The school board will be meeting at the high school library which will be their meeting place for the foreseeable future since the municipal building will soon be under construction.
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As the regular Legislative session nears its scheduled end date, lawmakers are expecting to continue work on budget solutions past the 90-day mark approved by voters. Legislators still have to reconcile competing versions of the state budget and have yet to approve new taxes, changes to the Alaska Permanent Fund or other fiscal proposals. Petersburg’s representative in the state House, Sitka Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins says those decisions have to be made this year but he thinks that work is going to take awhile.
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A plane crashed on Admiralty Island on Friday morning southeast of Angoon after departing from Wrangell. Three people died and one was injured.
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Four people were traveling on a Sunrise Aviation Cessna 206 between Wrangell and Angoon.
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With a little more than a week left in the regular legislative session, Walker administration officials are trying to encourage legislative action on the governor’s plan for balancing the state’s checkbook. Alaska Governor Bill Walker has proposed a combination of new and increased taxes, use of the Alaska Permanent Fund and spending cuts to help narrow the gap on what now looks to be a four billion dollar budget deficit. With that kind of deficit, current projections have the state using up its main source of savings in just two years.
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