Joe Viechnicki, KFSK, Author at KFSK

Author: Joe Viechnicki, KFSK

Petersburg shooting team wins honors at Southeast competition

Petersburg’s youth shooting sports team, the Devil’s Thumb Shooters, was well represented and well decorated at the seventh annual Southeast tournament in Juneau last Saturday and Sunday. Ten local kids made the trip and competed against some of their peers from across Alaska.

Petersburg High wrestling opens season at home against Juneau, Ketchikan, Haines

Jonas Anderson works the arm of a Juneau opponent Saturday, October 23, 2021. (Joe...

Insurance to pay some of replacement power cable cost

A hydroelectric power provider in Southeast Alaska expects to get back some of the cost of replacing a failed transmission line between Wrangell and Petersburg.

Board of Fish plans for in-person meetings in Cordova, Ketchikan

The board that makes changes to Alaska’s commercial, sport, subsistence and personal use fisheries is preparing for in-person meetings later this year in Cordova and early next year in Ketchikan. Those meetings were postponed from earlier this year because of the pandemic.

Petersburg assembly OKs first use of Rescue Plan Act money for manor deck project

Petersburg’s first use of one kind of emergency COVID funding will be a portion of the cost of a covered deck at the borough’s elderly housing and assisted living facility. The borough assembly Tuesday voted to pay remaining costs of the project but only after voicing concerns about spending public money on something that started as a privately funded addition.