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Petersburg High School's baseball team stepped up to the plate on their home field last weekend, taking on Thunder Mountain High School in a series of difficult games that resulted in three losses for the Vikings. Although Friday's game and Saturday's doubleheader all finished in a similar fashion-with fielding errors creating a bottleneck with the team's limited pitching ..read more

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Last weekend art students and teachers from nine Southeast Alaska high schools arrived in Petersburg by floatplane, Alaska Airlines, and jet boat to participate in the 28th Annual Region V Art Fest. This is the third time Petersburg High School has hosted the event. PHS art teacher Lisa Shramek, an Art Fest alumna, spearheaded the three-day event that brought sixty-eight students and sixteen ..read more

Bud was born on February 13, 1947, to Gainhart Samuelson, Senior, and Mildred (Massey) Samuelson. A lifelong resident of Petersburg, he grew up living with his mother and siblings on Hammer Slough. Summers were spent with his father at Portage Bay, where he loved fishing and hunting and grew determined to one day run a commercial fishing vessel of his own and to be a good provider for his family ..read more

April 17 – Petersburg Police Department (PPD) received a report of an individual sleeping at a business on haugen Drive who woke up and left the area. An officer conducted extra patrols. An officer assisted a citizen. An officer responded to a report of suspicious activity on South Nordic Drive. PPD received a report of a disabled vehicle. PPD received a report of found property and notified the o ..read more

This Friday, the Petersburg Police Department and the Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department are turning up the heat for the annual Guns and Hoses Chili Cook-off fundraiser. This will be the third year Don and Julie Spigelmyre have hosted the cook-off. The event was dreamed up by the couple on an airplane ride from Michigan to Petersburg. "We got to talking about how much we appreciate the ..read more

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To free up preschool classroom space, Petersburg Children's Center (PCC) hopes to build a parking lot and a new building to house the Eagle's Nest after-school program. The Petersburg Borough Assembly is considering a rezoning ordinance proposed by PCC, passing it in the first of three readings April 15. If approved by the assembly two more times, the ordinance will rezone four lots ..read more