Category: Syndicated

Ocean Beauty Seafoods says it has accepted an offer on the shuttered seafood processing plant on the Petersburg waterfront but is not identifying the buyer. The former cannery and seafood plant has been on the market for over a year.

Hunting for geese, ducks and other waterfowl in much of Southeast Alaska comes to a close this Monday, December 16.

Local officials this week dug into the details of a multi-million dollar dredging project proposed for Petersburg’s South Harbor. The municipality would be required to fund a portion of the dredging work and will have to decide whether to green light the work and how to pay for it. There’s still some uncertainty about the cost of disposing of the dredged material.

For the upcoming year, Petersburg will have two voting members and two alternates on the board of directors for the hydroelectric agency that sells power to this community along with Wrangell and Ketchikan. That comes during a year when that board could be deciding on repairing Petersburg’s connection to its main power source. The borough assembly Monday named four in the community to that board.

Petersburg’s borough assembly Monday voted down two different resolutions on the roadless rule and the Tongass National Forest.

There’s a new opportunity next February in three Alaskan communities for people interested in getting into the industry of farming seaweed.