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Preliminary decision out for part of Petersburg borough’s land entitlement Posted by Joe Viechnicki | Feb 16, 2021 Lands outlined in yellow on southern Mitkof Island would be transferred to the borough government. (Image from the Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mining, Land and Water, Land Conveyance Section) The state of Alaska has issued the first of several expected preliminary decisions to transfer some land to the Petersburg borough. It’s part of a large land entitlement that goes along with the creation of the borough government in 2013. When Petersburg expanded its bou...

Some Petersburg area roads damaged in December deluge Posted by Joe Viechnicki | Dec 9, 2020 Trees block a forest road on Mitkof Island south of Petersburg. (Photo by U.S. Forest Service law enforcement officer Joey Boggs) Heavy rainfall damaged some forest roads, caused at least one landslide and flooded some ditches, yards and homes in the Petersburg area last week. But the area escaped relatively unscathed compared to the natural disaster that occurred to the north in Haines. The late November early December storm dumped inches of rain on the region and did some damage to forest roads on t...