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Petersburg’s school board Tuesday considered a draft list of major projects that could be priorities for the district over the next six years.

Both sport and commercial fishing interests are backing a bill to reestablish a surcharge on sportfishing licenses to pay for hatchery maintenance and some king salmon production in Southeast Alaska.

Petersburg is reporting no active COVID-19 cases for the first time in over two months.

Southeast Alaska leaders and residents last week testified for restoration of state funding cuts and in some cases additional state money to make up for a loss of federal funding. Those were some of the voices heard by the Alaska House finance committee as it considers a state operating budget for the upcoming year.

The state’s Department of Natural Resources has issued another preliminary decision on transferring state land to the Petersburg borough.

A cooler than normal month of March meant more snow for the Petersburg area, adding some high snowpack amounts on the mountains of central Southeast Alaska this winter.

A new daily airline connection between Juneau and Petersburg started up Monday. Alaska Seaplanes is flying its nine-passenger planes twice a day into James A. Johnson Airport and held a ribbon cutting ceremony there to mark the start of that service.