Oregon resident and mycologist Ron Hamill led several mushroom field trips and presentations during Petersburg’s Rainforest Festival over the weekend. Hamill has been a professional mushroom expert for over 20 years and during his visit here searched the forests around Sandy Beach Park and Three Lakes on eastern Mitkof Island.
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Hunters are heading to moose camp on the mainland and islands around Petersburg, Wrangell and Kake. A month-long season in central Southeast Alaska starts up Friday, September 15.
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Petersburg High School girls cross country came in third behind the two Juneau high schools this weekend at a meet in Wrangell. The Petersburg boys team was fifth.
In the girls race, Juneau-Douglas took the top spot with three of the top four runners across the finish line. Thunder Mountain beat out Petersburg for second place by just two points.
Searchers late Monday night recovered the body of a 24-year-old Petersburg man missing since earlier that day at a hunting and fishing lodge about 10 miles south of town.
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Alaska’s Lieutenant Governor Byron Mallot has denied a proposed ballot initiative designed to offer greater protections for salmon habitat from mining or other development.
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