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Area golfers teed off for cancer treatment last weekend, during Wrangell Medical Center's tenth annual Rally For Cancer Care Tournament at Muskeg Meadows. The yearly tournaments raise funds for the WMC Foundation's cancer care program, which assists patients with travel and lodging expenses as they seek treatment for various forms of cancer. Fifty-nine women took part in Saturday's tournament, which featured noncompetitive, fun challenges on the course. Twenty-one of the participants came from...
Wrangell's former head librarian recently received an appointment by Gov. Bill Walker to sit on his Advisory Council on Libraries. Kay Jabusch will serve on the 12-person council through the end of 2016. She will help coordinate the state's five-year plan to implement the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) slated to take effect after the current one expires in 2017. The LSTA provides over $150 million to state systems across the nation, with Alaska State Libraries receiving $2.4 million...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. August 5, 1915: Mr. Tim Harrington of Juneau came down on the Jefferson Wednesday. Mr. Harrington is an old time miner and mine operator, formerly of Montana, and was a close friend and advisor of the late Marcus Daily. Mr. Harrington left today accompanied by Frederick Bronson for the Iskoot River, a tributary of the Stikine, to look over some mining properties owned by Mr. Bronson, Peter McCormack and others of this place. The property in question is about 25 miles up the Iskoot River and is repor...
The Wrangell Medical Center Board last week announced it had narrowed the field for the hospital’s future executive officer from ten candidates to three. After meeting Wednesday morning, board members wanted to see more of Jeffery Lyle, Aaron McPherson and Robert Rang. Coming from Belton, Texas, and Kodiak, Alaska, respectively, Lyle and Rang will be brought to Wrangell for site visits next week, from Tuesday through Friday. Along with Wrangell resident McPherson, they will meet with hospital staff, Alaska Island Community Services p...
Monday, August 3 Possible gun fire or fireworks reported. Police were unable to locate. Traffic stop—Verbal warning for faulty equipment. Report of phone harassment. Tuesday, August 4 An individual reported reckless driving. Police were unable to locate the driver. DVO order received. Citizen Assist—Unlock vehicle. Report of phone harassment. Person was told not to make contact with victim. Suspicious Circumstance reported—Unfounded. Wednesday, August 5 Citizen Assist—Dead vehicle battery. Citation issued to Gary Hamley, 33, for Driving...
Wrangell’s Port Commission decided it didn’t “have a dog in the fight” over a tidelands purchase proposal submitted to it for review. Meeting Thursday, it had to consider an application by BW Enterprises to purchase 6,240 square feet of city tidelands adjacent to its property near the state ferry terminal. With tidelands purchase proposals, both the Port and Planning and Zoning commissions have the opportunity to make assessments and forward their recommendations to the Assembly, which has ultimate say in such matters. Speaking at the meeting...
Have you ever visited with a friend and as you start to leave, something like this is said, “Well now that we have solved the problems of the world I will say good-bye.” I wonder what sort of conversation and how long of a conversation it would take to actually solve all the problems of the world? I do believe it could be a very brief visit to get that ball rolling. A couple of sentences. The Golden Rule, treat everyone as you would like to be treated. The Greatest Commandment, Love your Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your min...
A region-wide campaign is kicking off, so to speak, with opponents of British Columbia mining projects collecting as many pairs of Alaska’s ubiquitous rubber boots as it can. Once assembled, the mountain of footwear will be deposited on Gov. Bill Walker’s lawn later this month. Collection locations have been set up in Petersburg, Sitka and Juneau, and in Wrangell donation boxes have been set up at Marine Artist Brenda Schwartz-Yeager’s shop and other local stores. The campaign is being driven by Inside Passage Waterkeeper, a Juneau-based affil...
If you've ever recycled a can in Wrangell, you probably have the Lions Club to thank. Since July 2014, the club has collected four full van-loads of the stuff. Since 1968, the local chapter has been doing good in the community, supporting projects ranging from childhood eyecare to the annual Gold Medal basketball tournament held each March. A steady source of its fundraising comes from collecting discarded aluminum, which gets redeemed for cash when turned in for recycling. "It doesn't have to b...
As parents run through their back-to-school checklists, Wrangell’s Public Health Center urges them not to forget vaccinations. As August is National Immunization Awareness Month, health nurse Ty Esposito said her office provides all the necessary childhood shots, including diptheria, rotovirus and hepatitis shots. Adults are admonished to get their vaccinations as well, for pneumonia, tetanus, zoster, meningitis and human papillomavirus. Next month, the office will be offering its annual round of influenza vaccines as well. The shots are a...
Two hearings this month could change the face of Alaska’s salmon fisheries forever. On August 21, the Department of Natural Resources will hear both sides on competing claims to water rights for salmon streams at Upper Cook Inlet’s Chuitna River or to a proposed coal mine. If DNR opts for the mine, the decision would set a state precedent. “It would be the first time in Alaska’s state history that we would allow an Outside corporation to mine completely through a salmon stream,” said Bob Shavelson, a director at Cook Inlet Keeper. “And the sole...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) _ Two employees of an Alaska backcountry lodge startled an adult grizzly bear while running on a trail in Alaska's Kenai Peninsula. The bear stepped out of thick brush and mauled one woman while the other ran for help. Gabriele Markel, 20, was recovering Wednesday at an Anchorage hospital. Her wounds, which authorities described as bites and scratches on her head, back and arm, weren't considered life-threatening. She was upgraded to good condition from fair on Wednesday, authorities said. Markel and a co-worker, Kaitlyn...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – Royal Dutch Shell PLC has applied to amend its federal permit to allow drilling into oil-bearing rock in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska's northwest coast. Shell last month received permission to begin some drilling in the Chukchi Sea but was banned from digging into petroleum zones roughly 8,000 feet below the ocean floor. The federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement limited the permit then because equipment was not on hand to handle a possible well blowout. The equipment is on the Fennica, an icebreaker t...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan is hosting meetings in Alaska to hear from veterans on health care provided through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Listening sessions are scheduled for Aug. 24 in Fairbanks and Kenai. Sullivan's office, in a release, said the VA undersecretary for health will attend. The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee also will hold a field hearing in Eagle River Aug. 25. Concerns have been raised with the VA's implementation of the national Choice Program, modeled partly on an Alaska program meant to a...
The City and Borough of Wrangell is taking applications for this year’s borough-wide regular election, set for Oct. 6. Up for contest this year are two 3-year seats on the Assembly, currently held by Daniel Blake and Julie Decker. The two three-year Port Commission seats of John Martin and Clay Hammer will expire in October, as will the four-year terms of Dorothy Hunt-Sweat and Woody Wilson on the Wrangell Medical Center Board. Tammy Groshong’s three-year seat on the School Board expires in October, and there will be two other vacant sea...
Anan Wildlife Observatory is apparently the place to be in Wrangell, according to a recent survey. A study commissioned in June and released earlier this month by the Wrangell Convention and Visitors Bureau found Anan to be the city's most popular visitor destination. Travelers migrate to the area each year from early July to late August to view Anan's bears, which themselves have arrived to take advantage of what is Southeast Alaska's largest pink salmon spawning event. According to United...