Last weekend’s fall chum salmon opening in Southern Southeast marked the end of the seine season for the most part in the panhandle this year. It looks like the 2011 seine fishery had a record value with the combination of a big pink harvest in northern southeast, good chum catches in the south, and high prices all around.
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Petersburg’s New City Manager has been busy meeting with city staff and other officials and familiarizing himself with local issues. From Borough Formation and Harbor improvements to the new library project and street repairs, Manager Steve Giesbrecht has his work cut out for him. Giesbrecht took the job in Petersburg after serving an eight-year tenure as manager in the similar-sized town of Electra, Texas. As he told KFSK’s Matt Lichtenstein, Giesbecht spent much of his career in the private sector
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The rain held off Saturday afternoon for the 18th edition of the Humpy 500 go cart race down the in Petersburg. This year’s race featured a dozen 55-gallon drum go carts decked out to look like everything from a Viking ship, to the Whiskey November buoy, to a sea horse. Joe Viechnicki stopped by Petersburg Fisheries plant during the cart judging just before Saturday’s race and put together this audio postcard.
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Northern Prince of Wales Island, Petersburg and Wrangell could be connected by a new year-round ferry service as soon as this spring. The federal government has offered a loan of nearly three million dollars to the fledgling North End Ferry Authority. Project planners say there’s more work to do, but that loan covers the major financing needed for start up.
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Petersburg’s library project is moving forward since voters narrowly approved a one and half million dollar bond issue in Tuesday’s election. Construction on the new building could start as early as next spring. It was the top issue on the local ballot.
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