The Petersburg borough government will put in a bid for some Alaska Mental Health trust land up for auction this winter at Papke’s Landing ten miles south of downtown Petersburg. The land could be used for parking or access to the state owned boat ramp and dock nearby. The borough assembly Tuesday voted to bid on some or all of the seven lots up for sale.
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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.
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Rock and Roll fans young and old are invited to share their love of rock and roll music at the KFSK Rock and Roll Ball! Rich Jennings and Ross Nannauck III will be spinning the discs for dancing and hula hooping, and might even...
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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.
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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.
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