This summer, the U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded Petersburg and Dillingham schools over $100,000 each. In Petersburg, this means that students will see less sugar and salt, and more locally-sourced foods on the menu.
Petersburg’s school district is cooking up a few new projects with the funds — which could include putting salmon eggs on the menu.
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Petersburg’s Borough Assembly has a heavy agenda ahead of its meeting tonight at 6 p.m., which includes several reports on Borough activities.
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A little more than a month stands between now and Petersburg’s municipal election, and the competition is fierce. Most of the races up and down the list are contested — including the one for Borough Assembly. The terms of assembly members Jeff Meucci and Dave Kensinger are ending, with four in the running for those spots.
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Petersburg’s assembly is taking public testimony on the sale of Borough-owned tidelands at their regular meeting at 6 p.m. They’ll also resume negotiations with Petersburg’s Tribe concerning the sale of a different plot of public land.
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There were several empty seats in Petersburg’s assembly chambers at yesterday’s meeting, with only four of the seven-member assembly in attendance. However, they pressed forward to make big decisions about several plots of land. They passed one resolution to sell borough property, and another to make a last-minute pass to appeal for more land from the state.
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Petersburg Indian Association is looking to buy a few lots from the Petersburg Borough close to where they’re headquartered. The Borough Assembly will vote on their application at its meeting today at noon.
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On the last Sunday in June, people flocked to Petersburg’s northernmost point. They were waiting for the first view of the Hōkūle‘a.
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Polynesian voyagers left Juneau last week to embark on a four-year journey. They plan to circumnavigate the Pacific Rim in the Hōkūle‘a, a twinned-hulled canoe, which Petersburg welcomed on June 25th.
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