The Petersburg school board is hoping to put preparation time back into the daily schedule for teachers at Petersburg high school. The board discussed ways to include teacher prep time in next year’s district budget. Board members also approved a change in location for future board meetings and talked about the district’s liability for housing student athletes.
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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.
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Volunteer fire fighters this morning extinguished a fire in a trident seafoods machine shop and modular building off of main street in Petersburg.
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