Gold Dust Rising is a honkey-tonk bluegrass trio of far-flung musicians who met in Nome. They were invited to Petersburg as visiting artists by the Petersburg Arts Council.
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Petersburg’s Early Childhood Education Task Force met Wednesday evening to discuss a collaboration with the Boys and Girls Clubs- Alaska. The organization is interested in restarting programming in Southeast Alaska, including Petersburg.
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Long-time Sitka teacher Rebecca Himschoot recently became a freshman in the Alaska Legislature as the District 2 House representative. District Two includes Petersburg, Sitka, Yakutat, Craig, Hoonah, Kake, and much of Southeast Alaska. Himschoot is an independent and replaced Representative Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, who held the position for ten years as a Democrat.
Read MorePetersburg’s School Board will meet this evening to set the upcoming school year’s calendar. Superintendent Erica Kludt-Painter is proposing a calendar similar to this year’s. Kludt-Painter will also talk about recent attendance issues. Kids have been missing many school days this year partly for long family vacations.
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KFSK in Petersburg, Alaska is looking for a summer intern! This is a fantastic opportunity to get experience with all aspects of reporting for a small radio newsroom and helping run a small rural radio station. The intern will get on-air live hosting experience. They will emerge with a portfolio of stories as well as samples of their on-air work. This is our 20th year running the internship.
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