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Neighborhood watches, parent support groups and a crackdown on kids access to alcohol and drugs – those were a few of the ideas that came out of a town hall meeting in Petersburg this week on youth alcohol and drug abuse. Petersburg Mental Health Services organized the forum in response to an increase in medical emergencies for kids drinking and continued parent frustration with the problem.

A committee looking into ways to revitalize the commercial fishing industry in Petersburg last week continued to refine a long list of ideas for marine support services, education and capital construction. The committee wants to come up with recommendations for the Petersburg City Council later this fall.

The Inter-Island Ferry Authority’s vessel Stikine was damaged while leaving the terminal in Hollis on Prince of Wales Island Thursday morning.

The state says Southeast fishermen should see a much bigger harvest of pink salmon next summer. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is forecasting a harvest that would more than double the catch from 2010.

A new show of dozens of color photographs opens today at the Clausen Memorial Museum. It’s called “A Memory of Lester White” and highlights the work of the long-time Petersburg resident. White was born in 1942, raised in Petersburg and graduated from Petersburg High School. He served as a paratrooper in the Army and spent much of his life fishing in Southeast and Western Alaska. During that time he took hundreds of photographs of the fishing vessels, people and landscapes of his native state. He developed the photos into slides and stored them away, never showing any of his work. Joe Viechnicki spoke with his sister Hoopie Davidson about her brother’s life and photographs.