Author: Joe Viechnicki, KFSK

School officials in Petersburg hope to have some combination of online and in-classroom learning with the start of the new school year. The school district is preparing surveys for local parents about preferences for school safety and COVID-19 precautions. Officials are working under a new state framework for restrictions for classroom sessions and activities if there are additional cases in the community.

An estimated 150 to 200 people in Petersburg joined protests around the nation Sunday with a vigil honoring victims of police brutality.

Petersburg does not have airport COVID-19 testing available at the start of the state’s revised mandate for travel quarantine.

Firefighters battled a blaze in a trailer home about five miles south of downtown Petersburg Saturday morning.

Petersburg has a new magistrate judge and she’s a familiar face in the courthouse and the community.