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Summer ferry schedule unchanged from recent years; one ship a …
Nov 7, 2024 · The proposed summer 2025 Alaska Marine Highway System schedule shows the same level of service to Petersburg as in the past several years: one ship serving the mainline route, with one stop northbound and one southbound each week. The Columbia will stop in Petersburg northbound on Sundays, on its run from …
Petersburg Borough to move forward with sale to Skylark Park LLC
Dec 12, 2024 · The Petersburg Borough will enter negotiations with a local developer who wants to buy seven borough-owned lots between Severson Subdivision and Skylark Way. Skylark Park LLC wants to develop the land into a major subdivision with roads and utilities that could provide cheaper housing options in Petersburg. In 2023, a survey found that the town nee...
Original Peter Pan Seafood investor wins auction for troubled …
Sep 26, 2024 · One of the original investors in a troubled Alaska seafood company has narrowly outbid competitor Silver Bay Seafoods in an auction for the firm’s assets — including a major processing plant in the Alaska Peninsula village of King Cove. Rodger May, an entrepreneur and fish trader, bid $37.3 million for the assets of Peter Pan Seafood, including...
Peltola leads in Alaska U.S. House primary, with Begich ahead of ...
Aug 22, 2024 · Democratic U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola received more than half of the votes in primary results released Tuesday night, well ahead of Republican challengers, businessman Nick Begich III and Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom. With 387 of 403 precincts reporting through 1 a.m. on Wednesday, the incumbent Peltola had received 50.4% of the votes counted. She was runn...
PHS wrestlers show growth and improvement in final meet before …
Dec 12, 2024 · The PHS wrestling team had a solid showing in front of the home crowd in a meet that consisted of 10 other schools. This was the final meet before regionals and the first time this season that every wrestler won at least one of their matches. Jake Newlin, a freshman wrestler, claimed the first win of his high school career under the spotlight. "Eve...
Local news 2024 year in review - Petersburg Pilot
January 2024 A prized Mental Health Trust lot by Blind River Rapids, a popular recreation site for sport fishing, was sold at auction to a USCG family. Toler and Jessie Alexander are eager to return to Petersburg after retiring from the Coast Guard in a few years. The borough listed its top priority capital projects, and the Petersburg Medical Cent...
U.S. Capitol Christmas tree gets a big Wrangell send-off
Oct 31, 2024 · It seemed everyone in Wrangell piled into to the Nolan Center to witness the blessing of the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree. Led by the Wrangell Cooperative Association, the event was moved indoors after a persistent storm turned a cloudy afternoon into a rainy one. The event was attended by folks from Wrangell, from throughout Alaska and from Washing...
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January 16, 2025 edition of Petersburg Pilot, a weekly newspaper. Petersburg awarded $8.8 million for Scow Bay Haul-out Orin Pierson. Word arrived last week that Petersburg has finally secured funding for the Scow Bay Haul-out and Washdown Pad project. $8.8 million is coming through the Department of Transportation's Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE ...
Community leaders round up support for continued federal air …
Dec 12, 2024 · Alaska Airlines has received a federal subsidy since 1976 to provide Wrangell and Petersburg with twice-daily jet service, and community leaders in each community are rounding up support to urge the government to issue a new contract after the current agreement expires in 2025. “I want to ensure it stays around,” Wrangell Mayor Patty Gilbert sa...