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The Tongass Rainforest Festival gets fully underway later this week in Petersburg, but the festival art show is already on display. Dozens of paintings, sculptures, photographs and other pieces can be seen at the Clausen Memorial Museum. Matt Lichtenstein spoke with some of the artists before last Friday’s opening.

Petersburg is playing host to lots of new art this month. Over at Seaport Gallery, contemporary realist Beth Flor has more than 30 of her works on display through the week. She spoke with KFSK’s Matt Lichtenstein.

A Superior court judge has dismissed a former city councilor’s lawsuit against two city employees in Petersburg. The suit alleged invasion of privacy and defamation. It was set for a jury trial this month. However, after hearing pre-trial arguments last week, the judge granted a defense motion to dismiss the whole thing and ordered the plaintiff to pay the defendant’s legal expenses.

The head of the United States Forest Service says the proposed transition to more forest restoration and second-growth logging will not require a special amendment to the Tongass Land Management Plan. On his recent trip to Petersburg, Chief Tom Tidwell talked about the transition as well as the status of the national Roadless Rule in an interview with Matt Lichtenstein, who has the second of our two reports on their conversation.