Petersburg’s city council needs to take a more active role in advocating for borough formation. That’s according to the council’s newest member as well as a member of the public who emphasized the issue at Monday’s regular meeting, prompting the school superintendent to speak in support of the effort. It was one of several borough topics that came up Monday night, though the longest discussion took place behind closed doors.
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A bipartisan group of US Senators wants to extend the expiring Secure Rural Schools program for another five years. The annual payments have provided hundreds of millions of dollars for school districts in national forests around the country, including schools throughout Southeast Alaska.
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A two-person exhibit opens tonight at the Clausen Museum in Petersburg featuring dozens of new abstract paintings and drawings by two well-known local artists, Pia Reilly and John McCabe. The joint show, called “Beyond the Lines,” was McCabe’s idea and is somewhat of a new direction for Reilly. Joe Viechnicki spoke with the two artists this week as they hung their new work.
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Petersburg’s elected leaders have mixed feelings about continuing with a legal challenge to the Alaska Redistricting Board’s plan for new legislative boundaries. And local leaders will soon have to decide whether to spend more money on the lawsuit.
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There’s been bear trouble in towns around Southeast this summer and fall as the animals wander in search of easy food sources like garbage cans. There have been bears spotted walking down the sidewalk and through backyards as recently as yesterday. Local authorities have captured six bears so far including three cubs and released them in the forest, far away from residences. On recent rainy morning, Matt Lichtenstein rode along with state wildlife biologist Rich Lowell as he set out to release a young cub caught near a downtown seafood plant in Petersburg.
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