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Petersburg School Board meeting 8/9/22

Assembly approves additional paid time off, raises spending limits for Borough employees

The Petersburg Borough Assembly Monday approved a one time, additional benefit of one week of paid time off for Borough employees. The intention is to replenish the leave time that employees have used to isolate or care for...

Petersburg man attempts to swim across Frederick Sound

On Saturday a man attempted to swim from Mitkof Island in Southeast Alaska to the mainland. It’s about six miles across from where he started at Sandy Beach in Petersburg.

The secrets stored in the muskeg

There’s an intricate world of plants that make up the muskeg bogs on the islands of Southeast Alaska. Some of those plants may hold clues for how people can store water in the future, or grow more disease-resistant food.

“Chumpocalypse” at OBI Seafoods

In Petersburg, the chum salmon from several hatcheries have all come in at once to OBI Seafoods processing plant. Workers are averaging 17-hour shifts to keep up with a volume they say they’ve never seen before.