Petersburg school officials say a funding cut passed by the state Senate would cost the district hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Senate passed a budget this month with a five percent cut to education money that goes to school districts.
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Petersburg’s school board Tuesday voted to allow two out-of-state trips for Petersburg High School students next year. Students in music and Spanish language classes will have a chance to travel but will have to fund raise for those tours.
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Twenty-two million tiny chum salmon are growing in net pens in Thomas Bay near Petersburg this spring. The site is a new release location for hatchery chums produced by the Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association’s Hidden Falls hatchery on Baranof Island. And a young couple from Petersburg is spending the next few months living at the remote site and feeding the hungry fish.
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Alaska Congressman Don Young Monday defended his bill that could give up to two million acres of the Tongass National Forest to the state of Alaska. Young was in Petersburg, a community that just passed a resolution opposing his legislation. Young told an audience in Petersburg that the municipality would not lose federal funding because of his bill and said he wouldn’t run for re-election if it did.
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The Petersburg Ragnarök Rollers beat the Garnet Grit Betties of Wrangell Saturday night 124-108 in the first of two home bouts the team has this spring. The Wrangell team had several skaters from Juneau and Sitka rounding out their numbers.
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