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Local residents Saturday night can enjoy the talents of the guitarist and composer Chris Proctor, as the national fingerstyle champion makes his first visit to Petersburg. Proctor will perform at a fund raiser dinner, silent auction and concert put on by the Petersburg Arts Council. He’s been recording his acoustic guitar music for nearly three decades and has performed around the world. His work appears on 10 CDs. The latest studio recording is the 2007 album “Ladybug Stomp” and he plans to release another album next year. Joe Viechnicki spoke with Proctor about his performance this weekend.

Residents in central Southeast Alaska are starting to make their formal arguments for and against the formation of a new Petersburg borough government. There’s about one month left in the first of several public comment periods in the state’s review of the borough petition.

There’s some welcome news for Southeast Alaska commercial crabbers this week. The red and blue king crab fishery will open this November, for the first time in six years.

A key federal funding program for local schools in the Tongass and other national forests could once again be linked to logging levels, as it was prior to 2001. The US house is considering a draft bill that would substantially change the funding source for the Secure Rural Schools program, which has come under more scrutiny as congress looks to cut spending.

A former lumber mill owner from Washington State says he’s again considering building a new plant in Wrangell or Petersburg. John Glenn has ties to Petersburg and he’s proposed building a mill here in the past. His latest plan includes a facility that would manufacture construction-grade lumber and employ 40 to 50 people using a combination of old growth and second growth timber. Glenn presented the idea to Petersburg’s Finance Committee and several members of the public Friday.