Petersburg Pilot -

WRANGELL — The Thomas Bay Power Authority commission elected Wrangell borough assembly member and TBPA commissioner James Stough to the commission’s presidency Monday.

Stough also briefly served as chairman of the borough’s special energy committee.

The election marks the transfer of the presidency from John Jensen of Petersburg, who’d held the presidency since he joined the board in 2007. Stough was appointed to the board in December.

Stough has since September been publicly critical of the transfer of an operations and maintenance contract at Tyee Lake to the Southeast Alaska Powe...