ sharing their PFDs at unprecedented rates through the PickClickGive option on their applications. As possibly the smallest non-profit organization in Petersburg, WAVE wasn’t really expecting much of a response when we sent in our paperwork to participate in this program. What an amazing surprise when we received a check in the mail at the end of December. Twenty-five individuals, half of whom chose to remain anonymous, donated a total o...
Our community is quite blessed. The weekly police reports are short and smattered with inconsequential notations of our winter existence in a small town. While big city felons wreak havoc elsewhere, our police respond to reports of birds impeding traffic while being fed on city streets. (We wonder why good old-fashioned stationary bird feeders won’t do the trick.) Gathering teens are reported acting suspiciously, and responders discover all is well. The police report is also our lost and found column. Everything from cash to jewelry to cell p...
Hello and welcome to week three of Peggy’s Corner of the House. This has been a busy week, with four of my bills being heard. Bills don’t always pass out of committee on the first hearing. Sometimes there are questions or details that need to be worked out. This week, three of my bills were held over in committee until next week. House Concurrent Resolution 20, which will designate February as American Heart Month in Alaska, did successfully pass the House of Representatives on Friday – unani... Full story
Hello and welcome to week two of Peggy’s Corner of the House. The pace is really picking up as legislators jockey to get their bills into committees early so that they can get them passed before the end of the session. Any bills that don’t pass this year will have to start over from scratch during the next two-year legislative cycle. One of the bills at the top of my stack this year is House Bill 216 that deals with how we adopt, amend and repeal regulations. The first part of the bill req...
Moved in To the Editor: Now that the Volunteer Fire Department has moved into Station One, we'd like to thank the State of Alaska for the funding for our new building. Countless hours were put into the design plans for the building and overseeing the construction of an energy efficient structure. If we step back a few years, our city manager recognized that the Department was still struggling with the cramped facility on Nordic and approached our Legislators who were successful in adding funding for our new building to the Capitol Budget. Our n...
Hello and welcome to Peggy’s Corner of the House. I’m excited to be back in Juneau representing District 2 in the State House. I’m sad, though, that this will be my last year representing Sitka, Petersburg, Pelican, Elfin Cove, Port Alexander, Kupreanof and Baranof Warm Springs because of redistricting. This is the second year of the 27th legislative session, and we’ll be working hard to gain approval of all the good legislation that was introduced last year. This is my second year serving...
It all started with a pat on the back from the Chief of Police who praised the work of one of his employees at the end of the city council meeting. Nothing to worry about I thought. But Chief Agner stammered a bit and then broke into unabashed praise for his wife, Sgt. Heidi Agner. The Chief started, “Normally I don’t do this. It is going to be a little odd because it’s somewhat nepotism related. But I really would like to recognize Sgt. Heidi Agner. Sgt. Agner …who through a great deal of diligence, who for well over a year, has been working...
Putting it in writing To the Editor: To: Steve Giesbrecht, City Manager The City is not telling the whole story. I wanted to clear up a few things in regards to the false statements and allegations of me being unresponsive or unwilling to comply that were made by the city in last week's newspaper. After receiving the letter of alleged violations in August, 2011, I personally escorted Mr. Leo Luczak throughout the Leconte Trailer Park to show him that all of the water and sewer is and has been functional for every space in the trailer park. On...
Deeply grateful To the Editor: On December 14 someone did an act of kindness that I will never forget. Someone bought me a round trip ticket to my home state to allow me to be there for my grandpa’s funeral, an event in which I had no intention of attending even though I had almost enough miles to pull it off. I am still somewhat in shock This is something I did not ask for but it’s something that happened. Whomever is responsible for this please know that I am very thankful for this. I was finally able to have closure on that part of my lif...
To the Editor: On Tuesday, December 20, it seems like half the community of Petersburg came out to help me and Santa celebrate our birthdays. I just turned 67. I can’t speak for Santa, whose poor dear wife had to stay home with the flu, but I appreciated the party – it was just a delight. Connie Morgan...
