Petersburg High School’s varsity boys’ basketball coach, Rick Brock, is the Division 2A Coach of the Year. The Alaska Association of Basketball Coaches, or AABC. in late March named him for the honor at the state high school basketball tournament in Anchorage. Last week, Brock returned to Anchorage to collect that award.
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Many Alaskans have to travel a long way for certain healthcare treatments — but a bill in the state House aims to close that distance by expanding the list of providers Alaskans can see without needing to leave home.
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Trident Seafoods has officially finalized the sale of its facilities in Petersburg to E.C. Phillips & Son Inc.
Both companies announced on March 15 that they had entered into negotiations for Trident’s processing plant, bunkhouse, galley, and two housing units in Petersburg. But they didn’t cinch the deal until April 3.
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Petersburg’s Borough Assembly has a long agenda ahead of its meeting at 6:00 p.m. tonight. At the start of the meeting, the Assembly, acting as the Board of Equalization, will hear any unsettled appeals of the 2024 property tax assessment.
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Dozens of Petersburg High School students marched out of class and into the streets on the morning of April 4th with signs in their hands and a message on their lips in support of state education funding.
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Petersburg’s Borough Assembly has a long agenda ahead of its noon meeting today. They’re scheduled to take public testimony on an application to buy a plot of vacant tidelands owned by the Borough. But that sale can only move forward if certain conditions are met.
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Petersburg medical officials flew up two Wilderness First Aid instructors to teach locals how to help an injured person in the field. The trainees spent the first half of the day in the classroom, learning how to treat everything from burns to hypothermia. But they spent the last half testing their knowledge in a simulated outdoor emergency.
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“You’re excluding miles of prime hunting real estate from subsistence users,” said local subsistence hunter Ralph Strickland. “And I don’t know if you check the price at the grocery store — meat costs a lot. I think it’s a lot of land lost to subsistence use that isn’t anywhere near anybody’s homes.”
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