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A small crowd gathered at Fisherman’s Memorial Park in Petersburg Sunday afternoon for the town’s annual blessing of the fleet. It’s a community tradition to celebrate the new fishing season and remember lost loved ones. Matt Lichtenstein gathered some of the sounds and voices for this radio snapshot of the annual event

The Petersburg School Board approved the district’s 2012 budget this week.

Contrast and color compliment curves and angles, shadows and light in a new series of oil paintings by Petersburg’s Ashley DuRoss. DuRoss is one of eight artists recently selected to do solo shows at the Anchorage Museum over the next few years as part of the Patricia B. Wolf Solo Exhibition Series. The program is highly competitive, according to the museum’s website, which says 70 artists applied. DuRoss draws inspiration from architecture in “Hybrid Spaces Three” which goes on display tonight (5/20) with a 5pm artists reception at Petersburg’s Clausen Museum. Matt Lichtenstein stopped by to speak with DuRoss as she was hanging her work

It’s been a big year for Petersburg’s High School Track and Field program. The girls team won the Southeast Regional 3A conference title for the first time last weekend. Also, more Petersburg girls and boys qualified for state than ever before. Matt Lichtenstein caught up with the track teams during their last practice at home before they left for this weekend’s state meet in Fairbanks.

The Tongass Futures Roundtable has been meeting again this week, but with fewer members. The state recently announced it was leaving the organization, which was formed five years ago to find some consensus among conservation and logging stakeholders in the Southeast. That’s been a struggle and as Matt Lichtenstein reports, several Southeast community leaders late last week (5/12) said they were quitting too.