Petersburg’s borough assembly will try again this afternoon for a meeting on a local public health order that seeks to provide emergency sheltering options for homeless individuals and families along with first responders and health care workers.
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The state is continuing with plans to start up construction of a remote road project on Kupreanof Island in central Southeast Alaska near the community of Kake this summer.
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Petersburg’s school board Tuesday heard plans for the final months of the school year, with classes continuing online in grades K through 12 and ending as scheduled. School administrators also updated the board on the district’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and a new way of operating.
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An online presentation for Petersburg’s Science Series Thursday, April 16 will focus on some of the shrimp and crab species of Southeast Alaska in changing ocean conditions. Sherry Tamone is a professor of biology at the University of Alaska Southeast. For the past six years she’s been studying the growth and life history of spot shrimp in Alaska.
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The state has settled a wrongful death lawsuit over a van wreck near downtown Petersburg on the Fourth of July, nearly four years ago. However, the plaintiffs are appealing a superior court judgment that dropped the Petersburg borough and the van driver from the case.
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