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Kevin Gadsey, 49, allegedly engaged in inappropriate behavior around elementary-aged children in the swimming pool locker room, prompting at least two parents to complain to the Parks and Recreation Department and bring their concerns to the Sentinel. After Parks and Rec launched an investigation into the allegations, the borough served Gadsey with a no-trespassing order on Jan. 9, banning him from the facility during "kid-specific activities." "After careful consideration" the letter read, "we...
Before the high school boys basketball season started, head coach Cody Angerman said his goal was to win state. But he also said, “If we’re the best team possible by the time March comes around, that’s the best I can ask for.” After a tight second place Southeast finish to defending champions Metlakatla, the boys team is very much still in the running to achieve both those goals. The boys took home the silver medal after winning two of their three games March 5-8 at the Southeast tournament in Ketchikan. The Wolves got out to an impress...
What motivates a man to wake up and start his day with the same habit for 40 years? Bill Messmer doesn't know. Messmer started collecting rainfall data from his house in town in 1984. Four decades later, he is calling it quits. The reason? Well - there isn't really one. He just shrugged and said, "It's been 40 years." Messmer's first month of collecting data was January 1984. If you're curious, precipitation - rain and melted snow - totaled 16.04 inches that month. Every morning he woke up,...
President Donald Trump has issued several executive orders in recent weeks to expand logging in the nation’s forests, but stakeholders say the recent mass firings of U.S. Forest Service employees could hinder the administration’s plans in Alaska. Trump’s actions are the latest chapter in a decades-long tug-of-war between conservation and development in Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest — by far the largest of the nation’s forests. On his first day back in the White House, Trump signed an executive order to boost development...
March 12, 1925 Among the northbound passengers on the Princess Mary on Saturday was A. D. Rees, advance agent for the company which was recently organized for the purpose of operating airplanes between Wrangell and the new gold diggings near Dease Lake, British Columbia. The plane, which will operate from Wrangell, will have high- speed and exceptional maneuvering ability, fully capable of negotiating the climb over the Coast Rockies which mark the international boundary. Before the backers of this new transportation project decided to go...
PORTABLE SOUTHEAST, a traveling art exhibit from the Juneau Arts & Humanities Council, is on display at the Nolan Center through March 28. A reception will be held 6 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 14, at the center to showcase the exhibit, which includes works from Alaskans in several cities. “Portable Southeast provides a new and exciting mode for artists to showcase their works beyond local reach,” the arts council says. BRAVE MONTHLY MEETING (Building Respect and Valuing Everyone), 2 p.m. Thursday, March 13, at the Irene Ingle Public Lib...
A proposed 20-year plan seeking to restore the ailing Alaska Marine Highway System to a more reliable and sustainable operation calls for a major increase in funding for operations and building several new ships. The six new ferries and shoreside improvements could cost $3 billion. The draft plan also envisions an ambitious increase in service to smaller communities, including Wrangell, while shrinking the total fleet from nine ships to eight. The draft plan published Feb. 28 seeks about $3 billion in vessel and infrastructure spending, plus...
Going on attack against Canada makes as much sense as picking a fight with your best friend and neighbor, the one you share holiday meals with, the one who steps up when disaster hits the neighborhood, the one who helps make sure you and your family are safe. Which is to say it makes no sense whatsoever. President Donald Trump says Canada should become the 51st state. Canadians have declined. If the tiff would have ended there, no harm, no foul. But it hasn’t ended, and the fight could soon cost Alaskans money. Trump is throwing tariffs at Cana...
Elon Musk is right, there is waste in government. No question about it. Just as there is waste in most every household and every business in America. There is no such thing as 100% efficiency. Not everyone gives 110%. Not every good idea, new product or well-intentioned program bats a thousand. And not every kid eats everything on their dinner plate, including the green vegetables. That doesn’t mean you get rid of your kid, close down every business, cancel every project or fire every worker. A responsible leader would look, learn and listen be...
I was surprised to learn of the procedure that has been evidently adopted by the Trump administration which allows high-level advisers like Elon Musk to maintain multiple private income sources that could benefit them substantially from the advice they are giving to our president. Musk is reported to have already received $38 billion in contracts, tax credits and loans from the federal government. He is reported to be seeking the federal government’s underwriting of a SpaceX voyage to Mars. Musk should be required to separate the benefits his b...
After Spicy Lady, a Petersburg-based crabbing vessel, caught fire on March 6, the Wrangell Volunteer Fire Department arrived on the scene to cool things down. The fire department received a distress call at 2:32 p.m. informing them of the boat fire. At the time of the call, the 58-foot steel hulled Spicy Lady was near Point Gardner at the southern tip of Admiralty Island. After a 100-mile floatplane trip, Wrangell firefighters met up with the Spicy Lady a few miles from Point Gardner, in Warm...
The House Finance Committee is scheduled to take public testimony on the state operating budget over three days this week, with several Southeast communities, including Wrangell, on the calendar for Friday afternoon, March 14. The time slot for Southeast residents to testify is set for 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Friday. Individuals will be limited to two minutes each to give the committee their opinions on the state spending plan for the fiscal year that starts July 1. Anyone in Wrangell who wants to testify is asked to come to the Legislative...
The Wrangell girls basketball team finished third at the Southeast tournament in Ketchikan on March 5-8. The top two teams in Southeast (Metlakatla and Haines) received automatic bids to the state tournament in Anchorage this week. Wrangell did not receive an at-large bid, meaning the season ended in defeat to Haines on March 8. While they may have hoped for more from the Southeast tournament, Wrangell’s performance was not without its highlights. The Wolves opened tournamentplay with a win against rival Petersburg. After splitting the h...
British Columbia Premier David Eby said on March 6 that he intends to introduce legislation that would place tolls on commercial trucks traveling from the Lower 48 states to Alaska through his province. Speaking at the Legislative Assembly building in Victoria, Eby said the move is one of several that he is taking in response to President Donald Trump’s erratic Canadian tariff plans. “I’m here to share that we will be introducing a new law in the coming days to respond to this historic challenge: unprecedented legislation. It will inclu...
Monday, March 3 Dog at large. Citizen assist. Agency assist: U.S. Forest Service. Driving complaint. Tuesday, March 4 Parking complaint. Assault. Wednesday, March 5 Intoxicated person. Thursday, March 6 Nothing to report. Friday, March 7 Dog at large. Bar check. Saturday, March 8 Criminal trespass. Agency assist: Parks and Recreation. Agency assist: U.S. Forest Service. Noise complaint. Sunday, March 9 Agency assist: Ambulance. Traffic stop. Agency assist: Hoonah Police Department. Domestic dispute. Agency assist: Ambulance. There were five...
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Don't try and put Johnny Allen in a box, even if it's one he welded himself. Allen, a senior at Wrangell High School, is upfront about his values. He gets up early, works hard, doesn't complain and quietly goes about his business. He finds joy, not just reward, in work that other people might only see as tedious, something that shines through in his choice for a senior project. For that, Allen has taken it upon himself to freshen up the whale mural outside the Stikine Inn. The painted mural is...
The Southeast Conference hopes to know by the end of the month whether $38.6 million in federal funds to help install electric heat pumps in coastal Alaska communities will come through on schedule or whether the Trump administration will pull the plug or turn down the power on the project. “We’re moving forward cautiously, carefully,” said Robert Venables, Southeast Conference executive director. The new administration has ordered widespread halts to federal contracts, loans and grants, as the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Effic...