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PHS track opens season in Anchorage

Petersburg High School’s track teams opened up the season last weekend with their first ever visit to the Big C Relays in Anchorage last weekend.
The event is put on by the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and brings more than one thousand track and field competitors from around Alaska and out of state for two days of competition at an indoor facility. 10 students from PHS made the trip, and set personal records or their own best times in various events, including Izabelle Ith who took second in the pentathlon. Coach Brad Taylor says more than 32 kids who have come out for the team this year. Joe Viechnicki spoke with Taylor about the first meet of the season.

Bill would allow cities to help fund ferry system

A Southeast lawmaker wants communities to be able to contribute directly to the Alaska Marine Highway System.

State testing continues, despite decision to suspend

The state of Alaska has suspended a state-mandated test because of ongoing problems with the computer based assessment, however some districts are continuing on with testing this week. Students across Alaska started taking the online Alaska Measures of Progress assessment Tuesday. Testing that day was ended when a construction crew severed a fiber optic cable at the University of Kansas, where the vendor Achievement and Assessment Institute is based.

Southeast’s Tanner harvest high, golden king slow

Preliminary harvest numbers are in for the Tanner crab fishery which turned out to be another good year. The fishery opened February 17 as did the golden king crab season. Golden king is still ongoing but it’s looking pretty poor.

Petersburg building activity down a little in 2015

Overall building activity in the Petersburg borough was down slightly last year, despite an increase in the number of new homes under construction.
Those were some of the findings of a recently-released building report compiled by the borough annually.