Author: Joe Viechnicki, KFSK

A Petersburg jury this month returned one guilty verdict and one not guilty verdict for two local residents. The two were charged with sending methamphetamine in the mail with the intent of selling it in the community. Now the attorney for the woman found guilty in the case is asking for a new trial.

State and federal law enforcement officers killed a brown bear Sunday May 26 on the mainland southeast of Wrangell. They believe it was the same bear that was threatening some campers in the area.

U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan took part in Petersburg’s Little Norway Festival this month, riding in the parade, running in the Lop the Loop and visiting with local residents and officials.

The Clausen Museum in Petersburg installed a major new piece of public art outside the borough assembly chambers in the municipal building this month, during Petersburg’s Little Norway Festival. The massive painted and carved red cedar bench is the work of four well-known artists from Ketchikan and was part of the Decolonizing Alaska exhibit that toured the country in the past few years.