Author: Joe Viechnicki, KFSK

Hunters are already out in the woods of Southeast Alaska with moose season underway. An expanded deer hunting season starts up around Petersburg October 1st. Meanwhile four different arrays of game cameras are capturing thousands of photographs of the animals that wander some remote spots on Mitkof Island. They’re part of a multi-year study underway to get a better idea of the number of deer on the island.

State highway maintenance workers cleared Mitkof Highway south of Petersburg. A slide of mud and trees blocked the road early Saturday morning as heavy rains brought down part of that hillside.

One of the casualties of budget cutting by the Petersburg borough in recent years has been painting lines on downtown streets. There may be some interest in paying for that again next year.

Curbside collection of co-mingled recyclable material is on hold in Petersburg starting next Monday, September 23rd.

Besides choosing the next mayor, Petersburg voters will be filling two seats on the borough assembly in October. Four people are running for two seats on the governing body that decides spending and makes local law for the municipality. The four candidates say they’d take a different approach to serving on the assembly and also differ in some of their top priorities.