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A 37-year employee with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Petersburg is cleaning out his desk this month and preparing for retirement. Biologist William Bergmann is handing over the reins of managing commercial fishing catches in the Petersburg and Wrangell area. The 61-year-old started as a temporary worker at Fish and Game in Petersburg in 1972. His first job was with the Division of Sport Fish counting steelhead at a weir on Petersburg Creek not far from where he was raised. Bergmann spoke with KFSK’s Joe Viechnicki about his nearly four-decade long career.

The city of Petersburg has received applications to recall two city council members. Sponsors turned in the two applications Friday afternoon seeking the removal of councilors Lee Corrao and Sara Stoner from office. The recall applications have been sent to the city attorney who will determine if they meet state standards and can be circulated for signatures. If they are approved for circulation, the petitions would need 181 signatures to force a vote.

Petersburg’s mayor says he has called a meeting of the city council Monday to discuss terms for buying out the remainder of the city manager’s contract and plans for filling the manager’s job on an interim basis.

The latest plans for a large hydro electric power plant on the mainland north of Petersburg call for tunneling into a remote mountain in Thomas Bay and siphoning water from the perched mountaintop lake for generating electricity. The private company seeking to build the project says it will sell the power initially to customers in Southeast Alaska, but eventually hopes to export the electricity. Cascade Creek LLC presented revised plans for its Cascade Creek hydro plant to Petersburg residents last week.

A federal judge is requiring the U.S. Forest Service to swear that it has released all of the documents related to the disciplinary action it took against a whistleblower employee on the Tongass National Forest. Marketa Ith asked for the documents about her late husband, Glen, under the Freedom of Information Act.