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A local man has won the Petersburg Chamber of Commerce’s Rain Game Classic, missing the actual amount of rainfall last year by just 12-hundredths of an inch.

It was a big milestone Friday for the drive down dock project on the Petersburg waterfront. Tamico, the contracting company building the new dock, lowered a 140-foot transfer bridge into place. That bridge will allow vehicles to drive onto a new 180-foot float still being assembled two miles south of town in Scow Bay.

A multi-million dollar electrical power line extension to connect Petersburg and Kake is a little closer to becoming reality this year. The U.S. Forest Service has released a draft Enviromental Impact Statement examining three possible routes for the connection, which could bring cheaper electricity to Kake. That town’s mayor made an impassioned plea for support of the project during a meeting Wednesday in Petersburg.

Fans of comic books and radio drama are in for a treat this weekend in Petersburg as the critically acclaimed multi-media performance “The Intergalactic Nemesis” will be doing two shows this weekend at the Wright Auditorium. The show is a live-action graphic novel performed by three actors.