Petersburg’s Housing Task Force requested $55,040 in funding from the Borough Assembly for a Housing Needs Assessment. The task force says it’s an important step to securing grant funding for housing projects in the future. The Assembly approved the full funding amount, but not without some disagreement.
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Petersburg resident Joseph Tagaban, who is fifteen years old, has been in and out of cancer treatment for two years. He’s now in remission and received a stem-cell transplant in December in Seattle to help protect his health. The family is waiting for his neutrophil counts to be high enough for him to leave the hospital.
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Petersburg’s Volunteer Fire Department and police force responded to a house fire yesterday [Wednesday] at a home about five miles south of downtown. No people were hurt in the fire, but one guinea pig died. And there was severe property damage to the home.
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Alaska schools are preparing to meet the new state educational requirements of the READS Act this fall. The legislation aims to make sure that all Alaska students can read well—before they graduate third grade. But implementing the law will cost schools a lot of money at a time when state funding for education remains flat. So, Petersburg’s school district is scrambling to figure out how to pay for the new requirements.
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A Petersburg couple is retiring after decades of running their restaurant, Joan Mei. Laney and Wamen Yip have served Chinese and American food to the remote island community in Southeast Alaska for 30 years. But the Yips officially retired at the end of December.
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