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The Southeast Alaska Power Agency announced rebates for its Southeast power customers in the amount of $1.65 million last month after a Dec. 13 vote by the agency’s Board of Directors. The rebate is equivalent to a little more than a full cent reduction in the wholesale power rate, which is currently set at 6.8 cents per kilowatt-hour. With the rebate in place, customers will pay a little less than 5.8 cents per kilowatt-hour. The rebate to Wrangell will total $326,189.30, while Petersburg w...
Wrangell's American Legion M.E.P. Post Commander Terry Courson, left, was proud to present Einar Haaseth Sr. with an AR-15 Stag Arms rifle. Einar won the rifle during a recent raffle. The proceeds are to go to bolster the Post's finances....
Wrangell alumnus Lizzy Romane stretches for the ball against the Lady Wolves on Wednesday night as former WHS players took on current players. The Alumni team won the match 38-32....
Christmas, as a remembrance of the birth of Jesus Christ may never change, but the times we live and celebrate in do. The prism of the past may be cloudy for some who lived in Wrangell in the early 20th century, but for others, not so dim. In December of 1944, it was a time before television. Franklin D. Roosevelt had just been re-elected for a fourth term, and Wrangell native Willie Eyon can clearly tell you about what happened on Front Street as the holidays came to the island. One of...
Every Christmas holiday, the men and women of the United States Air Force’s North American Aerospace Defense Command turn their satellite dishes northward to track a very special target. The Alaskan region of NORAD at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson tracks that bogey, otherwise known as Santa Claus, every year on the evening of Dec. 24. USAF Master Sergeant Mikal Canfield said the process of tracking Santa begins in Alaska and is spread across the world as the evening moves on. “It all starts wi...
The Washington-based Yakama Nation Tribal Council unanimously voted last week to support the passage of Sealaska’s land legislation, the Southeast Alaska Native Land Entitlement Finalization and Jobs Protection Act (S. 730 and H.R. 1408). The Nation sent a letter of support to members of the Washington state congressional delegation. Yakama’s chairman, Harry Smiskin, stated in the Dec. 6 letter to Congress, “As Native peoples, we have sacred and spiritual ties to our ancestral homelands and n...
A Wrangell man could face significant jail time after an arrest earlier this month in a domestic violence case. Steven R. Marshall, 52, was arrested on Wednesday, Dec. 7 at a residence in the Bloom Trailer Court after police responded to an argument between Marshall and his girlfriend. Marshall, who was indicted last week by a grand jury on seven charges, including sexual assault and assault in the first degree, is alleged to have raped, strangled and hit the victim, as well as threatening her...
The Wolves of Wrangell High School hosted the Craig Panthers on Dec. 16-17 in the home opener for WHS. Things got off to a bumpy start for the Wrangell Wolves varsity team on Friday night as they came within one point of winning their first game in front of the home crowd. Although it was close throughout the game, Craig was able to pull out the 58-57 win in the 4th quarter. Exceptional offense in the Friday game came courtesy of Clayton Stokes with 28 points. Clayton Rhodes added 9 points,...
The Lady Wolves weekend outing fared no better than the boys’ efforts as they fell to the Lady Panthers 73-44 on Friday, Dec. 16. Senior Loni Buness and junior MiKayla Stokes were both in double digits for the squad with 16 and 11 points, respectively. Erica Smith put up 6 points, with Alyssa Allen bringing in 5 points of her own. Shayna Schultz put a pair of deuces in for 4 points, with a solitary bucket for 2 points. Faring only slightly better on Saturday night, the Lady Wolves fell 51-40 a...
(Standing, left to right) Teresa Flores, Haley Davis, Makena Hammer, Trent Stokes and Caleb Groshong; (Kneeling, left to right) Ashley Allen, Abby Armstrong, Erin Galla, Tymon Teat, Stone Guggenbickler and Trevor Miller; (Seated, left to right) Kalyn Easterly, Elizabeth Armstrong, Jamie Early, Jonah Comstock, Jacob Dow and Jake Eastaugh. Not pictured: Draven Golding....
The Wrangell Wolves wrestling team took their show on the road to the Alaska 1A-3A tournament at Nikiski over the Dec. 9-10 weekend – and came away with a 5th place win for two of the squad’s wrestlers. Of the 12 wrestlers on the Wolves squad, five of them – Kurt Dingwall, Tanner Thomassen, Jeff Rooney, Jr., Devon Miller and Lorenzo Silva – earned their right to attend the state tournament. According to head coach Jeff Rooney, the team battled hard through the tournament that saw 16-man bracket...
For one young man from Wrangell, the future is looking southward – first to the Rocky Mountains and then to Southeast Asia. Alex Buness, a 2011 graduate of Wrangell High School and faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is headed to the church’s Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah for a 12-week course in how to present the gospel and seek converts to the faith. Buness’ mission will take him to the Philippines – and it’s a challenge he said he is looking f...
The Alaska Division of Sport Fish is now accepting public comment on its statewide fish-stocking plan. The Division, with assistance from private non-profit hatchery operators, plans to release nearly eight million fish into the waters of Alaska every year for the next five years to benefit recreational anglers. According to Ken Marsh of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, outlining how many of each species of fish to be stocked at each location is the main purpose of the stocking plan. “On...
Wrangell physician Greg Salard emerged as the victor this week after winning a portion of a motion he filed against Wrangell Medical Center in First District Court, along with Alaska Island Community Services, seeking to have his hospital privileges reinstated. A ruling by Judge Kevin Miller on Monday, Dec. 12, temporarily reinstated Salard, with restrictions, and directed that all parties move forward with a hearing to evaluate his permanent access to hospital privileges under Title IX of the W...
A petition by nurses at Wrangell Medical Center to have the Alaska Nurses Association act as a collective bargaining unit for non-supervisory nurses has failed after a review by the Alaska Labor Relations Agency. In the conclusion of the ALRA decision and order, factors such as the size of the community, wages, hours and other working conditions led to a recommendation of a united bargaining unit. “A single, wall-to-wall unit of non-supervisory employees at (WMC) is the unit appropriate for c...
The Wrangell Borough Assembly met for a public hearing and open session on Tuesday, Dec. 13 to discuss a number of issues related to voting, property issues, budgetary appropriations and contracts, and to consider recommendations on what type of roof will grace the new Wrangell Medical Center. Before the open session portion of the meeting the assembly took up a public hearing and second reading on a proposed ordinance amending the borough code to allow absentee voting by fax. Later, in open...
The Wrangell Medical Center renovation project team made a triumphant return to Wrangell this week as the new hospital came inches closer to becoming a reality in the borough. The team is composed of architect Julia Covington of David E. Johnson Architects in Nashville, Tenn., and staff from American Health Facilities Development, Layton Construction and Sanderling Healthcare. The modular buildings to be used in the new hospital are to be provided by Sanderling, a Nashville-based firm that...
Holiday sales came to Wrangell in a big way last weekend as the 2011 “Midnight Madness” event helped both retailers and consumers in the borough prepare for the holidays. The event, which has been an annual day of sales and discounts since the late 1980s, was a big success for the businesses on Front Street and beyond. The Wrangell Chamber of Commerce sponsors the annual event and chamber president John Taylor said it is an evening affair that stimulates business and cherishes the spirit of the...
A message of hope came to the students of the Wrangell School District last week in an attempt to build self-confidence among the young men and women of the borough. The duo of Bob Lenz and Arden “AJ” James brought that message to Wrangell on Friday, Dec. 2 to share an anti-bullying program for the students of Wrangell High School and Stikine Middle School. “We really want to bring encouragement to people, teach about respect and valuing authority, and how to do the right thing when it comes...
The glow of the holidays in Wrangell got a little bit brighter over the weekend as the borough’s 2011 Christmas tree was cut and placed downtown on Friday, Dec. 2. The tree, a 43-foot tall Blue Sitka Spruce, came to Front Street courtesy of the backyard of Steve Miller and his family. Wrangell’s Electrical Department Director Clay Hammer took down the tree with help from his staff and some heavy equipment. “We had Dave Joseph, Mark Armstrong and Dwight Yancey helping out on this one,” Hammer...
The Southeast Alaska Action Initiatives for Key Economic Clusters was the topic of discussion last week at the Nolan Center on Tuesday, Nov. 29 as Wrangell Mayor Jeremy Maxand, Economic Development Director Carol Rushmore and Economic Development committee member Julie Decker presented a number of topics relating to the process and draft plan for Wrangell. The initiatives under review are part of a study commissioned by the Department of Agriculture, with the Juneau Economic Development Council...
Great athletes may be born, but champions are coached and bred into reality. Nothing truer than those words can be said of Tanner Thomassen and Kurt Dingwall, two members of the Wrangell High School wrestling team who took home a region championship at Mt. Edgecumbe High School in Sitka last weekend. The pair of juniors has wrestled hard all season, with Thomassen (145-pound) amassing a 29-6 record, and Dingwall (138-pound) tendering a season win-loss ratio of 17-3. Head coach Jeff Rooney said...
In the language of the Tlingit people, there is a saying that goes, “Sh yaa.awudaneiyi a kwaan,” which means “Respect people, respect yourself too, and other people will respect you.” The late Dr. Walter Soboleff, a Tlingit Elder, spiritual leader and past chair of the Sealaska Heritage Institute Board of Trustees, coined the quote in years past – and it never had more meaning than last week at the National Native Heritage Assembly held on November 29 at Wrangell High School. The assembly,...
The Rasmuson Foundation is making the dream of a new totem pole carving facility and the completion of the Shakes Island renovation a reality after making a $450,000 grant available to the Wrangell Cooperative Association. A $135,000 portion of the grant is earmarked for a new carving facility to be located on the property on Front Street at the former location of the Alaska Native Brotherhood hall. “The WCA has been awarded a grant for $450,000 for the renovation of the Chief Shakes Tribal H...
The Wrangell Port Commission took a major step forward in a plan to build a Mariner’s Memorial at Heritage Harbor during their most recent meeting on Thursday, Dec. 1. After having been stalled as a project for a number of months, Harbormaster Greg Meissner and the commission set a Jan. 5, 2012 date for a special working session where, according to Meissner, public input will heard and used to determine the design of the memorial. “I think our site is quite designable, as is, once we put our...
