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Friday afternoon an excavator fell into a trench on Front Street located between the Sentinel office and the Kadin building. The incident occurred shortly before 4:30 p.m. Friday, March 9. The trench, approximately six-feet-deep, had been dug to install a new water line as part of Wrangell’s road and utility improvement project. The fall crushed the cab of the 320 excavator. An operator employed by Southeast Earthmovers was inside the cab at the time of the fall, but was able to escape from t...
Rep. Don Young was in Wrangell Monday as part of a Southeast Alaska tour this week for the state’s sole U.S. congressman. During his quick visit, Young met with community members and business representatives at the Nolan Center for lunch where he heard about a number of issues facing Wrangell as well as local economic development projects. Nearly a dozen people attended Monday’s event with the congressman. Members of the Wrangell Cooperative Association talked about the restoration projects on Shakes Island. Mark Robinson, chair of the Wra...
March 14, 1912: The Jefferson, brought Messrs. Hall and Gunderson, of South Bend Washington, who will immediately start the construction of a cannery at Burnett Inlet on the west coast of Etolin Island about thirty miles from Wrangell. Full crews of workmen and materials for erecting the buildings will be landed at Burnett Inlet by the Santa Ana which sailed from Seattle Sunday. Two boats have been purchased for the work, one sixty-footer for taking care of the fish and smaller one to run between the cannery and Wrangell. The cannery will be...
The construction company operating at the medical campus will be allowed to begin working as early as 8 a.m. on Saturdays. The Wrangell Planning and Zoning (P&Z) Commission approved the extra weekend work hours at its meeting March 8, after receiving an application for a noise variance from Ketchikan Ready Mix and Quarry Inc. The construction company is building a new clinic for Alaska Island Community Services (AICS) at the medical campus on Wood Street behind the Mini Mart. The site is also where the new hospital is set to be built. Under the...
Monday, March 5 -Power outage, power department notified. -Citation issued to Edward Stephen Ousley, 51, for parking in a no parking zone. -Report of harassment. -Criminal mischief, officer responded. Tuesday, March 6 -Citizen assist, dead battery. Wednesday, March 7 -Parking complaint, blocking driveway Thursday, March 8 -Trespass warning, -Criminal trespass, DV. Friday, March 9 -Caller reported a small slide at 7.5 mile. -Person reported being harassed. -Verbal warning for faulty equipment. Saturday, March 10 -Verbal warning for improperly...
March 2, 2012 Timothy Burrows, 47, appeared before Judge Kevin G. Miller and was found guilty of alcohol restricted in licensed areas and is ordered to serve 49 days. The defendant was fined $550. The defendant was also found to have violated his probation and it has been extended for 58 days. March 7, 2012 Robert A. Seimears, 58, appeared before Magistrate Chris Ellis and was found guilty of assault in the fourth degree, and is ordered to serve two months in jail. The defendant is fined a total of $100, and placed on probation for three...
To the Editor: I am very concerned and I’m sure others are to about what the Hospital Board is doing in keeping Dr. Salard from seeing his patients in the hospital. My father and mother are both in the Wrangell Hospital and bed ridden. Dr. Salard is their doctor and he is my doctor. We don’t want to see anyone else since there is never the same doctor twice in a row that knows my history and theirs. Dr. Salard is one of the reasons my father is alive today. He got my father medivaced to Seattle last December where he and I spent 34 days at Har...
Mike Carney, 76, died January 27, 2012. Mike was born in LaConner, Wash. on June 21, 1935 and moved soon after to Kittitas, Wash. where he was raised with six brothers and three sisters on a farm. Mike married Helen in June of 1957. He moved with his family to Alaska, starting in Metlakatla in 1960 and then to Wrangell in 1971. Mike worked as a millwright and a sawyer, later becoming a foreman. When Mike was not working, he was always fishing or hunting; a true outdoorsman. After Mike retired...
Whale totem, Fort Wrangell. The Sentinel would be grateful for any additional information you may have about photos run in this section....
A Wrangell resident and AmeriCorps member has teamed up with the Parks and Recreation Department to offer a number of fitness programs to residents this year. Holly Hammer is a member of the Building Initiatives in Rural Community Health (BIRCH) AmeriCorps Program, which supports health education and wellness activities in rural communities throughout Alaska. This is Hammer’s second year as an AmeriCorps member in Wrangell. Last year, Hammer worked with the Wrangell Medical Center, but this year will be working mostly out of the Wrangell p...
Borough Assembly members, acting as the Borough Board of Adjustments will hear testimony next week on McGraw Custom Construction’s appeal to last month’s Planning and Zoning (P&Z) Commission decision regarding the company’s operating hours on the Front Street improvement project McGraw is asking permission to work as early as 6 a.m. and as late as midnight Monday through Saturday on main street. On Feb. 9, P&Z voted in favor of allowing construction to occur 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturdays. A week later...
The first community market in Wrangell is scheduled for May 19, and members of the market steering committee have asked the town permission to use the covered play area by the elementary school as the site to sell locally-grown and crafted goods. Wrangell’s Parks and Recreation Department manages the covered play area. Holly Owens and Kris Reed of the market steering committee attended the Parks and Recreation Board meeting Wednesday night to see if they could use the space on market days. Markets are currently set to take place every third S...
Home grown salmon are Alaska’s largest crop – but don’t ever refer to it as farming. Whereas farmed fish are crammed into closed pens or cages until they’re ready for market, Alaska salmon begin their lives in one of 35 hatcheries and are released as fingerlings to the sea. When the fish return home, they make up a huge part of Alaska’s total salmon catch. The state’s annual report on its fisheries enhancement programs show that last year, hatchery returns and harvests were down by more than half from 2010, when a record 77 million hatchery sa...
The 2012 Wrangell birthday calendar is completed. It has been mailed. Printing takes approximately 30 days. They should be available for distribution the end of April or the beginning of May 2012. Because of the setback, the calendar year will begin May 1st, 2012 and run thru May 31st, 2013. I apologize for impeding the completion and I take full responsibility. No excuses, I will just say that I had a lot going on and was unable to complete everything on schedule. Please accept my sincere heartfelt apology. I would like to “explain” what I k...
SITKA, Alaska (AP) — The Department of Fish and Game says aerial surveys will begin Tuesday in preparation for the first opening of the Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery. Area management biologist Dave Gordon tells the Daily Sitka Sentinel that the guideline harvest level of 28,829 tons is based on a forecast biomass of 144,143 tons. The guideline harvest is down slightly from the preliminary figure of 29,008 tons announced in December. The guideline harvest last year was 19,490 tons and commercial fishermen hauled in 19,429 tons in five o...
In two weeks, residents will have an opportunity to offer input on Wrangell’s draft outdoor recreation plan, which has outlined a dozen priority projects aimed at enhancing local recreation opportunities for residents and visitors. The draft “Wrangell Sustainable Outdoor Recreation Action Plan” was released in February, after about a year of preparation. Projects discussed in the plan include extending existing trails on the island, improving outdoor facilities and community recreation programs, as well as creating new outdoor activitie...
Local physician Greg Salard has filed an appeal in Alaska trial court concerning the Wrangell Medical Center (WMC) Board of Director’s decision not to grant him privileges to work at the hospital. The appeal was filed in Wrangell court March 9, exactly a week after the WMC board, acting as the “fair hearing committee,” voted in favor of denying Salard permanent privileges to practice at the hospital. “We’re appealing the board’s decision to the court,” Salard said this week. Salard is employed through Alaska Island Community Services (AIC...
Wrangell Middle School social studies teacher Mr. Brooks hands an award to Tuesday’s Geography Bee winner Alisa Heller. Middle School Geography Bees have been occurring annually since 2004. However, every year, an 8th grader wins, Mr. Brooks said. Heller’s win marks the first time a seventh grader took the title and the second time a girl contestant has won....