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A local business that is heavily involved in marine repair is expanding its operation near Wrangell harbor. Randall Fordyce, the owner of Freeman and Sons machine and fabrication shop on Case Avenue, is adding additional space on his property to allow for a longer lathe and equipment that will provide service for larger vessels. After originally eyeing a property adjacent to his location, Fordyce had to go through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to obtain a permit for the filling and grading...
The Wrangell School Board met in open session on Monday, Oct. 17 to discuss a number of issues related to board and district budget and goals, facility renovation, personnel issues and the Alaska School District Report Card for 2011. Opening the meeting, district superintendent Dr. Rich Rhodes called for a vote on a new board president, vice president and secretary/treasurer for the 2011-12 school year. In an uncontested selection and unanimous vote, board member Susan Eagle was selected as...
The Alaska Department of Transportation presented its 2011 scoping report update for the Southeast Alaska Transportation Plan on Tuesday, Oct. 18 at the James and Elsie Nolan Center in Wrangell. The purpose of the meeting, which has also been held in other communities across Southeast, was to inform the public about six possible outcomes of ADOT’s long-range planning for transportation issues in the region. The alternatives presented range from no change in the current plan to the d...
A strongly worded letter to Wrangell Medical Center CEO Noel Selle-Rea from Borough Manager Tim Rooney could be a sign of things to come between the borough and the beleaguered hospital replacement project. The letter from Rooney’s office, dated Sept. 28, laid the groundwork for an Oct. 4 filing in the First Judicial District court seeking declaratory relief to sever the borough from a contract entered into by Selle-Rea and InnoVative Capital. Innovative, a banking and financial advisory f...
The 2011 Tom Sims Invitational wrestling tournament returned to Wrangell High School last week as teams from 10 high schools across Southeast Alaska fought for glory and a spot on the podium as champions. Aside from the Wolves squad, teams from Petersburg, Hydaburg, Haines, Kake, Sitka, Craig, Mt. Edgecumbe, Klawock, Metlakatla and Thorne Bay competed beginning on Thursday, Oct 13 for a seeding in the championship rounds on Saturday, Oct. 15. “We started earlier than we expected, on Thursday, be...
The Lady Wolves varsity volleyball team traveled to Sitka last weekend to face Baranof Island’s own version of the Lady Wolves while the JV team from Wrangell took part in the Sitka’s invitational tournament. Sitka dominated both nights as they won easily in a 25-11, 25-17, 25-12 game on Friday, and again of Saturday with set scores of 25-15, 25-16, 25-18. Wrangell was hobbled out of the gate as starters Sasha Ashton and McKenna Harding did not travel with the team. On top of the holes cre...
The 17th Annual Harvest Festival is coming this weekend The yearly event was created to help bring in an additional sale prior to the release of Alaska Permanent Fund dividends. Tessa Appleman, the membership director at the Wrangell Chamber of Commerce said the day boosts the local economy and spurs shoppers to take part thanks to a $500 drawing held on Saturday night at 6:15pm. “It gives people an additional incentive to go shopping for everything from house goods to starting early o...
The Southeast Alaska Power Agency has applied for a preliminary permit to build a hydroelectric generation facility at Sunrise Lake on Woronkofski Island. The proposed project would build a powerhouse near the 120-foot elevation on the island, a small rockfill dam across the outlet of the lake, and a submerged intake siphon on the east bank of Sunrise Creek. The maximum generating capacity, according the permit application, would be 4 MW using a turbine at approximately 5,360 horsepower. The...
U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski introduced legislation last week to extend the life of two initiatives that direct millions of dollars in payments to support local employment in rural schools, borough maintenance programs, forest management and other critical borough programs. As the top Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Murkowski worked with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus and others for months to negotiate an agreement....
The redistricting plan for Alaska approved by the U.S. Department of Justice this month may move Petersburg and other Southeast communities into the district encompassing Juneau. Representative Beth Kerttula and Senator Dennis Egan, both Democrats, would likely become the new legislators to the Petersburg area. Representative Peggy Wilson of Wrangell and Senator Bert Stedman of Sitka currently represent the region. According to City Manager Steve Giesbrecht, it’s a move that is not popular w...
A Ketchikan resident has announced she will run in the GOP primary against Reps. Peggy Wilson and Kyle Johansen for Alaska’s 1st House District. Patti Mackey, Executive Director of the Ketchikan Visitors Bureau, said last week that she would run for the nomination to the seat that will be created as a result of redistricting. With the expansion of the 1st District under the current redistricting plan, its legislative boundaries would swell to include Ketchikan, Wrangell and northern Prince of W...
Ferry service between Ketchikan, Coffman Cove, Wrangell and South Mitkof Island may soon become a reality again after a $3 million USDA loan to the Northend Ferry Authority and Rainforest Island Ferry was approved last week. Some of the communities to be served by the new endeavor, which is slated for May 2012, have not had access to regular routes since the Inter-Island Ferry Authority suspended their runs in 2008 due to low ridership and falling revenue. Kent Miller, the manager of the NEFA,...
Ferry service between Ketchikan, Coffman Cove, Wrangell and South Mitkof Island may soon become a reality again after a $3 million USDA loan to the Northend Ferry Authority and Rainforest Island Ferry was approved last week. Some of the communities to be served by the new endeavor, which is slated for May 2012, have not had access to regular routes since the Inter-Island Ferry Authority suspended their runs in 2008 due to low ridership and falling revenue. Kent Miller, the manager of the NEFA,...
