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Voters nix income disclosure for Petersburg office holders

Voters Tuesday agreed to remove a financial disclosure requirement for Petersburg elected officials and the vote was not close. In unofficial results, 306 people said yes to the only question on Petersburg’s ballot this year, compared to 93 no votes. That’s a margin of more than three to one. That measure asked to exempt local candidates from filing income information with the Alaska Public Offices Commission. The same question was on the ballot and failed narrowly last year, when turnout was much higher at 39 percent.

Financial disclosure, harbor seats on Petersburg ballot

Voters head to the polls Tuesday, October 6 in Petersburg and will be deciding one ballot measure and one contested race for harbor board. As of 11:30 a.m., 95 people had voted at the polls in the community gym activity room. Another 92 borough residents had voted absentee by yesterday’s deadline. Add those together and the turnout for this election so far is 187 people. That’s just over seven percent of the 2,631 registered voters in the Petersburg borough. The polls are open until 8 p.m. at the community gym activity room, a different location past years.

PHS girls cross country fourth at state

The Petersburg High School girls cross country team finished in fourth place among smaller schools at the state meet at Bartlett High School in Anchorage. The girls team came in fourth behind teams from Homer, Grace Christian and Anchorage Christian, all 3A schools. Team titles are only awarded to the top 4A schools and the top schools among the 1A-2A and 3A conference combined.

$8 million summer Dungeness harvest for Southeast

Commercial crabbers are out fishing again this month for Dungeness crab in Southeast Alaska. The numbers are in for the summer crab fishery and it looks like it was a pretty average season.

Middle schoolers join in monitoring for invasives in Petersburg harbor

Sixth graders were in Petersburg’s Middle Harbor Thursday morning checking for an invasive species that has shown up on the waterfront not too far away in Sitka. So far students have not seen any sign yet of the marine animal nicknamed D Vex here.