Editions of this week’s Petersburg Pilot and Wrangell Sentinel appear in black and white due to a breakdown of the platemaker at the Pilot printing plant. To speed up the platemaking and printing process this week, we opted to print both publications without color.

Plates for this edition were produced at the Ketchikan Daily News at 5 a.m. Thursday morning and were scheduled to arrive in Petersburg by 8 a.m. on the ACE freight plane.

Orin Pierson worked with factory repairmen and electrician Darby Mattingly on Wednesday to locate and repair the malfunctioning circuit boards, but the parts...