“You’re excluding miles of prime hunting real estate from subsistence users,” said local subsistence hunter Ralph Strickland. “And I don’t know if you check the price at the grocery store — meat costs a lot. I think it’s a lot of land lost to subsistence use that isn’t anywhere near anybody’s homes.”
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Petersburg Medical Center is starting to fill ranks in its nursing department, following several months of staff shortages. That’s according to a report that will go before the Borough’s Hospital Board at its meeting tonight.
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Petersburg’s Viking basketball players are the reigning champions of this season’s 2A regional and state tournaments. It’s the first time they’ve held that title in seven years.
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This year, Petersburg’s Lady Vikings basketball teams didn’t win enough of their games this season to make it to the state tournament. But the Lady Vikings have come a long way since last year when they didn’t win a single one of their games. This year, they won four — including their first win at regionals in a few years.
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Stedman Elementary School students competed in the Petersburg School District’s annual spelling bee early this month. It was a uniquely tight competition, with two emergency spell-offs between the finalists.
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