Author: Joe Viechnicki, KFSK

A Kupreanof Island property owner hopes this summer to begin construction of a small hydroelectric power project across from Petersburg. The turbine would provide only enough electricity for his home, part of the year. The improvement, in itself, isn’t that unusual. But the home owner has been navigating his way through federal approvals that have taken years.

Petersburg’s COVID-19 case count is rising. The borough’s emergency operations center reported another positive test on Sunday.

Petersburg’s tribal government is one of four in the state awarded federal grant money this month from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Petersburg health officials have announced another reported COVID-19 case for a Petersburg resident, but this is someone who is traveling out of state and contracted it while outside Alaska.

A relatively new technique for dating rock is being used in Southeast Alaska and it’s rewriting the area’s geologic, and possibly anthropologic, history. While it’s understood that ice likely covered most, if not all, of the islands and mainland of the current day Alexander Archipelago, it now appears to have retreated from parts of the panhandle thousands of years earlier than scientists originally thought.