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Kicking things off with a new borough manager in Jeff Jabusch, 2014 for Wrangell was not only a period of changes, but also one of building and continued development. Pavement was poured at the Marine Service Center, a number of roads were resurfaced or due to eventually see improvement, and the city was able to showcase itself to other regional communities by hosting several prolific functions. January Wrangell Cooperative Association collected 210 registrations for Tlingit-Haida members at... Full story
As 2014 comes to a close, Wrangell's Marine Service Center is looking better and brighter for it. The facility was one of the centerpieces of the year's Southeast Conference in September, demonstrating the economic opportunities possible in the region. At the start, the center already touted a 150-ton mobile boat lift, a 40-ton hydraulic trailer, a federally-approved washdown area and upland storage for 85 boats. The self-service yard gives boat owners the option to rent space and conduct work... Full story
Wrangell High School’s girls basketballers headed to Juneau Dec. 19 and 20 for some pre-seasonal play at the annual Holiday Hoop. “It went really well,” said the team’s coach, Edna Abella-Nore. “We won our last game,” she said, Saturday’s match against Thunder Mountain High. The Wolves won with a good lead, 28 to 18. To finish things, Darrien Meissner succeeded in throwing a three-point buzzer-beater as the clock ran out. “It’s a neat thing to witness,” said Abella-Nore. “It usually doesn’t happen too often.” The girls lost by only three points... Full story
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. January 7, 1915: Amos Godfrey arrived from Vancouver on the Princess Sophia and left Wednesday for his property which is located on McDames Creek, which flows into the Dease River about halfway between Dease Lake and Laird River. Mr. Godfrey has two leases, one of which is known as the Radford lease. His ground runs from $1.00 to $19.00 a yard. Mr. Godfrey has bought the entire outfit of J.W. Haskins, deceased, consisting of hydraulic pipes and a giant. The outfit is now 15 miles from where Mr....
Monday, December 22 Found Property Citizen Assist: Person needed assistance with porcupine quills. Tuesday, December 23 Nothing to Report. Wednesday, December 24 Found Keys at Volunteer Park. Dog at Large: Citation issued to LaDonna Botsford, 48. Thursday, December 25 Agency Assist/Alarm. Friday, December 26 Nothing to Report. Saturday, December 27 Agency Assist: Search and Rescue. Sunday, December 28 Driving Complaint. There were three ambulance calls during this week....
Grace Margaret Sowle passed away on December 18, 2014 in Anchorage, Alaska. Services and a Celebration of Life will be held on Sat., January 17, 2015 in Wrangell. An obituary and information regarding the services will be published at a later date....
Long time Wrangell resident Jerald "Jerry" Leroy Sarff, 62, passed peacefully from this mortal life on December 21, 2014, at home surrounded by his family. Jerry was born November 26, 1952 in Spokane, Wash. to Doyle and Delores Dougherty Sarff. At the age of 18 his family moved to Wrangell, Alaska where he finished his senior year of high school, graduating from Wrangell High in 1971. Right out of high school Jerry started to work at Wrangell Lumber where he worked until the late 90s. He did a... Full story
On Dec. 19 Canada's environmental minister, Leona Aglukkaq, endorsed conclusions reached by the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency that the proposed Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell mine would be unlikely to cause significant, adverse environmental effects when the mitigation measures described in the mine's comprehensive study report are taken into account. The KSM project being proposed by company Seabridge Gold would develop a combined open-pit and underground gold, copper, silver, and molybdenum mine in British Columbia. Once operational,...
Salmon will always be the heart of Alaska’s fisheries, and that’s why most people think of summer as the fishing season. But that’s not the case. The heart of winter is when Alaska’s largest fisheries get underway each year. On January first, hundreds of boats with hook and line gear or pots begin plying the waters of the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska for Pacific cod, rockfish and other groundfish. Then on January 20th trawlers take to the seas to target Alaska pollock, the world’s largest food fishery with annual harvests topping three bil...
PETERSBURG – The U.S. Forest Service will soon be accepting comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Kake-Petersburg Intertie, a proposed electrical transmission line that would connect Kake to a SEAPA substation in Petersburg. The proposed project would bring cheaper power to Kake whose 550 residents are currently using costly diesel to power their homes and businesses. "In 2011, the full retail cost of power in Kake was 62 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh), more than f...
