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January 16, 2025 edition of Petersburg Pilot, a weekly newspaper. Petersburg awarded $8.8 million for Scow Bay Haul-out Orin Pierson. Word arrived last week that Petersburg has finally secured funding for the Scow Bay Haul-out and Washdown Pad project. $8.8 million is coming through the Department of Transportation's Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE ...
Original Peter Pan Seafood investor wins auction for troubled …
Sep 26, 2024 · One of the original investors in a troubled Alaska seafood company has narrowly outbid competitor Silver Bay Seafoods in an auction for the firm’s assets — including a major processing plant in the Alaska Peninsula village of King Cove. Rodger May, an entrepreneur and fish trader, bid $37.3 million for the assets of Peter Pan Seafood, including...
Lightning strikes and rumors of meteor impact rumble across town
Nov 14, 2024 · Petersburg residents are buzzing about the intense rumble that swept the area late last Thursday night. The sound —which to some folks seemed like an airplane flying just overhead, or felt like a tree fell into their home— was the roar of thunder resulting from lightning striking near Mitkof Island around 11 p.m. Nov. 7.
Local news 2024 year in review - Petersburg Pilot
January 2024 A prized Mental Health Trust lot by Blind River Rapids, a popular recreation site for sport fishing, was sold at auction to a USCG family. Toler and Jessie Alexander are eager to return to Petersburg after retiring from the Coast Guard in a few years. The borough listed its top priority capital projects, and the Petersburg Medical Cent...
First Wednesday of Every Month at 12pm - 30 seconds, using a steady signal Petersburg Borough Siren Alert & Warning System (SAWS) Siren Testing The sirens — used to alert the public in the event of an emergency such as a Tsunami,
Summer ferry schedule unchanged from recent years; one ship a …
Nov 7, 2024 · The proposed summer 2025 Alaska Marine Highway System schedule shows the same level of service to Petersburg as in the past several years: one ship serving the mainline route, with one stop northbound and one southbound each week. The Columbia will stop in Petersburg northbound on Sundays, on its run from …
Obituary:: Roxane Lillian Swenson Lee, 95 - Petersburg Pilot
Jun 5, 2024 · In June of 1947, after graduating from Stillwater High School in Minnesota, Roxane Lillian Swenson boarded a westbound train in Saint Paul with the ultimate destination of Petersburg, Alaska. Her aunt, Lillian L. Swanson had surprised Roxy with a graduation present of two suitcases and a ticket to Alaska. She arrived in Petersburg on the SS Alaska...
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Jan 9, 2025 · Yesterday's News: News from 25-50-75-100 years ago Jan 9, 2025. January 9, 1925 – Under direction of a committee appointed by the Petersburg Commercial Club plans have been completed for the celebration of the Petersburg Blind Slough Hydro-electric plant at a dance to be given by the Club in Sons of Norway Hall on Saturday evening, January 10th.
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Jan 16, 2025 · Petersburg Pilot archives search page. Entrepreneur proposes greenhouses, water bottling plant at 6-Mile Larry Persily | Jan 9, 2025. WRANGELL — The mayor convened the public workshop, inviting Washington state-based entrepreneur Dale Borgford to lay out for borough officials his plans to build biomass boilers that would burn trash from around Southeast to heat large commercial greenhouses ...
Yesterday's News: News from 25-50-75-100 years ago
January 9, 1925 – Under direction of a committee appointed by the Petersburg Commercial Club plans have been completed for the celebration of the Petersburg Blind Slough Hydro-electric plant at a dance to be given by the Club in Sons of Norway Hall on Saturday evening, January 10th. City Electrician Coyne says, “The old diesel engine will be al...