Peterburg’s harbor board signed off on a draft waterfront master plan last week with only a few changes. The plan looks at capital project needs and the cost of owning and replacing the docks and floats on Mitkof Island and elsewhere in the new Petersburg borough.
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The U.S. Forest Service has hired a new district ranger for Petersburg. The new ranger has worked with the agency for over two decades in timber and forest products and has worked on the Tongass in both Sitka and Juneau.
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Petersburg has started the roll-out of new blue recycling carts. Public works director Karl Hagerman says public works staff started the distribution of the 1,100 blue carts Monday.
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Petersburg’s harbor board is not excited about one part of the borough’s plan to fund a 10 million dollar remodel of the police station and municipal building. Some of the cost of the project could be repaid with raw fish tax revenue that the borough gets from the state and passes on to the harbor department.
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This year’s winner of the Rain Game Classic in Petersburg was right on the mark with her guess. Tiffany Foss of Juneau was the winner for guessing 135.99 inches of precipitation in 2015. That’s the exact amount recorded in Petersburg last year and that guess wins Foss 575 dollars.
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