An early season hatchery chum run important to the Southeast Alaska commercial purse seine fleet is being called a huge disappointment and has closed to fishing because of a poor return.
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Borough electrical workers in Petersburg have a new three-year contract. Petersburg’s borough assembly Monday ratified the agreement, which provides small salary increases and some other changes.
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Commercial gillnet catches around Wrangell and Petersburg have yielded fewer sockeye salmon than expected in the first few weeks of the season. The fleet had no openings for Stikine River king salmon in May and early June.
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Motorists can expect more traffic delays on South Nordic Drive south of downtown Petersburg next week.
Work is expected to start on installation of a new sewer line in the roadway for about one mile out to the ferry terminal. That’s being done in conjunction with sidewalk, drainage and pavement replacement on that stretch of South Nordic.
The Alaska Marine Highway System has canceled this summer’s ferry sailings between Petersburg and northern Prince of Wales Island.
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