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Early next month, Petersburg voters will decide whether to allow the city to bond for up to one-and-a-half million dollars to help pay for a new library. The local amount works out to roughly 22 percent of the project’s estimated cost. The city and local library advocates have secured the rest of the funding mainly through a combination of state and foundation grants as well as local donations of money and land. Some of that funding is contingent on Petersburg passing the bond. On Friday, Matt Lichtenstein asked City Finance Director Jody Tow and City Librarian Tara Alcock for more detail on the funding and estimated costs of the new building.

New works of art in fabric, paint, sculpture and photography go on display today at the Clausen Memorial Museum for “One-by-One” A Women's Invitational Art show. It’s been an annual event for more than a decade in Petersburg. Matt Lichtenstein stopped by to visit with one of this year’s participants, Susan Christiansen, as she helped put the works on display.

Southeast Alaska’s summer troll fishery closes Tuesday (Sept 20th) after a season of small coho catches, good prices, and bad weather.

A Petersburg group that provides support for the schools is looking for more volunteers. Partners in Education or PIE wants to find more parents and other community members who are willing to donate a little time to help teachers with a variety of tasks from photocopying papers or tuning guitars to organizing activities. PIE members Dana Simon and Katie Gilpin spoke with Matt Lichtenstein about the organizations work in the district

The penalties are changing again for Petersburg students in activities who are caught using drugs, alcohol or tobacco. After three lengthy discussions on the issue over the past month, it looks like the School Board has settled on several changes. The new rules, which still have to be finalized, are not as strict in some ways but stricter in others.