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Petersburg may put aside some money for its top capital project priorities in hopes of attracting some state grant money. Local elected officials are still hopeful for capital project grant money this winter despite a gloomy budget outlook for the state government.

Petersburg’s borough clerk is retiring next spring and she is being recognized for decades of work in local governments in Alaska and Michigan.

Petersburg’s borough assembly will go back to the drawing board to come up with an ordinance on the use of herbicides and pesticides within the borough. An early draft Monday night raised too many concerns for assembly members. Instead they formed a committee to come up with new language.

The Alaska Mental Health Trust land office is proposing to put land at Papke’s Landing south of Petersburg up for sale this winter. That includes several parcels near the public road and boat ramp that have drawn the interest of Petersburg borough officials this year. Representatives with the trust say, if the parcels are put up for sale, the borough can bid for them along with everyone else.