Fishery managers in Canada this summer are moving salmon by helicopter around a landslide that’s partially blocked a major tributary of the Stikine River across the border from Southeast Alaska. The May slide created a barrier for Chinook and sockeye salmon returning to the Tahltan River to spawn.
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A museum in Petersburg is reaching out to try and identify hundreds of World War Two era photos of people from central Southeast Alaska. The images are being archived at Petersburg’s Clausen Museum and may include photos of people from Wrangell, Kake and other remote communities.
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Local residents Monday, July 21st. can weigh in on sales tax changes that could be on this fall’s borough ballot. Petersburg’s borough assembly is meeting and they’ll be voting on the second reading of ordinances to put six tax changes up for a public vote in October. Five of those would change or remove exemptions to sales tax.
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David Olson shares his memories of early Southeast Alaska in a new book: Bonded by Water. Olson, who is 85 years-old, started writing to preserve his family stories. Some of that history takes place in Ketchikan in the 1940s.
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