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A Petersburg student will soon be on her way to Italy with the American Field Service exchange program. High school junior Jane Fuqua will spend the next six months living with her Italian host family and going to school while surrounded by Italy’s language, culture and history.
Fuqua spoke with Matt Lichtenstein about the program:

Petersburg doctor John Bergren and his family returned to town this month after a year working as a family physician in the eastern part of South Africa. Bergren worked under a South African government program called the rural health initiative, designed to bring foreign primary care doctors into rural parts of that country to help fill a shortage of health care professionals.
Joe Viechnicki spoke with Bergren, along with his wife Laurie, and two daughters Caddy and Ellie, about the experience.

The Petersburg city council has chosen its top candidate for city manager. In a special meeting Monday, councilors unanimously agreed to offer the job to a former Petersburg city manager, Richard Underkofler. If Underkofler does not accept, the council will offer it to Kenneth Weaver who most recently worked as a city manager in New Mexico.

Volunteer fire fighters this morning extinguished a fire in a trident seafoods machine shop and modular building off of main street in Petersburg.

Members of the region’s commercial fishing industry are not happy about an effort by the charter fleet to rework southeast Alaska halibut catch limits for the upcoming year. The charter fleet is asking the International Pacific Halibut Commission to change the way it calculates the projected 2008 charter catch. Both the commercial and charter sectors are facing major cuts to the amount of halibut they will allowed to catch as the commission meets this week (1/15/08)