Baiz Hoen, Author at KFSK

‘Today is a relief’: Local tribe reinters three ancestors at Petersburg cemetery

One of the ancestors is the remains of a 6-month-old Tlingit girl, called “Baby Girl,” that the tribe recently repatriated from a museum in Seattle. Dozens of people gathered in the pouring rain for a graveside service, bearing witness to the reinterment on Sept. 26.

‘Gremlins in the system:’ generator issues cause two Petersburg power outages

During a planned hydropower outage early Thursday morning (Oct. 1), a main generator had a sensor failure that shut down the fleet. Later, another generator had to be manually shut down, causing a second crash.

55 bull moose harvested halfway through the fall hunt in central Southeast Alaska

As of Wednesday (Sept. 30), the highest harvests come from Kupreanof Island with 20 bulls, the Stikine River with 13 bulls, and Kuiu Island with 10 bulls.

Neets Bay Hatchery opens first chum fishery in nearly a decade

When Petersburg fisherman Bob Martin arrived at Neets Bay for the chum salmon opener, he didn’t have a good feeling. Over 30 boats crowded the bay. Plus, the fish on the shoreline didn’t look that great. But within minutes of putting out his net, he got hits.

Petersburg Mini Bear Fair teaches residents how to live with bears

Residents learned the key differences between black and brown bears, how to correctly set up a safe bear camp, and how to spray bear spray the right way.