As of next week, the Petersburg Police Department will no longer be the place to take a driver’s test or get your state issued driver’s license or ID card. Those services will be moving up the hill to a private business that already issues titles and registrations for vehicles and boats. The change will mean expanded hours to apply for a license and lessen some of the workload for local police dispatchers.
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The Alaska Marine Highway System’s largest vessel was delayed in Ketchikan Monday this week awaiting repairs to the ferry’s exhaust system. The 418-foot Columbia remained at the shipyard in Ketchikan into Tuesday while passengers are being picked up by two other ferries.
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Mark Weaver will not be allowed to return to Petersburg within the next five years, and he says he has no intention of ever going back. The 60-year-old former Petersburg resident was sentenced to five years probation and ordered to pay a 10-thousand dollar fine during a Monday hearing in U-S District Court in Juneau. Weaver was also ordered to follow through with mental health counseling and treatment while he serves out his probation at his new home in Hawaii.
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Southeast’s Dungeness summer crab season ended on Saturday. There aren’t any preliminary numbers yet but it’s looking as if this year hasn’t got close to the bumper season crab fishermen had last summer.
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Petersburg’s Nicole Hallingstad remembers stories of segregation from her grandmother.
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