New fourth grade teacher brings Alaska experience

Life in small town Alaska will probably be a pretty smooth transition for Stedman Elementary's new fourth grade teacher Trevor Wilson, who grew up in Unalaska – an island community on the Aleutian chain similar in size to Petersburg -- where his father worked as a school principal.

As a younger man Wilson had not wanted to follow too closely in his father's footsteps and didn't want to be a teacher. But when he went off to college at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana, he had a change of heart and saw a clear path for himself in teaching.

After completing his undergraduate degree, Mon...