As the salmon processing season winds down in Petersburg, visiting workers from the United States and around the world will prepare to head home. For some it’s a one-year experience. Others come back summer after summer. Some decide to settle here.
Matt Lichtenstein recently ask some of the workers at the Trident Seafoods plant in Petersburg to tell their stories:
The Thomas Bay Power Authority is searching for common ground in Wrangell and Petersburg’s on-going dispute over energy development.
The authority represents both towns, which have cooperatively managed their publically-owned hydro-electric plant for roughly two decades. But in recent years, that long-time partnership has been strained over Wrangell’s involvement with a private energy company called Cascade Creek and the push for a power line to Canada.
The U.S. Forest Service is closer to making a decision on what to do with nearly 600 miles of forest road on the Petersburg Ranger District. The agency is finalizing its access and travel management plan for the logging roads on Mitkof, Kupreanof and Kuiu islands as well as the mainland near Petersburg. The planning document looks at which roads should remain, open, which should be closed to motorized use and whether some of the roads should be demolished. A public meeting on the latest plan is tonight in Petersburg. Joe Viechnicki spoke with District Ranger Chris savage about the plan for open and closed roads.
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There will be contests for three of Petersburg’s City Council seats in the October election. Meanwhile, one sitting councilor and the Mayor will be unopposed. As the deadline came and went, Matt Lichtenstein spoke with the last few council candidates to file and has this report:
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Along with several contested city council races this fall, Petersburg voters will also have to make decisions on a variety of other candidates and issues. That includes the proposed recall of a sitting councilor and three other ballot questions. There are also contests for school board and library board seats. Here’s a brief rundown of the names and propositions voters will see on the fall ballot:
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