KFSK partnered with the Petersburg Pilot to host a candidates forum for the Borough Assembly race. Five candidates are running for two seats on the assembly: incumbents Bob Lynn and Thomas Fine-Walsh, and three new candidates: Marc Martinsen, James Valentine, and Tony Vinson. All of them answered questions about their vision for the future of Petersburg.
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Wrangell Narrows, looking south from Papke’s Landing (Photo courtesy of Bill Flor)...
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(Photo: Hannah Flor/KFSK) Petersburg’s Borough Assembly has two open seats in next month’s...
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Every spring, Petersburg’s Little Norway Festival is marshaled in by a horde of vikings and valkyries, who sow joy and chaos across the community. But this year was different — they were also celebrating the life of a lost loved one.
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Commercial trolling for Southeast king salmon closed for the season in July, and will not reopen this month. That marks the second summer in a row their season has ended before they could catch the all of their yearly king allocation. Now, the trade group representing them is outraged.
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A geologist who has studied Southeast Alaska’s rocks and minerals for decades is creating a new geologic map of the region. That map could have a wide range of applications — from educating tourists, to helping prospectors find gold, to helping communities prepare for landslides.
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There are a lot of classic games during Petersburg’s 4th of July celebration – log rolling, the money pile, the egg toss. Nathan Lopez runs the main street events on the 3rd, hosted by the Lighthouse Church. He said some events do get changed from year to year.
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Petersburg’s Borough Assembly is scheduled to look over a couple new ordinances that could change how the Borough levies taxes at its meeting tonight.
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