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A finalized event schedule has been put out for the 2016 Fourth of July Celebration in Wrangell, which begins tomorrow and will last through Monday evening. This year’s celebratory theme is “Back to the Rock,” highlighting the annual Fourth holiday as a time when Wrangellite relatives, former residents and family friends return to the island. “It’s just kind of that catch phrase people in Wrangell use for coming back home,” explained Aleisha Mollen, Chamber of Commerce treasurer and chair of this year’s festivities. Though she has organized the...
Navigating the Wrangell Narrows can be tricky, if not treacherous, depending on the vessel size and time of year. On June 14, Britta Adams of Ketchikan became the first known individual to swim the body of water from south to north. "I just knew that I had a tide, and I had six hours," she says. "My goal was to get from Marker 1 to Marker 42, the end of Pinball Alley, and everything beyond that was just a bonus." The water was 48 degrees when Adams jumped in at 4:45 a.m., and 15 minutes later...
July 4, 1941: Under the leadership of a go-getter committee, consisting of Chet Lloyd, Harry Coulter, Mickey Shain and headed by Wrangell’s mayor Dr. E.J. Wheeler, Wrangell’s merchants and citizens responded nobly to a subscription of funds to give the kids a grand and glorious Fourth of July. Two hundred and nineteen dollars and eighty five cents was collected, making it possible to give the youngsters substantial prizes for their efforts in contests with free candy bars thrown in on the side. The American Legion Dance tonight at the ANB Hal...
A survey to gauge the housing needs of Wrangell’s Native population launched last week. Wrangell Cooperative Association is conducting a housing needs assessment, following up on a community needs survey completed last year and the results of a special stakeholders meeting held in December. As housing issues ranged high among the identified community needs, this recent survey gathers demographic data and residential information from participants. “We’re trying to get every tribal household in Wrangell to take the survey,” explained WCA tribal...
With Wrangell’s Public Health Center effectively unmanned due to statewide budget cuts, steps are being taken to ensure area residents can still receive some level of service. Citing budget cuts of nearly 25 percent over the past two years, Alaska’s Division of Public Health announced in May its decision not to replace its nursing position in Wrangell, as well as to eliminate the location’s office assistant position. The division’s regional Public Health Nurse manager, Sarah Hargrave, explained the office itself will remain open, providi...
Monday, June 20 Inmate Booking: Booked Bryan E. Humphrey, 24, on charges of Probation Violation. Citizen Assist/Vehicle Unlocked. Tuesday, June 21 Civil Standby. Road Hazard. Wednesday, June 22 Citizen report of DUI. Agency Assist: Public Works. Report of a theft. Citizen Assist. Thursday, June 23 Agency Assist: Harbor Department. Report of DUI. Driving Complaint. Noise Complaint: Car alarm going off. Friday, June 24 Report of Harassment. Traffic Complaint. Saturday, June 25 Verbal warning for driving golf cart on roadway. Disturbance. Citizen...
The Kito’s Kave Best Ball Tournament was held June 25 and 26 with 23 participants. June 25: First Place Team: Brian Smith, Renee Claggett, Kevin Skeek. Net Score: 18, Team Handicap: 18. Second Place Team: Eric Kading, Keene Kohrt, Faye Kohrt. Net Score: 23, Team Handicap: 16. Third Place Team: Grover Mathis, Aaron Bolton, Joe Ieremia, Eli Johnson. Net Score: 24, Team Handicap: 16. Straightest Drive: Grover Mathis 141”. Closest to Pin: Kevin Skeek 13’8”. June 26th: First Place Team: Grover Mathis, Wayne Harding, Kevin Skeek, Renee Clagget...
Richard Bert Hansen, 85, passed away June 20, 2016 in Palm Springs, California. He was born in Cordova, Alaska on December 8, 1930 to Grace and William Hansen. Richard grew up in Cordova and Juneau, Alaska loving sports, particularly basketball. His Juneau High School basketball team won the state championship in 1950. In his 20s his city league basketball team won the Gold Medal Championship and he was named MVP. After serving in the Marines during the Korean Conflict he returned to Douglas...
The state Office of History and Archaeology is launching a historic preservation planning effort by inviting Alaskans to identify historic places throughout the state that are important to them. Alaska’s current Historic Preservation Plan expires next year. “The new plan will set the path for historic preservation in Alaska through 2023. We are interested in hearing from all Alaskans on what matters to them,” said state historic preservation officer Judy Bittner. The public can participate in the early stages of plan development in sever...
Victoria Ingram, of Wrangell has made the dean’s list at Eastern Oregon University for the 2016 spring term...
The City and Borough Assembly passed a budget this week, at a specially held session at City Hall on Monday. The meeting involved a work session which gave its members time to discuss individual line items with finance director Lee Burgess. The budget which was passed works within the current property tax rate of 12.75 mills and includes several new revenue or cost-saving items, such as allowing city employees to pay 15 percent of all premiums and receive a 5-percent credit if they participate in the plan’s wellness program. Two other items w...
Wrangell officially threw its support behind a proposed accelerated high school program, after the Borough Assembly issued a resolution in favor of it at Tuesday’s meeting. Coming to view during the planning process for the former Institute property’s future development, the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program is looking to take its advanced summer curriculum to the next level with a residential facility. Currently operating between between regular school years, the program helps give rural, primarily Native Alaskan students ext...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – A national environmental group on Wednesday asked federal fisheries officials to block an oil company’s plans for offshore hydraulic fracturing underneath Alaska’s Cook Inlet because of the threat to the inlet’s population of endangered beluga whales. The Center for Biological Diversity in a letter to the National Marine Fisheries Service said fracking increases risks of spills, earthquakes and toxic pollutants to belugas, which were declared endangered in 2008. “Offshore fracking poses a grave and imminent thr...
Turning crab shells into every day products is becoming a reality for the Tidal Vision team of eco-entrepreneurs from Juneau. The products are derived from chitin in the crab shells, the second most abundant biopolymer on the planet after cellulose. Chitin is found in fungi, plankton and the exoskeletons of insects and crustaceans and adds up to about 100 billion tons every year. The miracle substance can be spun into fabrics, filters, bio-plastics, bandages, stitches, even car coatings with self-healing scratches. Since the 1950s, chitin has...
The local district of the United States Forest Service invited public comment on different options for a proposed timber sale on Monday. An open house was held at the Wrangell Ranger District office to discuss five alternatives put forward in the project's draft environmental impact statement (DEIS), released at the beginning of this month. Of four action alternatives and a no-action alternative being proposed, the district expressed its support for Alternative 2, which would see the harvest of...