Author: Joe Viechnicki, KFSK

For the upcoming year, Petersburg will have two voting members and two alternates on the board of directors for the hydroelectric agency that sells power to this community along with Wrangell and Ketchikan. That comes during a year when that board could be deciding on repairing Petersburg’s connection to its main power source. The borough assembly Monday named four in the community to that board.

Petersburg’s borough assembly Monday voted down two different resolutions on the roadless rule and the Tongass National Forest.

There’s a new opportunity next February in three Alaskan communities for people interested in getting into the industry of farming seaweed.

Petersburg School District music teacher Matt Lenhard was honored over the weekend as Music Educator of the Year by the state branch of a national professional organization.