Alaska’s Lieutenant Governor Byron Mallott was the keynote speaker at this week’s annual meeting of Southeast Conference in Petersburg.
During his speech Wednesday morning, Mallott addressed climate change and fisheries, this year’s failed pink salmon runs, mining concerns on the transboundary rivers in Southeast Alaska, the Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission and the Alaska Marine Highway System.
Petersburg High Schools swimmers recorded some top-three finishes at an invitational meet in Juneau last weekend.The Vikings competed against teams from Juneau-Douglas, Thunder Mountain, Sitka and Ketchikan. The boys and girls teams were both fourth on Friday night and fifth on Saturday. The host Crimson Bears won for both boys and girls both nights.
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The Alaska Recreation and Park Association honored a Petersburg resident, a local park project and a local organization at the end of the group’s annual conference in Petersburg last Friday.
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Southeast has more people, jobs, and money than five years ago but the state budget crisis will stop that growth, according to the annual report, “Southeast Alaska by the Numbers 2016.”
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It hasn’t made its way to Petersburg’s movie theater yet, but an animated film out earlier this month still has close ties to town. KFSK’s Abbey Collins spoke with a former Petersburg resident who worked with the artists behind the faces of a new stop motion film.
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