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Monday, May 16 Agency assist: Ambulance requested. Illegally passing a school bus. Agency assist: U.S. Forest Service. Agency assist: Ambulance requested. Reckless driving. Traffic stop: Verbal warning for registration tabs. Tuesday, May 17 Secured vehicle. Vacation check. Civil matter. Agency assist: Ambulance requested. Wednesday, May 18 Criminal mischief. Motor vehicle accident. Parking. Failure to yield. Dog at large. Thursday, May 19 Agency assist: Harbor Department. Agency assist: Hoonah Police Department. Dangerous play. Friday, May 20...
The body of a man who had gone missing for a day after swimming near a docked cruise ship in Skagway was found in the water Saturday, according to Alaska State Troopers. The man, whom troopers identified as William Anthony Rodriguez, 32, from Miami, had last been seen in the water near the cruise ship dock around 2:10 p.m. Friday, troopers said in an online report. According to troopers, Rodriguez had jumped into the water, swam to the nearby shore and stayed there a few minutes, then swam in front of the bow of the docked cruise ship. “The ind...
HELP WANTED Wrangell Public Schools is accepting applications for the following positions for the 2022-2023 school year. All positions are open until filled. Elementary Teacher: This is a full-time teaching position in Grades K-5 (placement to be determined). This position requires an Alaska teaching certificate with an appropriate endorsement in elementary education. Secondary (Grades 6-12) Special Education Teacher: This is a full-time teaching position in Grades 6-12 Special Education. The position requires an Alaska teaching certificate wit...
Silver Bay Seafoods, which started in Sitka 15 years ago, has connections that reach more than 5,000 miles across the world to Ukraine, prompting the company to reach out with sizable monetary and food donations to help those affected by Russia’s war on its neighboring country. “We were devastated by the reports and knew we needed to help, so we kicked off a donation program,” said Abby Fredrick, Silver Bay Seafoods director of communications. After only a few weeks, fishermen, employees and the company raised $130,000 to donate to the World...
Legislation that creates a roadmap for establishing tribally operated public schools has passed the Alaska Senate and House and is headed to the governor’s desk. Senate Bill 34 directs the state Board of Education to work with Alaska Native tribal entities on an agreement that would formally recognize the tribes’ authority to operate and oversee K-12 schools. “This creates an option for self-governance in the delivery of culturally relevant place-based education in Alaska, essentially empowering tribes and their communities to have a direc...
JUNEAU (AP) — A state court judge said a majority of members on the board tasked with redrawing Alaska’s legislative district boundaries appeared to have adopted a map that splits the Eagle River area into two Senate districts for “political reasons,” and he ordered a new map to be used for this year’s elections. The rejected plan put Eagle River, north of Anchorage, and Girdwood, south of Anchorage, into the same Senate district, separated by about 25 miles of uninhabited Chugach State Park. The judge said he found the board “intentio...
Ben Florschutz, the son of Otto and Christina Florschutz, of Wrangell, graduated May 5 from the Utah State University’s Engineering School with a degree in biological engineering. Florschutz was a 2015 graduate of Wrangell High School and a recipient of an Alaska Pulp Corp. scholarship to attend college. Before starting his secondary education, he served a two-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was called to serve in the Logan, Utah, area. He stayed in Logan after completing his mission work and attended U...
When Dr. Anne Zink began working as the state’s chief medical officer in the summer of 2019, she had a vision of transforming the state’s health system into one that promotes health holistically rather than one that simply responds to sickness. Then came COVID-19. At least a third of Alaskans have tested positive for the COVID virus as of the May 11 count, according to the state’s data hub, while more than 3,700 have been hospitalized and 1,235 have died. Now, two years after the pandemic overt...
