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Wrangell's elementary school gardening program is getting its future greenhouse off the ground, hoping to have it ready before next year's growing season. E.A.T.S. Garden program coordinator Jenn Miller explained the new greenhouse will be bigger and more efficient than the school's old one, a longstanding structure that has seen better days and is now being used primarily for storage. The high school construction class last year assembled the structure's framing, and this year a group of...
By Dan Rudy Sentinel writer Wrangell’s sole taxi service announced April was to be its last month running, making its final drop-off Saturday evening. Citing unforeseen circumstances, Northern Lights Taxi made the announcement late last week on social media site Facebook. It thanked Wrangell for its continued support over 18 years of business. “My husband and I have been looking to get out of the taxi business for the last couple of years,” co-owner Charity Hommel explained. She and her husband, Joe, had operated the service for a decade, takin...
May 10, 1917: At the repeated requests of numerous friends who have been entertained again and again with Mrs. Burnet’s reading she has consented to give a whole evening of entertainment at the Redmen’s Hall May 17. Her entertainment should be considered one of the events of the year. The entertainment will be under the auspices and for the benefit of the Red Cross. The Red Cross needs money, more money, most money. There are field hospitals to be equipped, hospital ships to be furnished, and it must all be done quickly. May 8, 1942: Com...
An arrangement has been reached in the case of a series of boat break-ins that took place late last fall at Heritage Harbor. On November 19 Wrangell police were called in to investigate several boats reported broken into during the night. A variety of items were taken and some damage done, with one vessel’s door being broken during the intrusion. By November 23 officers had located their suspects and a number of the missing items at an apartment near Inner Harbor, thanks in part to the a...
A section of Zimovia Highway has been closed off to traffic as Wrangell Public Works resurfaces a hole left from repairs. The section is located between where Church Street leaves off and the highway begins, and the road's intersection with Weber Street, on the westward side of the road. A line break there was first reported in early February, Public Works director Amber Al-Haddad explained, during a spate of freezing weather. A crew responded and determined the fault was not with a main, but...
April 17 Lucas Canton Schneider, 38, appeared before First Superior Court Judge Kevin Miller on the charge of Assault 3 – Cause Injury with a Weapon, a Class C felony. The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge, and an additional count of Assault in the 4th Degree was dismissed. The judged ordered that Schneider serve 18 months’ incarceration with 14 suspended, pay $90 restitution to the aggrieved, and serve three years on probation. Schneider was also ordered to pay $500 in court costs for appointed counsel. April 24 Dana Lynn Cawthorne, 35, a...
Monday, April 24 Report of Harassment. Tuesday, April 25 Report of theft. Wednesday, April 26 Citation issued: Timothy Erickson, age 27, failure to show proof of insurance and verbal warning for faulty equipment. Animal Complaint. Agency Assist: Hit deer. Paper Service. Thursday, April 27 Paper Service. Paper Service. Friday, April 28 Report of Theft. Suspicious vehicle. Saturday, April 29 Lost wallet. Found item: Person found hearing aid. Sunday, April 30 Suspicious circumstance. There were four ambulance calls and two dog complaints during...
Catherine M. Greer died on Saturday, April 15, 2017 at Temple, Texas care facility. She was born on September 14, 1922 to Paul Martin Stark and Anna Missiorski in Granite City, Illinois. She married the love of her life Bert E. Greer on July 18, 1942 in St Charles, Missouri. She lived in Granite City, Illinois from 1922-1954 and moved to Troy, Texas in 1954. They started their family November 20, 1944 with their first born child. Catherine was a homemaker and worked in Temple until her... Full story
Mike H. Hay, 78 passed away in Wrangell with his family by his side on April 28, 2017. He was born on August 30, 1938 in Bakersfield, California to Joyce and Virginia Hay and moved to Wrangell with them and his younger sister Suzy in 1943 when he was five. He was drafted in 1961 and became a paratrooper in the U.S Army, stationed in Okinawa. That same year he married Carol and they spent 56 wonderful years together. They had three children, Tammy, Jeni and Chuck. Mike was a commercial fisherman... Full story
Nolan John Charles Johnson was born to Dustin and Devyn Johnson on Jan. 13, 2017, at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. He weighed 7 lbs. 11 oz. and measured 18 ¼ inches in length. Maternal grandparents are John Moody and Shannon Phillips. Paternal grandparents are Harley and Lana Johnson. Nolan joins his brother Jude.... Full story
Petersburg played host to the region's budding artists at this year's Southeast Alaska Regional Art Festival, running from April 20 through the weekend. "It went well," said Ashley Lohr, Petersburg High School's art teacher. The community last hosted the festival in 2011. Thirteen high schools sent 102 students to this year's four-day event, much of which focused on honing artistic skills at an array of workshops. Eighteen 15-hour workshops were available to participating students, each of whom...
Mike Lockabey directs people's attention to Saturday night's auction items at the Nolan Center. Raising money for Ducks Unlimited, the annual banquet and auction collected about $20,000 in all. "It was a very good dinner and it was successful," reported Wrangell chapter president Keene Kohrt. After expenses, he estimated $9,000 would go to the national organization, which works to restore wetlands around the country and advocate for their conservation. Important habitat to ducks, geese and...
Wrangell Swim Club sent four of its junior swimmers to the Alaska Junior Olympics last weekend. Nearly 500 swimmers in 27 teams from around the state made their way to Anchorage's Bartlett High School for the meet. Among them were Kayla Meissner, Jack and Renee Roberts, and Nikolai Siekawitch from Wrangell, all of whom together qualified to compete in 22 different events. Swim coach Bruce McQueen explained the Junior Olympics is the state's foremost championship for teenagers and younger...
Muskeg Meadows drove into its first tournament of the year this weekend, with the annual Angerman's Best Ball Golf Tournament Saturday and Sunday. Twenty-two participants took part in the team-based tournament, running through a full set of 18 holes. It was sponsored by Angerman's, Inc. which donated drawing prizes players could vie for. A portion of entry fees went toward course maintenance and operations, with the remainder going in to the prize pot. Following Saturday's play, on Sunday,...
The values of Alaska salmon permits are on a downward slide, while prices for quota shares of other catches continue to skyrocket. Despite an optimistic outlook this year for Alaska salmon catches and markets, buyers and sellers are still feeling a hangover from last year’s tough fishing season. “If you were involved in salmon last year, you probably didn’t have a great year, unless you were in Bristol Bay. There wasn’t a lot of extra money to pick up an extra permit or move into a different fishery, and I think we’re seeing that,” said Doug B...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – A former state senator is preparing to fight back against a bill that would restructure the Alaska Permanent Fund and reduce the dividends Alaskans receive from the oil-wealth fund each year. Both houses of the Legislature have passed a version of Gov. Bill Walker’s plan to use some of the fund’s income to pay off the state’s multibillion-dollar deficit, The Alaska Journal of Commerce reported. If Walker signs off on such a bill, former Republican Senate President Clem Tillion said he will work to repeal it. “If the...
A group of Wrangell High School students blitzed two of the East Coast's premier cities last week, heading to Washington D.C. on April 21 and spending last weekend in New York City. Traveling as part of the Close Up program, the dozen students returned Monday morning, weary but well educated from the experience. "They're exhausted. We're all exhausted," explained Sarah Whittlesey-Merritt, who accompanied them as their program instructor. For 40 years the Close Up program has aimed to inform and...
Last weekend's 20th Annual Stikine River Birding Festival was not only a draw for birders hoping to see and learn more about the area's wildlife, but also was an opportunity for residents to learn more about them and others from around the state. Researcher Dan Ruthrauff, for instance, shared his findings studying rock sandpipers wintering in Cook Inlet. A wildlife biologist for the United States Geological Survey's Alaska Science Center, he spent several years at the inlet's icy tidal flats,...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Alaska Gov. Bill Walker issued a proclamation Wednesday, seeking to force lawmakers to act on his appointments to boards, commissions and key administration posts. The proclamation calls for a joint session of the Legislature Thursday to vote on Walker’s nominees. Walker cited two constitutional provisions as giving him authority to do so. One allows a governor to convene the Legislature whenever he deems it in the public interest. The other states the governor is to be responsible “for the faithful execution of the laws....
