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Petersburg High School basketball teams and the Viking cheer squad kick off their season tonight with homecoming weekend games against the Wrangell Wolves. Sports fans can watch boys and girls teams playing Wrangell tonight and tomorrow on the Vikings home court. Matt Lichtenstein caught up with basketball and cheer leading coaches and filed this report.

Petersburg’s city council wants to take a look at what it costs to own and maintain city buildings, including the newest structures being built by the local government. Councilors want to be able to plan ahead for future major repairs on the new fire hall, which is nearing completion, and the new library, once that’s constructed next year.

Petersburg-area residents can now get word of a tsunami warning, ammonia leak or other emergency through their phones, mobile devices, and email. The community has enrolled in the Code Red system, a high-speed emergency notification service offered by a Florida-based company called Emergency Communications Network. Area residents are now being encouraged to register to receive the emergency alerts.

Petersburg officials continue to struggle with a pollution liability insurance requirement for businesses that lease city land. The city has included the provision in all its leases since 2006. However, it’s only enforced it for one lessee who has complained of unequal treatment. The City Council had another lengthy discussion of the issue during its regular meeting this week but came to no conclusions. Matt Lichtenstein reports:

Petersburg area residents will see some substantial changes to the fees at the community gym and pool facilities next month. Without comment this week, the City Council unanimously gave final approval to a new, simplified rate structure ordinance. It bumps the daily rates up a dollar but it drops cost of a yearly pass by well over half. Another big change is that all daily, monthly, and yearly passes will be good for all facilities. Currently, customers buy passes for specific uses like the weight room or the pool or they pay much more for an all-facility pass.
According to Parks and Recreation Director Donny Hayes, the changes are aimed at getting more people to use the facilities. Hayes spoke with KFSK’s Matt Lichtenstein about the new rates this week.