The Petersburg Borough Assembly Monday approved a one time, additional benefit of one week of paid time off for Borough employees. The intention is to replenish the leave time that employees have used to isolate or care for...
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On Saturday a man attempted to swim from Mitkof Island in Southeast Alaska to the mainland. It’s about six miles across from where he started at Sandy Beach in Petersburg.
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There’s an intricate world of plants that make up the muskeg bogs on the islands of Southeast Alaska. Some of those plants may hold clues for how people can store water in the future, or grow more disease-resistant food.
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In Petersburg, the chum salmon from several hatcheries have all come in at once to OBI Seafoods processing plant. Workers are averaging 17-hour shifts to keep up with a volume they say they’ve never seen before.
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A Petersburg teenager who was featured on an ESPN My Wish series this month has restarted medical treatment in Seattle after learning last week his leukemia has returned.
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