Some of the top news stories in this community in 2018 were debates over sales tax for the municipality and whether the community wanted more visits from cruise ship passengers.
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Students at Petersburg High School wrapped up 2018 with their second annual day of service, doing volunteer work in the school and community.
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In early November Petersburg’s borough assembly voted to send a letter to the chief of the U.S. Forest Service asking for information on Tongass National Forest timber sales. The letter cites a 2016 review by staff in the Forest Service’s Washington office that detailed problems with oversight and administration of timber sales. The internal review was published by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, a nationwide watchdog group based in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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A local woman who just finished up a two-year stint with the Peace Corps in Madagascar is opening up a show of drawings and photographs at a Petersburg gallery this month. 25-year-old Hillary Hunter taught English language to middle-school-aged kids and adults during her time in that island nation off the coast of Africa. It’s Hunter’s first solo art show and it’s called “Vita Gasy,” or made in Madagascar. It features about 40 pen, colored pencil and paint drawings, along with photographs of landscapes and people.
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New baler equipment is on the Christmas wish list for the Petersburg borough’s sanitation department. Public works director Chris Cotta Monday updated the borough assembly on the latest failure of machines used to compact and ready Petersburg’s garbage for shipping to a landfill in Washington state. The assembly took the first step toward replacing those machines but had some questions for Cotta.
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