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Petersburg will add its name to an agreement among coastal Alaska communities on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and dealing with global climate change. Petersburg’s city council Monday gave the green light to sign the Alaska Coastal Communities Global Climate Change Compact, despite some misgivings among council members.

Aspiring actresses and actors at Petersburg High School are taking on a wide range of Shakespearean characters this week. The high school has three showings of “Chill With Will, An Evening With Shakespeare.” The play offers glimpses of some of the bard’s best known tragedies and comedies, tied together by some more modern narration.

Residents of two communities on northern Prince of Wales island should be seeing a big drop in their electrical bills in the next few years. That’s thanks to a publicly-funded power line extension project. State grant money will allow the private company Alaska Power and Telephone to connect Coffman Cove and Naukiti to the island's power grid in the next three years.

Planes won’t be landing on Petersburg’s runway during a month-long shutdown that starts up Sunday night. The closure will allow for the replacement of three culverts underneath the landing strip. It will have airline passengers taking a shuttle bus and ferry to and from Alaska Airline flights in Wrangell for the next month.

A private company has given up federal permits to study the potential for tidal power generation at two sites in Southeast Alaska. Washington D.C. based Alaska Tidal Energy last month surrendered its Federal Energy Regulatory Commission preliminary permits for tidal power in the Wrangell Narrows near Petersburg and Icy Passage near Gustavus.