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Former Wrangell resident Vivian Faith Prescott recently had two books published — a compilation of Tlingit poetry and a fantasy novel for middle-grade-aged children — and says she is interested in bringing a printing press to town to publish the works of fellow Southeast Alaskan writers. Prescott said she and her daughter, Wrangell resident Vivian Mork, hope to bring the small press, which may be called Petroglyph Press, to Wrangell by the end of the year. Prescott said its aim is to help expos...
Anna Curtis picks chocolate treats to put in her box at Chocolate Fest held Saturday in the lobby of the Wrangell Medical Center. The annual fundraiser for the Hospital Auxiliary offered boxes for $15 each for people to come fill with locally baked and donated chocolate desserts. The fundraiser garnered about $1000, according to Hospital Auxiliary President Kathy Gross, which is about $500 more than last year. A higher number of donations and the addition of a silent auction at the Fest helped...
Wrangell High School girls’ varsity basketball team had a tough weekend traveling to Sitka for two games while half the players fought off a head cold. The Lady Wolves lost the games against the Sitka Lady Wolves. Friday night’s game ended 46-24 and Saturday night’s game ended 59-19. Sitka is a very good basketball team, said Wrangell Coach Dave Silva, who also has been battling a cold since last week. Sitka plays tough defense and matches the Lady Wolves speed on the court, he went on to say....
Those hoping to visit Anan Wildlife Observatory this summer between July 5 and August 25 can now submit their request to the U.S. Forest Service (USFS). The USFS began accepting public requests to the popular bear-viewing site yesterday and will continue to do so through Feb. 29, said Keith Appleman, recreation, lands and wilderness staff officer for the Wrangell USFS District. Until yesterday, passes for the 2012 season were given to commercial guides who transport people to and from the observatory only accessible by boat. The USFS grants a...
At a work session last week, the Wrangell Borough Assembly discussed possible funding requests it will make to the State to help pay for city wide projects. Requests for $1 million to pay for road construction and utility improvements at the future medical campus, and $3.8 million for the Wrangell Medical Center to help build a new hospital, top the list. The Assembly has not approved the list of capital budget requests. Assembly members will once again review and then vote on the list at its regular Feb 14 meeting. If approved, it will then...
Sealaska will donate twelve cedar logs to the Wrangell Cooperative Association (WCA) to use towards the renovation of Chief Shakes Tribal House on Shakes Island. WCA requested the six red and six yellow cedar logs late last year through Sealaska’s log donation program. Sealaska — a native corporation — announced last week its board of directors had approved of the donation request. The logs will be used to replace the corner posts of the 70-year-old Shakes House. WCA had requested Sealaska’s log donation because it had run out of the resourc...
After being delayed numerous times due to weather, construction on Front Street between Federal Way and McKinnon Street began Monday. The Wrangell road and utility improvement project will improve 2,500 feet of Front Street, and water lines and storm drains will be installed. Existing sewer lines will also be updated, and new roadway lighting will be put in. McGraw Custom Construction put out a notice that work would limit car traffic through the area, but signage would be posted during...
The Wrangell Cemetery Board met for the first time in over a year on Feb. 1 and discussed the possibility of opening a new cemetery. Wrangell currently has two cemeteries, the Wrangell Memorial Cemetery and Sunset Gardens. However, soon there will be no more plots available, and the Cemetery Board wants to find a space that could serve the town for the next 100 years. According to the City and Borough Wrangell, there are 31 grave plots left at Sunset Gardens Cemetery and nine plots at the Memorial Cemetery. Those remaining plots will likely be...
The trial for a Wrangell man charged with seven felony accounts, including sexual and physical assault, has been scheduled for May 8 at 8:30 a.m., according to court documents. Steven Marshall, 52, is alleged to have strangled, hit and raped a female victim Dec. 7, 2011 at his residence in the Bloom Trailer Court, according to court documents. Marshall is also alleged to have threatened the victim with a machete, according to the documents. The victim’s injuries led her to the Wrangell Medical Center the night of the alleged attack. Marshall w...
The Wrangell Wolves lost by one point Friday night on home court to the Petersburg Vikings. The following night, however, Petersburg gained a larger lead and took the game 70-52. The games on Wrangell court were the team’s first home games in over a month. Saturday night was also the Wolves Homecoming game. Though the games were fast-paced and the teams kept the level of intensity high, the Wolves could not keep up with the Vikings. Coach Dave Stokes said though his team fought hard over the wee...
The Lady Wolves won its two Homecoming games this weekend against Petersburg. The games were close, with Wrangell winning by one point Friday night. On Saturday, the Lady Wolves took the game by a six-point lead. Coach Dave Silva said his players kept the intensity up and the pressure on their Petersburg opponents, which helped lead the Lady Wolves to victory. Silva also said he felt his guards were stronger than Petersburg’s, and that helped the Lady Wolves defensively. Petersburg senior C...
Gone are the days of flipping through a catalog of cards to locate a book. Now, Wrangell residents can use the library’s computers to search through an automated catalog or can even do so online in the comfort of their own home. The digital catalog is part of an overall system upgrade at Irene Ingle Public Library, which went live last week. Members of the library will now be given a library card and account number, which they can use to log onto the library’s website and search for books, mov...
The Wrangell Medical Center (WMC) will begin offering its employees a chance to take part in a new recognition program, which will reward exceptional behavior and community service in the form of extra paid days off. WMC Board members voted in favor of implementing the program at its Jan. 25 meeting. “I think this is a great idea,” said WMC Board President Mark Robinson. The program will be points-based. Employees rack up points by having perfect attendance or working an extra shift at the WMC, as well as by making suggestions that improve the...
Construction on Front Street was set to begin early this week but, due to cold weather and snow, work has again been delayed, according to project leaders. Work on Wrangell’s road improvement project is now tentatively scheduled to begin Monday, Feb. 6, Project Leader Eric Vorhees said. McGraw Construction Superintendent Mike Ashton said that start date will continue to be dependent on Wrangell’s weather. “Anything we accomplish this winter will help us out for this next building season,” Ashton said Monday. Ashton said crews will first b...
Daniel “Boon” Powell, Randy Churchill Jr., Dave Powell and Chris Guggenbickler (left to right) were among seven who loaded their snowmachines onto Eric Yancey’s boat Friday to head to Point Rothsay at the mouth of the Stikine to take advantage of all the snow the Wrangell area accumulated throughout the week....
Last week, a jury found Wrangell Assemblyman Mike Symons not guilty on a driving under the influence charge from Sept. 2010. Symons’ trial took place Jan. 24 in Wrangell. Shortly after 11 p.m. on Sept. 10, 2010, Symons was pulled over by Wrangell Police Officer Joe Paul, who noted the truck Symons was driving had expired registration tags, according to court documents. The traffic stop resulted in a DUI charge after Symons failed a field sobriety test, according to court documents. Symons had been at the Elks Lodge prior to his arrest, the d...
The workshop was being put on by MIA reps and was scheduled for the afternoon of Jan. 25 at the Nolan Center. However, due to what MIA reps said was a lack of advertising of the event, few attended. The workshop was posted on Wrangell’s website, www.Wrangell.com, and advertised shortly before the 1:30 p.m. start time on Wrangell’s radio station, 101.7 KSTK. Wrangell Economic Development Planner Carol Rushmore said, unfortunately, her office knew nothing about the MIA group coming to Wrangell until she saw a post on Facebook about the eve...
The Wrangell High School boys basketball team has spent the last month traveling to games out of town, and coach Ray Stokes thinks it may have negatively affected his players’ performance in recent match ups. Last week, the Wolves faced Haines and lost the two games. After losing the first game against Haines by one point (47-48), the Wolves got into foul trouble the following night and the Glacier Bears won by 18 points. The game score was 69-46. This past weekend, Wrangell lost another set of games on Mt. Edgecumbe’s court. Stokes said his te...
While the Wrangell girls varsity basketball suffered two losses this past weekend to Mt. Edgecumbe High School, Lady Wolves Coach Dave Silva said his players stayed positive, kept good attitudes and “kept their heads up.” “I have nothing but praise for how the girls handled things,” he said. The Lady Wolves lost Friday night on home court 39-67. The following night, Wrangell was beaten 37-52. However, the Lady Wolves persevered, Silva said, and tried their best. “I got to give it our girls, no...
Residents of Wrangell can expect to receive a questionnaire in their post office box this month asking what they know about amphibians, specifically frogs and salamanders. The mail survey is part of University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) student Joshua Ream’s research. Ream, 27, is pursuing an interdisciplinary PhD from UAF in ecological anthropology, which focuses on the relationship between humans and their environment, or as Ream puts it, a way to combine his “interests in both the natural and...
Wrangell’s Petroglyph Beach has been named one of the world’s ten most unusual beaches by smartertravel.com. The beach’s centuries old etched rock artwork, and the mystery of exactly when and why it was created, helped land Petroglyph on the website’s list. “It’s anyone’s guess what the 40 rock carvings on Wrangell’s Petroglyph Beach mean, and that’s part of the intrigue,” the smarterrtravel.com article states. The beach is located about one mile from town and has the highest concentrati...
Last week, arborist Rico Montenegro of the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation (FTPF) was in town to help determine the specifics of the fruit tree orchard set to be planted in Wrangell. Cherry, apple and plum trees are, so far, some ideas of fruit trees that can handle Wrangell’s wet and cloudy weather, according to Montenegro. “We’re stretching the limits here,” he said. Montenergo will have to do a fair amount of research to decide what fruit trees will thrive in Wrangell. Because of the dampness and high number of overcast days, disease could p...
The Borough Assembly has agreed to pay for two attorneys to travel to Wrangell next month to lead classes on the Open Meetings Act. At its regular bi-monthly meeting Tuesday night, Assembly members voted in favor to pay Michael Gatti, an attorney in Anchorage, and Krista Stearns, an attorney for the City of Kenai, to teach the classes. Tentative class dates have been scheduled for Feb. 2 and 3, and will be open to the community at no charge. Months ago, it was requested such classes be offered to help train city boards and committees. Tuesday,...
Monday marked the beginning of Zak’s Café “pay what you can” weekly dinners, which allow customers to pay what they wish in exchange for a meal. One hundred percent of that money from customers is then donated to a charity of Zak’s owners Katherine and James George’s choice. This year, the Georges chose Share Our Strength –a nationwide nonprofit aimed at ending childhood hunger. Money generated from the last three years of “pay what you can” dinners at Zak’s was donated to Heifer Internation...
Over the next year, the over 70-year-old Chief Shakes Tribal House on Shakes Island will be restored, and Todd White is now on board as project manager. When talking about the project to restore the tribal house, which has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1970, White is obviously proud to be a part of it. White, of White Construction, said he has been working in the private sector since 1984, and completed over 21 community projects in Wrangell. “What I bring to the...