Petersburg High School swimmers shaved time off in multiple events at a meet in Juneau last Friday and Saturday. The girls team took fourth place both days and the boys team placed fourth on Friday and fifth on Saturday.
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Petersburg residents have voted to keep a sales tax exemption for borough residents 65 and older and it wasn’t close. Tuesday’s vote was almost 3-1 against a proposal to end the tax break for seniors that dates back to 1980.
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Petersburg’s borough assembly Monday decided to hold off on a larger discussion of an expanded visitor industry presence in the community but still ended up talking about the possibility. Assembly members hope to see a future forum on whether Petersburg wants, or could handle, some bigger, small cruise ships.
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Alaska Airlines jet service into Petersburg and Wrangell will be shut down the day after Thanksgiving this year.
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Commercial dive fisheries and a fall Dungeness crab season get underway in Southeast Alaska in October. The season for geoduck clam diving starts October 1st. The first opening could be October 3rd or 4th depending on testing for the toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning.
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