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Wrangell Police Department officers are investigating allegations of an assault that led to the hospitalization of a 17-year old Wrangell High School student. The incident, which is alleged to have occurred at a residence near the corner of Case Avenue and Front Street in the late evening hours of Saturday, Jan. 12, involved a party where allegedly a number of minors and at least two adults were present – and where WPD Lieutenant Merlin Ehlers said alcohol was a major contributing factor. “We are investigating a number of individuals who wer...
With the 2012 school shootings in Connecticut and California still fresh in our collective memory, a proposal from an Anchorage lawmaker would allow for teachers or other permanent school employees to carry concealed weapons on campus “for defensive use” in the State of Alaska. House Bill 55, from Republican Rep. Bob Lynn, would allow public districts and private schools to adopt written policies spelling out the circumstances under which firearms could be possessed and used. The proposal, which...
Wrangell’s Boy Scout Troop 40 is making national news after being included in the January edition of Boy’s Life, the official monthly journal of the Boy Scouts of America. The troop was singled out for recognition after their trip up the Stikine River to complete 300 hours of manual labor to remove non-native plant species over the course of five days in the wilderness. Troop 40 Scoutmaster Shirley Wimberly said she was excited to see her group of scouts featured in the national publication. “I am just ecstatic,” Wimberly said. “We have had thi...
Head coach Jeff Rooney spends a few moments with some of Wrangell’s youngest wrestlers as the 2013 season of Wolfpack Youth Wrestling began on Friday, Jan. 14 at the community gym....
A new confidentiality agreement related to credentialing of medical staff, and changes to a number of personnel policies at Wrangell Medical Center, were the main topics of discussion and action during the Jan. 16 WMC Board of Trustees meeting. The board began with a new agreement that each member must sign agreeing to, “hold as confidential all credentialing and privileging information obtained during the course of and following my association with the Wrangell Medical Center Governing Board.” Members will also not be allowed to make copies of...
The Wolves basketball squad lost two hard fought games last weekend as the Craig Panthers rolled to victories on Wrangell’s home court. On Friday night, the Wolves led most of the game and came close to a win as they fell by a 56-50 final score, with senior Ryan Reeves blasting through for 20 points on the night – outstripping even Craig’s best offensive player who shot for 18 points. Reeves also went 11-for-14 from the line and dropped five deuces during the game. Wrangell was hampered by tu...
In 1908, the poet Grantland Rice wrote a truism that exists in all interscholastic, non-professional sports. In his poem “Alumnus Football” he wrote, “For when the One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks – not that you won or lost – but how you played the Game.” Through the years and after millions upon millions of high school basketball, volleyball and other sporting events, that stanza most likely became, “It's not whether you win or lose. It's how you play the game.” Th...
The sales agent for Marine Travel Lift, the brand of haul-out machine currently in use at the Marine Service Center in downtown Wrangell, is none too happy about the Borough Assembly’s recent decision to accept an Italian bid for a new haul-out at the yard. Bill Kendrick, the owner of the Vancouver-based Kendrick Equipment Ltd. – and high bidder for a new vessel haul-out unit – is taking advantage of a 10-day protest period to challenge the decision by the Wrangell Port Commission to appro...
With less than four months remaining until the rededication of Shakes Island and the Chief Shakes Tribal House, the Wrangell Cooperative Association is at a make-or-break moment when it comes to housing a group of 1,000-plus guests and dignitaries who will visit the island May 3-4. According to WCA Board of Directors member Ken Hoyt, a number of spaces have been filled, primarily by reserving nearly every room in the Stikine Inn, Diamond C Hotel, and Alaskan Sourdough Lodge, as well as a number of bed and breakfasts and private homes. It’s s...
Recent rains may have melted away snow on the ground in Wrangell, but a magnificent scene could be found looking northeast from Ishiyama Drive late last week as heavy snow remained on the mainland....
A specially outfitted ship with facilities to repair underwater fiber optic lines made its way up Zimovia Strait on Thursday, Jan. 10 to assist GCI in repairs to cables damaged during a 7.5 magnitude earthquake on Friday, Jan 4. The vessel, C/L Wave Venture, began its repair operations approximately 8 miles south of downtown with work on the line leading from Ketchikan to Wrangell, which was the first of two cables affected during the quake. The ship later moved north to a point just off Heritag...
Although they played in a more aggressive form than in recent outings, the Wrangell Wolves basketball team hit a brick wall last weekend in the form a Metlakatla Chiefs squad that defeated them 64-34 on Friday evening and 49-27 on Saturday night. It was a rough night from the beginning for the Wrangell squad as Met fired off six unanswered points in the first 90 seconds of the Friday game, allowing the Wolves to fall behind 16-9 in the first period – though the home team was buoyed by a trey f...
The Lady Wolves basketball team faced a tough series against the Metlakatla Miss Chiefs as they fell in two games 48-29 and 47-22 respectively on Wednesday and Thursday last week. The first period held hope for the Wrangell squad on Friday as they rallied to a one-point deficit at 11-10 in Met’s favor, but a second period run by the Lady Miss Chiefs – where they outscored Wrangell 10-3 –led to a halftime score with Wrangell down 23-13. Wrangell was able to put 13 points on the board in the third period, courtesy of three treys apiece by Katie...
A world traveling, multi-lingual expert in comparative religion and intra-professional relationships in the medical field is now calling Wrangell home as the news reporter for KSTK FM. Shady Grove Oliver, a graduate of Columbia University in New York City with a Master’s Degree in Narrative Medicine and undergraduate studies in foreign languages and comparative religion, began work at the community supported Alaska Public Radio Network station on Monday, Jan. 7. Oliver, who has spent a number o...
Movie lovers may soon get a new digital projection system for the theater at the James and Elsie Nolan Center after the Seattle-based McRae Theater Equipment, Inc. filed the single bid for a replacement to the old-fashioned 35mm film projectors currently in use. The bid for $62,482.85 will be discussed and possibly approved during the Jan. 22 meeting of the Borough Assembly....
Ken Hoyt, the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium traditional foods program director, took a trip to Kake last week to take part in the town’s annual “Kake Day” and to hold a series of meetings with his SEARHC counterparts in the business of keeping elders and members of the Native community well fed all year round. In addition to Hoyt, Wrangellites Sue Stevens, Tommy Rooney, Joel Churchill and Mary Lou Churchill made the trip as representatives of the SEARHC traditional foods project. “We are working under the same grant and in a si...
A 7.5 magnitude earthquake, with an epicenter located 110 kilometers west of Craig and approximately 6 miles under the earth’s surface, struck just minutes before midnight on Friday, shaking houses across the region. A tsunami warning was initially lodged for almost all of Southeast, including Wrangell and Petersburg, though it was cancelled within hours of the initial quake. No substantial elevation in the tide level at Wrangell or Petersburg was reported. Although no evacua...
Customers of GCI in Wrangell lost Internet, cable television and cell phone coverage in the early hours on Saturday, Jan. 5 after a massive earthquake rattled the coast of Southeast Alaska. The 7.5 magnitude temblor, which was located 110 kilometers west of Craig and was approximately six miles under the earth’s surface, struck just minutes before midnight on Friday, shaking houses across the region – and knocking out the communications provider approximately half-an-hour after the initial sho...
A record group of 50 diehard participants braved the chilly waters of Shoemaker Bay on the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 1 during the 14th Annual Polar Bear Swim....
The business of processing fresh seafood is one of the staple industries in Wrangell. It eclipsed logging as the top provider of jobs after the closure of both mills and has seen seasonal employment opportunities for locals and visitors alike in those years. One of the major processors in the borough is Sea Level Seafoods, and John Moody, a long-time Wrangell resident, has been working there since his teens, rising to the helm of dockside operations and ensuring the catch made by our fishing...
A local man is behind bars after being charged as part of a drug sales ring operating out of Wrangell and Ketchikan – and included the alleged sale and delivery of marijuana and methamphetamine. Wrangell Police Department officers arrested Larry Dean Simpson, 54, on Dec. 24 at his residence on Evergreen Road after a warrant seeking him was lodged in Ketchikan. Simpson was arrested after allegations came to light that he was working in concert with Wrangell property owner David Bach, who Ketchikan police believe “was engaged in a continuing cri...
Two sentences can sum up the Homecoming basketball weekend between the Lady Wolves and Petersburg’s Lady Vikings, which began last Friday night. Friday was a night of high drama. Saturday was a game of strenuous play. After tipoff, and for the first quarter of action on Friday, the Wrangell squad played decisively and with speed – racking up a 23-13 halftime lead off a show stopping performance by the duo of Kayla Rooney and Alyssa Allen. The pair put up a combined 13 points and shot better tha...
The Wolves basketball squad suffered a pair of losses last weekend to the Petersburg Vikings during Wrangell’s 2013 homecoming celebration – the latest in a string of defeats for the boys’ team and head coach Ray Stokes. After a low scoring first period on Friday night, when Wrangell trailed just 6-5, the Petersburg offense kicked into high gear in the second to take a 24-14 advantage – spurred mostly by the defensive play of Vikings Clayton Franklin and Jared Volk, and the big offense of Tris...
The debate about whether a travel lift bid from an Italian manufacturer will be accepted – over a higher bid from a North American company – is over, as the members of the Wrangell Port Commission voted on Thursday, Jan. 3 to accept the deal and purchase a new haul out unit for the Marine Service Center. Ascom S.p.A. a Modena, Italy-based firm, will provide the City and Borough of Wrangell with a 300-ton unit to replace the aging 150-ton Marine Travel Lift unit currently in use at the MSC. Prior to last week’s decision by the commission, some...
It’s official – the City and Borough of Wrangell has decided to purchase a 300-ton travel lift from Ascom S.p.A., an Italian manufacturer that recently won the bidding contest for the right to supply the Marine Service Center with its new haul out equipment. The decision to buy the new lift became official after the Borough Assembly approved the bid in a unanimous vote during their Jan. 8 regular meeting, which was their first of the New Year. Debate had initially raged about whether the Modena,...