Petersburg’s planning commission has recommended the borough sell two parcels of land on Sandy Beach Road. The borough assembly will decide whether to go forward with the sale and how to do it.
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Residents marched down main street in a heavy downpour Wednesday past Petersburg’s mural of Alaska civil rights leader Elizabeth Wannamaker Peratrovich. Across Alaska people mark February 16 as the anniversary of the signing of an anti-discrimination bill passed by Alaska’s territorial legislature in 1945.
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Petersburg High School’s basketball teams are battling for seeding at the regional tournament with important conference games all this month. Last weekend the Chiefs and Misschiefs of Metlakatla took three out of the four varsity games at Petersburg’s first home games of the season.
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The Petersburg borough is reporting a large COVID-19 outbreak among residents and staff at its assisted living facility.
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The estate of Molly Parks appeared before the Alaska Supreme Court earlier this month, seeking to overturn a lower court ruling in a civil suit against the Petersburg Borough. Parks was one of two employees killed in the wreck of a borough van in 2016. Although the driver of the van served jail time, the civil claims against the borough were dismissed in Superior Court.
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