Author: Joe Viechnicki, KFSK

Petersburg’s borough assembly Tuesday gave the green light to the Petersburg Medical Center to apply for a second pandemic payroll loan.

Construction has started on a multi-million dollar affordable housing project next to the Petersburg Medical Center.

A federal agency has put some dollar amounts to the impact from the COVID-19 pandemic on commercial and charter fishing industries nationwide in the first part of last year.

Petersburg’s representative in the Alaska House says he’s prioritizing a spending cap on the earnings of the Alaska Permanent Fund in the upcoming legislative session. Sitka Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins says the theme of this year’s gathering of law makers in Juneau is “massive uncertainty” with no organization in place yet and no change in the state’s fiscal problems.

Petersburg Medical Center is giving the COVID-19 vaccine to people 65 and older this week by appointment starting Thursday, January 14.