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Sometimes a golf tournament in Wrangell isn’t about just going out to hit balls and spend time with friends and family. Once a year, at least, it’s about saving lives. The 5th annual Wrangell Medical Center Foundation golf tournament, which supports local cancer patients and commemorates former WMC administrator, the late Brian Gilbert, came to fruition last weekend despite early torrential rains and cold temperatures at Muskeg Meadows golf course. The tourney, which featured 10 teams of four pl...
Imagine, for a moment, a City and Borough of Wrangell without a hospital – any hospital. According to Wrangell Medical Center CEO Noel Rea, that could be the outcome if the June 19 recall election changes the majority composition of the WMC Board of Directors. The USDA, which was set to guarantee a $24.7 million loan for the hospital replacement project, has signaled that an overhaul in the makeup of the board would lead them to require the borough to obtain a general obligation bond to fund the facility, rather than a revenue bond paid for b...
May 30, 1912: The coming celebration on July 4 promises more in the way of speed contests between motorboats than any previous year. Not only are there a great number of new boats here, and to be built, but the supposed speed of some of the boats is greater than heretofore witnessed in Wrangell outside of the steamers. A particularly interesting race and one that is being discussed at length at this early date is the expected contest between the speedy cannery tenders Halcyon and Mary Malone. The outcome of the race is still a matter of conject...
With eight members of the Wrangell Medical Center Board of Directors facing recall in a June election, tensions were high among members of the board, supporters of the recall effort, and citizens of the borough at the directors’ most recent meeting at WMC. At the May 23 meeting, board member Jim Nelson inquired of CEO Noel Rea whether allegations of WMC losing as many as 10 beds if the hospital is forced to update to current ADA standards was a “scare tactic.” “I think when the (general obligation) bond question came up everyone started...
Monday, May 21 -Audible vehicle alarm. -Verbal warning for speeding. -Disturbance, verbal. Tuesday, May 22 -Possible theft. -Phone scam. -MVA, no injuries. -Traffic stop, verbal warning for driving habits. -Domestic, unfounded. Wednesday, May 23 -Report of someone speeding down ASHA hill. -Person reported someone making threats, officer responded. -Officer responded to verbal dispute. Thursday, May 24 -Officer dealt with a civil matter. -Officer responded to person reporting harassing text messages. -Report of a MVA, citation issued to Jessica...
Letter to the Editor: For the past four years my husband Russ and I have had the privilege of visiting your small town and being the auctioneer (Russ) for the fundraising auction for the Wrangell Medical Center. We have found everyone we meet to be most welcoming and friendly and would like to commend the people of Wrangell for their hospitality to visitors. Thank you all for making our stay so enjoyable. A big thank you to Police Chief Doug McCloskey for being such a good sport about the new hair cut. The half moustache was a bonus. Wrangell...
Randi Pullman graduated from Northern Arizona University on May 11. She graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management. Randi is a 2008 graduate of Wrangell High School....
Spring catch of 20 bears. The Sentinel would be grateful for any additional information you may have about photos run in this section....
The work on Wrangell’s downtown roads is moving along at a healthy pace – and could see Front Street poured and opened up as far as Campbell Drive by the Fourth of July weekend. The most recent report by the project management team and contractors involved in the Wrangell Roads and Utilities Improvement project are painting a rosy picture for the completion of the downtown revitalization and believe the project is on schedule. Project engineer Eric Voorhees said he believes a significant por...
The Wrangell Cooperative Association was on the receiving end of financial help from the State of Alaska last week as Governor Sean Parnell included the Chief Shakes Tribal House and Carving Shed on the list of House District 2 initiatives for 2013. “Alaska’s cash position is as strong as it’s ever been,” Parnell said in his annual Budget Message given in Anchorage on May 14. “We start from a position of strength.” The WCA submission was just one of eight Wrangell projects receiving funding in the new budget. The Governor appropriate...
Members of the Wrangell Cooperative Association, along with visitors from other communities in Southeast Alaska, joined together on Tuesday, May 22 to bless planks of cedar to be used in the renovation of the Chief Shakes tribal house. The wood, which is a portion of 12 logs donated to the project by Sealaska Corporation, was taken from native lands near the Cleveland Peninsula on Prince of Wales Island. WCA office manager Carol Snoddy said the ceremony was special because the current delivery...
by Representative Peggy Wilson Hello again. After a short break to visit family, I wanted to report, from my Corner of the House, on all the latest news. Between budgets, a special session, and redistricting, there’s a lot going on. The best news is how well the Capital Budget came out. Because the legislature worked so carefully with the governor to keep expenditures at a reasonable level, there were very few vetoes. All the projects that are so critically needed in our District 2 c...
A Juneau resident living in Wrangell was acquitted of gun charges last week after a jury found him not guilty of being a felon in possession of a handgun. Troy Crandall, Sr., 54, of Juneau, was absolved of charges on May 23 that he possessed a Glock semi-automatic pistol in 2011 and left the weapon with a Wrangell resident – a charge that could have landed him in jail or state prison. Crandall was alleged to have given a Glock Model 22 handgun to Wrangellite Jodie Perez in 2011. Perez testified that she hid the weapon for Crandall and s...
The next time you visit the National Forest, you might see U.S. Forest Service employees wearing orange vests and signs stating “Please Stop Survey Ahead.” The Wrangell Ranger District is taking part in a national study collecting information about visitors recreating on the Tongass National Forest. This recreation visitor study will gather basic visitor information. All responses are totally confidential; no one’s name is ever written on the survey and the interviews can last up to 10 minutes. Questions visitors will be asked include: where...
It’s official: texting while driving will get you pulled over in Wrangell and elsewhere across the State of Alaska. Thanks to a bill by Representatives Les Gara and Bill Thomas, along with the co-sponsorship of Rep. Peggy Wilson, Alaska’s anti-texting law – one of the strongest in the country – is now back on the books. In 2011, the question of whether current anti-cell phone use laws covered texting became a focal point for a number of judges and magistrates across the state. With the new law...
GCI has discovered that a former customer telephone service representative may have misused customer-supplied credit card or bank account payment information. Although GCI has found no evidence that its electronic systems have been compromised, the company has evidence that in two instances, the former representative gathered account information directly from customers in telephone calls and later attempted to use that information for personal purchases. Because this was an isolated incident that did not compromise its systems, GCI has been...
A pair of graves for unknown soldiers was marked with American flags at the Wrangell cemetery on Memorial Day....
