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A consultancy returned with its draft findings for a feasibility study of developing Wrangell’s former mill site. A public presentation was given at the Nolan Center yesterday evening, following up on one given on Feb. 17. Washington-based firm Maul Foster & Alongi has spent the past several months assessing the Silver Bay Logging Company mill site at 6-Mile Zimovia Highway, a 110-acre property which the City and Borough of Wrangell has expressed interest in acquiring for future industrial development. “Overall it went positively,” said Micha...
A former resident is finishing a book on Wrangell's famed garnet ledge, from which residents and visitors have extracted the precious gem for over a century. Trish Neal first moved to Wrangell in 1979, and the site's story quickly caught her eye. She decided she wanted to write a book detailing the ledge's history, but soon discovered not much was known about it. The process of researching and compiling the information needed for Neal's project subsequently stretched on for nearly four decades,...
Five alternatives for a Wrangell Island timber sale were put forward by the United States Forest Service last week. On June 2 the project draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) was completed and put out by the Wrangell Ranger District, which manages the area. Of the four action alternatives and a no-action alternative being put forward, USFS expressed support for Alternative 2, proposing the harvest of 65 million board feet (MMBF) on 5,309 acres of land with the construction of...
June 13, 1941: Wrangell’s first blackout in initial test of the Civil Defense organization Wednesday night was virtually a 100 percent operation. Of 168 men originally registered and assigned to stations, 145 reported when the siren blasted its signal at 10 p.m. Wednesday, according to a check made by Mayor E.J. Wheeler and his staff at headquarters in the new Fire Station. Additional men, not previously registered, reported for duty, and the Farwest Alaska Company checked in with a complete fire fighting unit and emergency squadron from its c...
Monday, May 30 Nothing toReport. Tuesday, May 31 Agency Assist/Injured deer Extra Patrol/Vacation check Report of Theft Report of Theft Citizen Assist/Dog with porcupine quills Traffic Stop: Verbal warning for driving habits Citizen Assist/EPD Wednesday, June 1 Found Backpack: Backpack was claimed by owner Damaged property Thursday, June 2 Citizen Assist: 911 all was fine Dead Eagle: officer responded Agency Assist: Dog cage given out Agency Assist: Found keys Friday, June 3 Citizen Assist: Unlock vehicle Possible Theft: Unfounded Driving...
School may be out for the season, but kids can still keep up on their reading skills while picking up some fun gear with the library's summer reading program. Starting up on June 1, Irene Ingle Public Library's annual program encourages students to read books in exchange for tickets, which can be entered into drawings for a variety of prizes and cash drawings. The vast majority of the library's books for children about 80 to 90 percent of them have corresponding tests on the Renaissance...
The Alaska Division of Forestry has announced the award of a $3,500,000 construction contract for the Vallenar Bay Access Road to Rock-N-Road Construction of Petersburg. The project provides access to 2,500 acres of the Southeast state forest lands from the existing road system on Gravina Island. The contract is for construction of a forest road from the Lewis Reef area to the existing logging road on the southeast side of Vallenar Bay and establishes access across Vallenar Creek to State land on the west side of Gravina. The project is being f...
Margaret Gross-Hope passed peacefully on June 3, 2016 in Sitka, Alaska. Services will be held in Sitka, tentatively planned for the week of June 20. A full obituary will follow....
After putting forward an operating budget to the governor’s desk late last week, the Legislature is now looking at a measure to restructure the Alaska Permanent Fund. In a special session called by Gov. Bill Walker, legislators were retained in the capital in order to pass a budget for the coming year. The budget they placed on his desk last week, a compromisory draft of House Bill 4001 and its Senate counterpart, SB 4001, remains largely unfunded. To remedy this, late on Monday evening the Senate passed SB 128, which would restructure the e...
Alaskan fishermen have raised the bar for big fishing boats with the F/V Northern Leader of Kodiak, and Discovery Canada producers of the popular “Mighty Ships” programs have taken notice. Mighty Ships producers search for unique ships around the world and its seven year run has featured a wide range of vessels including cruise ships, aircraft carriers, cargo ships, dredgers and more. The programs focus heavily on operational capabilities and technical aspects of the ships and also make use of computer-generated animation to show und...
The Wrangell Port Commission was tasked with solving a problem with access to the boatyard, after local sight-seeing operators were presented letters by the city asking them to stop driving buses through on tours. Gold Rush Tours and Alaska Waters were sent a pair of letters apiece from Borough Manager Jeff Jabusch, requesting them to discontinue tours through the Marine Service Center. This posed a problem for both outfits, as the yard had been included on the itinerary for tours which had already been booked through the season. Brooke Leslie...