Some Petersburg residents are asking for a public vote on a proposed 10-million-dollar renovation of the police station and municipal building to a public vote. The borough received an application for a referendum on going forward with the borough’s top capital project priority.
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Police arrested a Petersburg man at the airport Monday morning for allegedly bringing more heroin to town.
In a press release, the Southeast Alaska Cities Against Drugs (SEACAD) task force says it seized an estimated 220 doses of heroin, with help from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Petersburg police arrested 27-year-old Marvin Jackson and he’s facing two charges of misconduct involving a controlled substance in the second and fourth degree.
Petersburg’s borough assembly tonight will be taking the first of three votes on changes to this year’s borough budget. Those changes include some of the funding for the proposed renovation of the police station and municipal building.
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The population of the Petersburg borough dropped last year. That’s according to an annual estimate put out by the Alaska Department of Labor, which uses Permanent Fund applications to come up with the estimates. The state says the number of people in the Petersburg borough in 2015 was 3,199, down from 3,222 the year before.
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Should there be zoning throughout Petersburg’s new borough? What are some of the biggest needs for land in the downtown area? Those were a few of the topics debated by Petersburg’s planning and zoning commission this month as it poured through a draft comprehensive plan for the community. The document makes recommendations for land use and public facilities.
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