Petersburg’s borough assembly will form a new committee to consider how to regulate marijuana growing and sales in the community. A ballot initiative approved by voters legalizes recreational pot on February 24th and allows municipalities to decide whether to allow marijuana sales and businesses. The state legislature is considering the issue this session and other boroughs and cities throughout Alaska are having the same discussion.
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Petersburg’s borough assembly Monday did not propose any major changes to a draft spending plan for the municipality. However, assembly members will consider spending cuts for the school district and mental health services Friday morning.
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An upgrade to Petersburg’s curbside recycling program got its first approval by the borough assembly Monday, but just barely. Assembly members were concerned with one-time purchases of new collection carts and a truck but agreed to advance the purchases at least until next month.
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Petersburg police and the Southeast Alaska Cities Against Drugs task force arrested a Petersburg man this week in an investigation into two packages of methamphetamine mailed to town.
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Call this the rainiest January on record in Petersburg. That’s according to National Weather Service data dating back to the 1940s.
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