About a dozen Petersburg students walked out of the high school at 10 a.m. Friday. They were joined by about an equal number of supporters. It was part of a National School Walkout to demand action on gun control.
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A few school districts around the state, including Petersburg and Sitka in Southeast, will be featured in commercials about healthy living. The 30 second videos will be shown statewide in an effort to educate people about keeping youth active.
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The high school baseball season opens for the Petersburg at home this weekend with three games scheduled against the Kayhi Kings of Ketchikan. It’s a young Vikings team in 2018. The group has been practicing about a month and a half, with about three weeks of that out of the gym and up at the ballfields once volunteers helped clear the fields of snow. Joe Viechnicki spoke with head coach Jim Engell about this year’s team.
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The Petersburg Medical Center will soon have a new CEO. The board has decided to hire Phil Hofstetter of Nome to take the reins this summer.
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Petersburg is sending a letter to top officials in the state’s Department of Natural Resources asking for updated information for the borough’s land entitlement. That land grant for the municipality was increased last year in legislation passed by the legislature and signed by the governor. The borough has until October 1st of this year to submit all its requests for land from the state.
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The State of Alaska changed prosecutors and new charges have been filed against 17-year-old Sebastian Davis and 17-year-old Jasmine Ohmer. The two Petersburg teens are accused of hitting deer with their vehicle this winter.
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Some residents of Petersburg are asking the borough assembly to pass a resolution seeking accounting for losses on U.S. Forest Service timber sales on Kupreanof and Prince of Wales islands. It was a discussion topic at the assembly’s meeting Monday, April 16 and may come up at a future meeting.
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The Petersburg Medical Center hosted the four finalists vying for the CEO position. On Friday, they were interviewed by the medical center’s board and hiring committee. Saturday, they held a Q and A session with the public.
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