The high school baseball season opens for the Petersburg at home this weekend with three games scheduled against the Kayhi Kings of Ketchikan. It’s a young Vikings team in 2018. The group has been practicing about a month and a half, with about three weeks of that out of the gym and up at the ballfields once volunteers helped clear the fields of snow. Joe Viechnicki spoke with head coach Jim Engell about this year’s team.

Petersburg is sending a letter to top officials in the state’s Department of Natural Resources asking for updated information for the borough’s land entitlement. That land grant for the municipality was increased last year in legislation passed by the legislature and signed by the governor. The borough has until October 1st of this year to submit all its requests for land from the state.