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The United States Coast Guard and members of the Alaska State Troopers search and rescue team spent the better part of Tuesday evening at LeConte Glacier after a Pacific Wings Beaver aircraft out of Petersburg crashed, leaving one reported as dead. The aircraft, which was carrying a pilot and six passengers, crashed at the glacier in the late afternoon of June 4 and was carrying sightseers, according to a statement by Coast Guard Sector Juneau. Senior Chief Chad Mountcastle said the U.S. Coast Guard was working to mount a rescue operation at...
After more than a year of planning, design and construction, the brand new Alaska Island Community Services clinic held an open house to show off the multi-million dollar building, its technological innovations and ways its new floor plan would assist clients in the medical and counseling process. The new facility, located on Wood Street, opened on June 5 and has nearly doubled the number of examination rooms available to patients. It cost nearly $4 million to build and is now prepared to offer...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. June 12, 1913: Tom McGrath of Victoria, who with his wife and 11-year-old son went into the Silver Creek, B.C. region in the Cassiar via Atlin last March, returned to Wrangell by way of Telegraph Creek on the Port Simpson Sunday last. Mr. McGrath says that they “mushed” 176 miles from Atlin with a dog team with supplies enough to last through the season. The trail was a hard one but after reaching their destination he discovered that he and the many others who had made the trip in, had been giv...
There was a time when the front page of the Wrangell Sentinel was bracketed by the phrase “Founded in 1902 – Lumber capital of Alaska.” Those days ended in the 2000s, when Silver Bay’s operation at 6 Mile Zimovia Highway shuttered its doors for good, and with the demise of the mill site came a downturn in the industry that built Wrangell – timber. Even though the industrial side of logging is long gone in the Borough, the memory of what came from our forests still lives on in the Chuck Oli...
The City and Borough of Wrangell faced a check up from Alaska Mental Health Trust senior resource manager Paul Slenkamp after a report of excessive tree removal near the end of the road at 12.5 Mile Zimovia Highway last month. In what was defined as a timber cut to remove dangerous trees near the power line extension between Pats Lake Road and McCormack Creek, the city electrical department was issued an authorization to trim the area to remove dying or decaying trees that were threatening the...
Saturday, May 25 Alaska Wildlife Troopers Ketchikan Post issued a summons to Eric Yancey, age 53, from Wrangell, for outfitting and transporting black bear hunters without being registered as a big game guide/outfitter, or a transporter. He was also summoned for failing to complete a transporter activity report, and for failing to provide his clients with a hunt contract. Yancey was summoned to Petersburg Court for a mandatory court appearance on June 11....
Monday, May 27 - Caller reported porcupine in tree. - Hazardous play reported. - Misuse of 911 - Situation will be taken care of. - Arrested Jonathan Gerald Annis, age 30, on charges of DUI, Refusal to Submit to Chemical Test and Resisting Arrest. Tuesday, May 28 -Suspicious Circumstance - Officer responded and everything looks okay. -Road debris reported - Construction company notified and crews are working on cleaning it up. -Motor vehicle accident reported. -Traffic stop -Verbal warning for improper display of tabs. Wednesday, May 29 No...
On May 21, Wrangell Magistrate Chris Ellis adjudicated the following cases: Cody Bell, age 27, of Wrangell, was found guilty of Indecent Exposure in the Second Degree. He was ordered to pay a surcharge of $50, report to a substance abuse agency for screening, and serve one year on probation. Alyssa Adams, of Wrangell, was found guilty of Failing to Stop For a School Bus. She was ordered to pay $300 in fines and surcharges, complete eight hours of community work service, and serve one year on probation....
James Eric Sundberg, 56, died at home May 18, 2013 in Manson, Washington, after a yearlong battle with mesothelioma, a rare, incurable cancer caused by asbestos exposure. He was born January 18, 1957 in Juneau, Alaska. His parents were Odd B. and Mary J. Sundberg. He graduated from Juneau-Douglas High School in 1975. Summers during his high school years he worked at his Uncle Harry’s fish cannery in Wrangell, Alaska. In 1977, Jim was accepted into the Alaska Carpenter’s Union 2247 App...
Rolland Wimberley graduated from Truman State University, in Kirksville, Mo., on May 11 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Justice Systems. He is a 2009 graduate of Wrangell High School and is the son of Benn Curtis and Shirley Wimberley. He plans to return home to Wrangell to work for a year before he enters law school. Ford Curtis will graduate from the Oregon Coast Culinary Institute at Southwestern Oregon Community College in Coos Bay, Ore., June 14. He received his Certificate in Culinary Arts in August of 2012 and his Associates of...
Ethan Pempek graduated Cum Laude from the University of Hawai`i at Mânoa with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Information and Communications Technologies. Upon graduation, Ethan placed in the top fifteen percent in the nation among ROTC cadets, earning recognition as a distinguished military graduate and receiving a commission as a Military Police officer in the United States Army as a Second Lieutenant. His first duty station is Camp Darby, Livorno, Italy. Ethan is the son of Mark and Therese...
(AP) WASHINGTON – The U.S. Forest Service is in the business of preventing fires, not starting them. Yet the agency set off alarms in Congress and state capitols across the West by citing automatic spending cuts as the basis for demanding that dozens of states return $17.9 million in federal subsidies. And it’s all come down to a bureaucratic squabble over whether the money is subject to so-called sequestration because of the year it was paid – 2013 – as the Obama administration contends, or exempt from the cuts because of the year it was gen...
The deadline for registration in the popular Summer Reading Program is set for June 30 at the Irene Ingle Public Library. This program is held annually beginning June 1 and runs through the end of July. All students in Kindergarten through Grade 9 are eligible to attend. The basis of the program, which began in 1998 is simple – after reading a book, students take a retention test on a computer, which is graded and provided to the school district at the end of the program. Each book is worth a certain amount of points and students receive v...
The Royalty Court for the 2013 Wrangell Fourth of July celebration was officially presented last Friday night, May 31, at the Stikine Inn – and the month-long push toward a fundraising goal of $100,000 began in earnest. The three young women taking part this year, Darian Meissner, Kayla Rooney and Jennifer Ludwigsen, were all present as Queen Mother Jill Privett introduced them to the audience. Afterward, she commented on what it meant for the large crowd to come out and support the trio taking...
For many Natives in Southeast Alaska the use of natural herbs and plants is as essential today as it was to their ancestors in years past – and whether they are used to alleviate pain, or help as a dietary supplement, the wild medicine of Wrangell’s forests and wilds are abundant. One of the most common plants in Wrangell’s pantheon is yarrow. It grows nearly everywhere on the island and is identifiable by its feathery leaves and fine-tooth hairs along the stem. It is also identifiable by its sm...
Heavy rains took out the first day of the City Market Golf Tournament last weekend at Muskeg Meadows golf course – though the second day saw a combination of Wrangell and Petersburg players finish at the top of their game. The team of Robbie Robinson, Ray Pederson, Greg Scheff and Eric Kading finished Saturday with a net score of 33, while the straightest drive went to Robbie Robinson at 7-feet. Glacier Larsen took the closest to the pin honors with a distance of 23-feet, 4-inches. Course manager Shannon Booker said the tournament, which was a...
AP (JUNEAU) – The sole survivor of a deadly 2010 Coast Guard helicopter crash has been removed from the promotion list, a decision his attorney said could end Lt. Lance Leone’s military career. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano last week agreed with the findings of a special board in removing Leone from the list. Leone attorney John Smith told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Leone would try to get on the list again this summer and appeal a derogatory report in his personnel file cited as a factor in the decision to rem...
Salmon set net families were streaming out of Kodiak all week, heading to their summer sites to get ready for the June 9 season opener. Their departure wrapped up a busy week of Memorial Day festivities on “the rock,” including festivals, fleet blessings, a landslide on Cannery Row and visits by both of Alaska’s US Senators. I caught up with Sen. Lisa Murkowski over a beer at Kodiak Island Brewery; she spoke candidly on several hot button fisheries related topics. It’s well known that Murkowski and the rest of Alaska’s congressional delegatio...
The jury trial of former resident Steve Marshall for felony charges related to an alleged 2011 sexual assault began this week in Wrangell’s First District Court. Marshall, 54, was arrested on Dec. 7, 2011 at his residence in the Bloom Trailer Court after police responded to an argument between Marshall and his former girlfriend, Sonja Turner. Court documents allege that Marshall, who was indicted by a grand jury on seven charges, including sexual assault and assault in the first degree, is a...
