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Following is the Wrangell Sentinel's news review for January through June of 2019. Next week the review will include events from July through December. January Jan. 13 - The Fairbanks Arts Association opened their 24th annual statewide poetry contest for submissions this December. Each year, the association picks a new judge for the contest. This year will be judged by Wrangell resident Vivian Faith Prescott. Prescott is the author of numerous works, including The Hide of My Tongue and The Dead...
January 1, 1920 The people of Wrangell enjoyed a rare treat Saturday night when a wonderful program of Northland adventure scenics by Richard Suratt was presented at the Rex theater. The first number was a trip to Le Conte glacier showing several views that were surprisingly beautiful. These glacier pictures were in blue-tone pink, the coloring having been done in the great Gaumont laboratory in New York City. It was a genuine tribute to Mr. Suratt’s skill when a Wrangell audience, who knows Le Conte glacier so well, applauded his pictures b...
December 23 Agency assist: TSA. Agency assist: Harbor Department. December 24 Noise complaint. Intoxicated person. Traffic complaint: Verbal warning. Traffic: Stranded vehicle. December 25 86’d letter. Report of theft. Courtesy transport. December 26 Nothing to report. December 27 Traffic/citizen assist: Report of truck losing its tire. Subpoena service. Traffic: Report of speeders. Welfare check: Everything is good. December 28 Suspicious circumstance: Alarm. Traffic stop: Verbal warning for headlights. Disorderly conduct. December 29 A...
The Lady Wolves volleyball team hosted an alumni game last Monday, Dec. 23. The volleyball team officially ended their season back in November after competing in regionals. The alumni game is a longstanding tradition for the team to close out the year, testing their skills against former players and other community volunteers. The evening opened with a hard fight by both teams. In the first game, the alumni team managed to take an early lead, but were quickly passed by the Lady Wolves. The game...
While most people take days between Christmas and New Year's as an opportunity to rest and gear up for a return to work or school, the Wrangell Wolves stayed busy by competing in the Clarke Cochrane Christmas Classic. This is a basketball tournament held in Ketchikan annually, that draws in many schools from across Alaska and from out of state. Things didn't go very well for the Wolves, Coach Cody Angerman said in a Facebook post on Sunday, Dec. 29, but it was a good learning experience for the...
Wrangell's Convention and Visitor Bureau met last Monday, Dec. 23, to continue their ongoing work on putting together a "tourism best management practices" document for the city. This conversation began back in November. A growing tourism industry in Wrangell has highlighted the need for some form of guidelines, as well as concerns about how future tourism might impact the community's day-to-day life. Tourism best management practices, or TBMPs, are a way to help ease friction between tourism...
Alaska’s seafood industry will be “open for business” starting January 1 when some of the biggest fisheries get underway long before the start of the first salmon runs in mid-May. Cod will begin it all in the Bering Sea, which has a 305.5 million pound catch quota, down about a million pounds from 2019. Less than 6 million pounds of codfish will come out of the Gulf. A 400,000 Tanner crab fishery at Kodiak starting on January 15 will be helpful to a town whose economic bottom line will be badly battered by the Gulf cod crash. But it will be th...
Along with the lights, the trees and carolers, the Salvation Army's red Christmas kettles are a very common sight during the holiday season. Standing in front of stores and on street corners, volunteers accept donations for the Salvation Army with ringing bells and the iconic red buckets. The Christmas kettles are a century-old tradition, according to the Salvation Army's website. In 1891, Salvation Army Captain Joseph McFee organized a fundraiser, where people could throw money into a large...
