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At its regular monthly meeting, the Wrangell Public School Board approved the purchase of a new phone system for its two campuses. Board members approved a $65,000 contract with AP&T to install the new system, which replaces the district's 71 phones with IP-based handsets and will include a one-year service agreement for parts and equipment. "The current system that we have right now, they say they can't support them," explained Matt Gore, technology director for the school district. The new...
On Monday Cyni Waddington resumed her role as executive director at the Wrangell Chamber of Commerce office. The Chamber board made the decision to invite back Waddington, who had spent the past two quarters working with the school district's technology department. She had previously managed the Chamber's operations for three years, which includes organizing annual events, tax free days, visitor services and the birthday calendar fundraiser. "I know we're excited to be back on track," commented...
Wrangell High School finished its second weekend of the regular basketball season with a win, splitting games with Haines on its visit last weekend. Playing Friday, the Wolves kept a close game with the Glacier Bears. Wrangell was leading at the start of the fourth quarter, but the final score hinged on free throws – Haines placed 10 of its 12 throws in the quarter, which with another 10 points put it two ahead at the last buzzer. Wrangell had the opportunity to win though, sinking only four of...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. January 20, 1916: Owing to the fact that matters seem to progressing rather slowly in regard to the Dry Strait survey, Mr. F. Matheson, who has the matter in charge, recently wrote to Delegate Wickersham regarding the affair and received an answer which states, “On December 8th I wrote to the Secretary of War asking about the report of the Engineer on the matter of Dry Strait improvement and on the 14th he wrote me saying that he had not yet received it from the District Engineer’s Office.” An en...
Monday, January 11 Loud Music Complaint. Extra Patrols Requested. Possible Probation Violation. Citizen Assist. Agency Assist. Agency Assist – Harbor. Disturbance. Tuesday, January 12 Found Property. Criminal Mischief. Possible Disabled Vehicle. Disturbance. Officer responded. Wednesday, January 13 Agency Assist/WMC. Citizen Assist Public Works notified. Possible Phone Scam. Citation issued to Michael Allen, Jr., 44, for Failure to Provide Proof of Insurance and For Operating Truck with Expired Registration. Found Property. Thursday, January 14...
Mabel E, Fennimore, 89, passed away January 12, 2016 in Wasilla, Alaska. She was born in Wray, Colo. on Jan. 22, 1926. After graduating from Queen Anne High School in 1944, Mabel worked on the Bremerton Ferry where she met the love of her life, Paul Fennimore. Paul and Mabel were married in 1945 in Seattle, Wash. and upon his discharge from the Marine Corps moved to Mt. Angel, Ore. to make their home. In 1960 the family moved to Wrangell, Alaska. Mabel loved to fish and her pickled salmon and...
The community’s coalition for health and wellness organizations is looking for a new image. The Healthy Wrangell Coalition has announced a sort of logo contest, through which it hopes to make its activities more recognizable to the community at large. “We’ve kind of been operating under the radar for a while,” explained Kris Reed, with HWC. “Folks don’t really know who we are and what we do, and that we’re available for things like letters of support for grants.” Member organizations include Alaska Island Community Services, Wrangell Medica...
Principals Honor Roll: Jade Balansag, Liana Carney, Laura Helgeson, Jing O’Brien, Sophie O’Brien. Honor Roll: Samantha Acuna, Jimmy Baggen, Jamie Early, Tyson Messmer, Kaydin Mill, Mercedes Morgan, Ryan Rooney, Jacob Dow, Aaliyah Messmer, Bruce Smith, Madison Blackburn, Hannah Brown, John Buness, Kaylyn Easterly, Tasha Massin, Trevor Miller, Hunter Wiederspohn. Honorable Mention: Emma Martinsen, Daniel McIntyre, Elizabeth McIntyre, Kendra Meissner, Rowen Wiederspohn, Logan Ritchie, Karri Buness, Coby Holder, Adriana Larrabee, Skyler Lof...
The workshop at Wrangell High School is humming, hammering and making all sorts of noise as students in the various fabrications classes work on a number of projects. Under the Wolf Fabrication umbrella, students of industrial technologies teacher Drew Larrabee have been learning to use a widening array of tools on and off campus. The humming comes from the new tech room, which Larrabee and the school's technology department set up inside the high school's old computer lab. The dust from the...
Members of the community were invited to the Wrangell Ranger District Office on Jan. 13, to meet and greet with some of the minds behind the latest proposals for the future Tongass management plan. The United States Forest Service is amending the current Land and Resource Management Plan for the Tongass National Forest, which is the largest in the country. Covering 16.7 million acres in Southeast Alaska, 3.4 million acres of that has been set aside for resource development. The purpose of the am...
Permits will soon become available for those wanting an opportunity to visit Anan Wildlife Observatory this summer. Known primarily for its abundance of bears, the observatory was identified as Wrangell’s top attraction by a survey conducted by the city last summer. According to Forest Service records, Anan draws between 2,400 and 2,800 visitors each summer. These travelers contributed around $1.5 million to the local economy in 2014, making up more than a third of all tourism-related spending. Starting Feb. 1 at 8 a.m. the public will be a...
Playing in Haines over the weekend, Wrangell’s Lady Wolves basketballers were not quite able to take a win, despite a close game Saturday. The Glacier Bears maintained a lead throughout the first game Friday, finishing with 58 to Wrangell’s 38. Among the Lady Wolves, Amy Jensen led the team for points with 12, followed by Helen Decker with nine. Teresa Flores scored eight points, Anna Dow Allen five, and Abby Armstrong and Abigail Gerald each had two apiece. On Saturday evening the Lady Wolves played a much closer game, bringing the score to a...
Fishing issues will take a back seat to budget cutting when the Alaska legislature convenes on January 19 for its 90-day session, but two early fish bills (and one hold-over) already are getting attention. One new measure aims to stop the migration of fishing permits outside of the state. We lost over 50 percent of our permits over the 1973 original issuance of permits,” said Robin Samuelsen of the Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation (BBEDC), speaking at a two day Alaska Sea Grant workshop last week in Anchorage titled Fisheries Access...
Wrangell’s Planning and Zoning Commission concluded its discussion of entitlement lands at its Jan. 14 meeting. Along with the Economic Development Committee, the commission will use its recommendations as a framework for public discussion of possible uses for properties transferred to the Borough from the Department of Natural Resources last year. Just over 9,000 acres of undeveloped parcels were transferred, encompassing land at Thoms Place, Crittenden Creek, Sunny Bay, Earl West Cove, Mill Creek and other locations on and around Wrangell I...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – A Democratic state representative has proposed a constitutional amendment to limit regular legislative sessions to 90 days. The proposal, from Anchorage Rep. Matt Claman, was released Friday in the last batch of bills filed before the start of the upcoming session on Tuesday. Currently, the constitution allows for the Legislature to meet for up to 121 days, with an option to extend for up to 10 days. But state law limits regular sessions to 90 days _ the product of a voter initiative. Claman’s proposal, which includes a 1...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Alaska’s gaping budget deficit is expected to be the focus of the legislative session beginning this week. But the road to a solution may be rocky, with differing ideas for how to help close the deficit and difficult choices that could significantly impact state services. A continued drop in oil prices adds urgency to legislators’ work, as does the ongoing draw-down on savings to help cover state costs. North Slope crude peaked around $66 a barrel last year, a crash from the prior year, and fell below $30 last week. For R...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – A government watchdog found no evidence of bias in how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency conducted a study on the potential effects of large-scale mining on a world-class salmon fishery in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region. The inspector general for the EPA also concluded in a report released Wednesday that the agency did not predetermine the study’s outcome. The state of Alaska and the owner of the proposed Pebble Mine, Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd., were among those who asked for an investigation. The EPA, petit...