Petersburg’s proposed plan is 34 pages long and includes detailed safety protocols that will be required for different age groups. That includes masking for most students and staff, distancing, and symptom free buildings.
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Alaska State Troopers have identified the driver in last week’s fatal motor vehicle wreck on Mitkof Island about 27 miles south of Petersburg.
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The Petersburg Medical Center is asking residents to submit short videos of themselves dancing to the song “Happy” by Pharrell Williams.
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Petersburg’s assembly Monday agreed on the date and format for a community forum on an emergency ordinance. There’s been significant opposition this summer to updating the local government’s law on emergency measures and responsibilities. A question and answer session with a moderator is planned for next month, before the assembly takes its final vote on the ordinance.
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The Petersburg Emergency Operations Center has come out with new safety guidelines for people using the Post Office. They’re asking residents to use an alternating schedule and use an outdoor line when they’re there.
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Petersburg’s borough assembly Monday approved spending over three quarters of a million dollars of the borough’s coronavirus relief funding for school staff and equipment that will help with the start of the new school year. Assembly members questioned whether that money would also be needed for other services in the community but approved the request.
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The Petersburg School District is still negotiating plans for reopening school this fall, taking into account the ever-changing guidelines from the State as well as input from public health, parents and teachers. But a plan is starting to take shape.
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Sitka Republican Bert Stedman this summer has been visiting communities in Southeast Alaska as he seeks re-election to the senate district he’s represented for the last 17 years. He faces a primary challenge in August but no general election challenger.
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