Petersburg’s borough assembly Monday will vote on sending a letter on state ferry service and get an early glimpse at the October borough ballot. A letter drafted to the Alaska Marine Highway System says the state’s proposed fall, winter and spring schedule will impact student and visitor travel because of the length of time between trips to some communities in Southeast.
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A popular hiking trail on the mainland near Petersburg is getting some major renovation work this summer.
The Cascade Creek trail, in Thomas Bay on the mainland about 16 miles northeast of Petersburg, will see reconstruction of about one half mile of the trail’s four mile length.
Today we meet Deontea Vickers Idrisov. She’s a 48-year-old paralegal chef from Santa Monica, California. She sat down and talked to KFSK’s Joe Sykes about her husband, her love of Alaska and how she just can’t remember anybody’s name.
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Look out for dozens of kayaks, canoes and other paddle-powered craft in the Wrangell Narrows Saturday, July 18. It’s the second year for the Paddle Battle in the Narrows, a fund raiser for the Petersburg Medical Center Foundation.
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This year’s return of pink salmon in Southeast Alaska has started off slower than 2013’s record-setting harvest, the parents of this year’s pinks. About a month into the purse seine season but still weeks before the peak, some pink salmon are starting to show up in the commercial seine catches.
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