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An exhaustive search and rescue operation by the Wrangell Search and Rescue, the Alaska Army National Guard and U.S. Coast Guard was undertaken last week in an attempt to locate Colin Buness, 25, of Wrangell, who went missing on the mainland of Southeast Alaska. Buness departed on a hiking and kayaking trip toward Aaron Creek and the Katete River on June 19. According to Tim Buness, Wrangell’s Fire Chief and incident commander for the search for Colin, the attempt to locate him began in e...
Once upon a time in Alaska, there was a young Coast Guardsman named Frank Murkowski. His adventures on the high seas and waterways of coastal Alaska were far from great legend – but it taught him and led him to a future life of leadership in state and Federal government. When he was 18 years old, the future U.S. Senator and chief executive of the Last Frontier received a graduation gift of a 19-foot runabout christened Emerald. The boat, which was built by noted Southeast shipwright Sexton J...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. July 4, 1912: With 1,100 mile journey to finish, a crowded schedule and limited time, Mayor William A. Gilmore, who was a passenger north on the Jefferson, found it impossible to stop in Wrangell in the interest of his campaign for delegate to Congress. Starting at Nome on June 17 and traveling south on the steamer Dora C at the time of the Katma eruption to Valdez and to Ketchikan, Mr. Gilmore has had an exciting and successful journey and expresses himself well pleased with the outlook. The remain...
Members of Wrangell’s Boy Scout Troop 40 joined forces June 19-24 with the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, the Sitka Conservation Society, the US Forest Service, and local Wrangell volunteers to conduct a number of Wilderness stewardship activities on the Stikine River. The outing, funded in part by a grant through the National Forest Foundation, focused on managing invasive weeds near Twin Lakes and was part of a nationwide effort by the Forest Service to steward Wilderness areas. D...
Monday, June 25 -Missing juvenile. -Civil issue. -Citizen assist, vehicle unlocked for owner. -Arrested William George Anderson, 30, on fugitive from justice warrant out of Georgia. -Verbal warning for driving an ATV on roadway. -Report of theft. Tuesday, June 26 -Curfew violation. -Curfew violation. -Phone trace. -Theft. -Possible juvenile party, verbal warning for loud music. Wednesday, June 27 -Person called to see if their dog had been picked up. Thursday, June 28 -Report that someone had hit a deer. Deer was taken care of. -Report of...
William “Bill” S. Lloyd passed away June 23, 2012 in Sedro Woolley, Wash. He was born April 5, 1923 in Wrangell. Bill served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during W.W.II and was stationed in the Aleutian Islands in the Sea Air Rescue. Bill married Lois G. Hammer on October 3, 1946 and they homesteaded in Anchorage from 1946-1953. In 1953 the couple moved to Everett, Wash. and then settled in Skagit County in 1975. Lois passed away in 1979 and Bill married Phyllis Thompson on Sept 19, 1981. He worked over 39 years as an electrician and was a lif...
Colin was an experienced hiker, backpacker, and kayaker. He was lost to us on the Katete River on June 22, 2012. Colin was born in Ketchikan, Alaska on December 17th, 1986. He grew up in Wrangell. He was an avid baseball player throughout elementary school and middle school and was a member of the Wrangell High School’s first baseball team. Colin was always ready for an outdoor adventure. He could be found organizing a hike up to the top of High Island or trying to persuade his friends to go o...
Talea Hayes and Trevor Kellar were married June 10, 2010 in Lake Tahoe, Calif. The couple will reside in Grass Valley, Calif., where the Trevor is a commercial driver and Talea is a preschool teacher at Beale Air Force Base. The groom is the son of Darcy Erickson and Tom Kellar. The bride is the daughter of Roby and Rynda Hayes and she graduated from WHS in 2004....
Arborist Rico Montenegro plants the first apple tree in the Wrangell orchard at Evergreen Elementary School with, from left, Jamie Roberts, Derek Robbins and Kris Reed....
Anan Bay has a new recreation cabin. The A-frame cabin from last century was replaced with a brand new 15x17 foot cabin constructed from Alaska yellow cedar, harvested from the Tongass National Forest. A crew of carpenters assembled the logs, which were sent Ketchikan, into a cabin during the winter of 2012. Once spring arrived a work crew headed out on a tug and barge to start site work at Anan Bay. They moved the old A-frame cabin, intact, to their barge. They also felled three hazard trees...
In a heavy drizzle of rain and high humidity, Muskeg Meadows Golf Course hosted the Ottesen’s True Value, 9-Hole 4-Person Best Ball Scramble, and 9-Hole, 4-Person Mystery Scramble tournaments June 30-July 1. The course welcomed 20 participants who took part in the tournament on Saturday, while 12 golfers – three teams of four players – took part on Sunday. On Saturday, the first place team consisted of Wrangell Golf Club members Bill Messmer, Pete Walden, John Morse, and Eric Kading with a Net 22 score (team handicap, 13.) The No. 2 spot went...
A first ever accounting of bycatch in US fisheries has been achieved by federal scientists in a user friendly report that aims to set a baseline for the accidental takes of fish, marine mammals, seabirds, and other creatures by fishing gear. The National Bycatch Report, based primarily on 2005 data, shows fish landings and estimated bycatch ratios of nearly 400 types of sea creatures by gear type and region. It is part of an effort to track changes in bycatch over time, according to NOAA Fisheries, and to help managers meet mandates to...
Outgoing Borough Clerk Christie Jamieson accepts a plaque from Mayor Jeremy Maxand acknowledging her 32 years of service to the city during her retirement celebration last week....
In November 2011, the Alaska Island Community Services “Crossings” program went through a metamorphosis when it was forced to shed a group of nine full- and part-time core staff members. Employees from Crossings, the largest wilderness therapy program for emotionally at-risk teens in the State of Alaska, received letters on Friday, Nov. 4, 2011 telling them their positions were being eliminated due to “unforeseen circumstances.” Those circumstances related to procedures regarding Medicai...
Sealaska held its annual shareholders’ meeting Saturday, June 23 at Juneau’s Thunder Mountain High School with a shareholder’s fair and comments from board of directors’ candidates on both sides of a term-limits resolution. The meeting also included a business report and election results. Approximately 400 tribal member shareholders and guests attended the meeting in person, with another 420 households participating via webcast. The board of directors re-elected Senator Albert M. Kookesh...
