Family dental business takes a second shot at retirement
Posted by Joe Viechnicki | Apr 21, 2021
Richard and Sharon Sprague (Joe Viechnicki/KFSK)
A dentist who’s repaired and cleaned teeth of thousands in the Southeast communities of Petersburg and Kake is retiring this spring. He moved with his wife and family to Petersburg nearly five decades ago and they’ve retired once before. This time they’re selling the business to the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium which plans to continue a dental practice in Petersburg.
Richard and Sharon Sprague moved to Alaska in 1973. They were both 34 years old, with a Volkswagen bus, a U-haul trailer, a family of four and thousands of pounds of books and other belongings on the ferry trip north.