Next year’s harvest of pink salmon in Southeast could be more than double this year’s according to a forecast out this month from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. The state agency is forecasting a commercial catch of 43 million pinks in 2017. That compares to this year’s harvest of over 18 million humpies.
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The borough is still under budget and the police department is expected to start moving into the new space in January.
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Petersburg School District is creating a meal charging policy to meet a new federal rule, which requires all districts to have one in place.
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Residents in the Southeast Alaska community of Petersburg have made the first recorded sightings in Alaska of a kind of woodpecker that’s more commonly found in the western United States and British Columbia. The Lewis’s Woodpecker was sighted in an apple tree near downtown Petersburg last week.
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The Petersburg borough approved the sale of 919 Sandy Beach Road and agreed on an easement change. They also they supported rezoning the property from public use to private residential.
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