Petersburg High School’s girls cross country team swept the top five spots for a perfect score at the Region Five meet in Ketchikan last weekend. The boys team took second place on the five kilometer course at Ketchikan’s Ward Lake Saturday.
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Around 80 people are expected in Petersburg next week for a week-long annual conference of port and harbor professionals at the Sons of Norway Hall. The Alaska Association of Harbormasters and Port Administrators conference starts up Monday, October 2nd.
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A coalition of local service agencies and concerned citizens Tuesday, September 19 heard about strategies for counting Petersburg’s homeless population. The group is hoping to get reliable data on who is living without a roof over their heads in order to seek funding for the problem.
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Hunters have reported 23 moose killed in the first week of the season in central Southeast Alaska. The month-long season on the mainland and islands around Petersburg, Kake and Wrangell started Friday, September 15th.
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The good news for commercial salmon trollers in Southeast Alaska is they will have a winter season for king salmon starting up next month; the bad news is that winter season may be shortened this year. Trollers have been concerned over the possibility of no winter season and what low king numbers mean for the future of the fishery.
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