Friday, July 21, 2023

The Petersburg Borough is moving forward on a solid waste contract that is 34% more expensive that its current one; A group of kayakers stopped off in Petersburg this week on their 12-hundred-mile expedition through the Inside Passage; Dozens of family and friends gathered the night of July 19th to hold a candlelight vigil for Paul Jose Rodriguez, who drowned last week when his kayak capsized on the lake; Kodiak police have named Clint Moudy as a suspect in the fatal hit-and-run collision during the tsunami evacuation last weekend; Alaska's predator control programs do not work, according to research by two retired state Fish and Game biologists and a University of Alaska Fairbanks professor; A giant potato is coming to Skagway and the town is embracing the weirdness.