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After being closed for most of last year, the Boys & Girls Club of Petersburg is open again. Grant funding for the Club was not included in the City’s budget this year, but officials say it will remain open with support from the organization’s main office in Anchorage.

Purse seine permits are up almost 40 percent over last year and gillnet permits 30 percent. Their value has been rising steadily since lows in the last decade, but this year’s spike is exceptional.

Scientists have removed the fossilized remains of an ancient ocean-going reptile from the rocky shores of an island near Kake in Southeast Alaska. Previous work at the site already produced evidence of sea creatures from the age of the dinosaurs, however, these latest bones may be the most intact example of this species of ancient creature ever found in North America.

Family and friends welcomed the cast and crew of a new reality TV show as they pulled their jet skis up to the dock in Petersburg’s North Harbor Wednesday afternoon. Three of the five cast and crew members have ties to Petersburg and the group plans to film along the coast of Alaska for the next few weeks.

A short-term solution to meeting energy shortages in Southeast Alaska could be wood pellets, according to a group that met Tuesday in Petersburg. Using the processed wood to reduce high electrical energy demands was the main topic of discussion at a public meeting about the Southeast Alaska Integrated Resource Plan or SEIRP. That’s a document that’s supposed to outline 50-year energy demands and goals for Southeast communities.