Petersburg Pilot -

If you've got to ride-out a worldwide pandemic, there's no better place than in Petersburg.

We're isolated on an island along the edge of the

Pacific Ocean, giving us a lot of protection from the spread of COVID-19. With appropriate precautions, followed by all of us, we can get through this.

Store managers tell us that shoppers have been respectful of social distancing while in the stores. More and more shoppers are phoning in orders and having them delivered to their homes, avoiding the threat of virus spread both to shoppers and store employees.

The Petersburg Chamber of Commerce met

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