Author: Joe Viechnicki, KFSK

A cooler than normal month of March meant more snow for the Petersburg area, adding some high snowpack amounts on the mountains of central Southeast Alaska this winter.

A new daily airline connection between Juneau and Petersburg started up Monday. Alaska Seaplanes is flying its nine-passenger planes twice a day into James A. Johnson Airport and held a ribbon cutting ceremony there to mark the start of that service.

Petersburg’s borough assembly Monday was not interested in chipping in money to defend a Tongass National Forest exemption from the Clinton-era Roadless Rule. It didn’t even come up for debate or a vote for that matter.

2021 is a big year for a Petersburg family business that operates grocery, hardware and convenience stores. Hammer and Wikan is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year with some events planned this month and next.