One Petersburg High School student has just wrapped up her studies and is looking forward to starting her next school year on a different continent.
16-year-old Marissa Nilsen will be spending her junior year abroad in Belgium, with the Rotary Youth Exchange Program. During that time she’ll be living with host families and going to school and possibly seeing other parts of Europe with other exchange students.
Petersburg’s Wright Auditorium filled with the music of Antonio Vivaldi, Aaron Copland, Andrew...
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Petersburg’s borough assembly will seek more input on the possibility of taking over two or three remote docks from the state. However, assembly members this week re-iterated concerns about paying for the long-term operation and maintenance of those harbor facilities.
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Law enforcement agencies seized methamphetamine and arrested three men in Petersburg this week. The men appeared before a packed courthouse Monday. Abbey Collins reports....
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Petersburg’s borough assembly Monday voted not to send a list of questions on prohibiting or regulating pot businesses to local voters in October. The assembly also voted to keep advancing a local ordinance to regulate marijuana businesses in line with the local law for alcohol establishments. And for now, language allowing for on-site consumption at a retail pot store remains in that local ordinance.
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