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Wrangell's unusual end of October avian visitors may have hopped a few islands to the north as winter creeps in, as a pair of Cattle Egrets caused a fair stir in Petersburg last week, enticing several out of town birders to witness the sightings themselves. The birds, regularly spotted along lawns in town for more than a week, are not a native resident to Alaska, or to the American continents, hailing originally from Africa. They arrived in Florida around 1953, hopping across the continent to...
Winter in Wrangell is likely to be a bit warmer than the nights of yesteryear, though whether there will be a white or just slushy entrance to the spring season is still up in the air. “They are going with a greater than 40 percent chance that we'll have above-normal temperatures all this winter, and as far as precipitation, there's no real indicator on which way it's going to go,” said Tim Steffen, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Juneau. “These winters are driven by bigger atmospheric circulations, those global scale patte...
Recently, the Wrangell and Petersburg Boroughs helped one another with a ‘handshake agreement’ that sent Wrangell’s 80-foot Line Truck over to its neighboring municipality for about a week. Petersburg crews worked fast to trim trees close to powerlines before sending the vehicle back on the Friday morning ferry. “We’re trimming over top of the power lines where the snow builds up and makes problems,” said Petersburg Line Foreman Scott Newman. “We’ve got some of it done and still have a lot more to do. Some of the poles are really far off...
Innovations continue to flow from Wrangell as the Path to Prosperity (P2P), an annual competition for entrepreneurs, announced that James Edens and his concept for Edens Marine Resources will be among the 12 competitors moving on to the final round of the contest. "I'm trying to use fishery byproducts in a creative way," Edens said. He's looking to turn the biomass discarded by fisheries - heads, entrails, bones and such - into useable, marketable products, such as fuel for diesel vehicles. "As...
