Category: Local News

A regional non-profit hatchery organization did not release king salmon from a remote site at City Creek near Petersburg this spring.

The U.S. Forest Service is seeking feedback on a long list of deferred maintenance work for cabins, trails, roads, bridges and boat ramps on national forest land in Alaska. The agency is working to catch up on a backlog of repairs and replacements and has a relatively new source of federal funding to address some of those needs.

If you’ve flown in a commercial airline over Southeast Alaska, chances are the plane you took used a remote navigation and communications site at Level Island, about 25 miles southwest of Petersburg. That site’s operated remotely by the Federal Aviation Administration. While, it’s automated now, it used to be staffed by as many as 20 people. This year it’s nearing the end of clean up work for contaminated soils from leaking and spilled fuel and other hazardous materials. The size and cost of that project has turned out to be much larger than anticipated.

Petersburg’s emergency operations center, which has worked on the community’s response to COVID-19 for over a year, is disbanding this month.

Some of the COVID-19 mitigation measures for next school year in Petersburg are still an unknown. School officials are putting together a plan for what face covering and other health measures may look like and say guidance on that is changing. It also may be different in the three local schools and take into account vaccination rates and case numbers. Petersburg’s school board heard the latest update Tuesday.