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It was a busy night at City Hall on Tuesday, Aug. 28 as the Borough Assembly met in three sessions to hold a public hearing, certify the Wrangell Medical Center Board of Directors special election results, and to meet in regular session on a number of items. The public hearing, which began the evening, was to hold a second reading of a proposed ordinance that would clarify oversight of the WMC board and their powers in operating the hospital. One proposed change would restrict the board to a...
The hour-long, borough-wide power outage experienced Sunday, Aug. 19 in both Wrangell and Petersburg was due to rifle shots into an insulator on one of the main power delivery towers on Wrangell’s backchannel. According to Thomas Bay Power Authority General Manager Paul Southland, the rifle shots into the insulator core were no accident. “The SEAPA helicopter crew found the fault early Monday morning,” Southland said. “The insulator on the tower had been shot multiple times, so it wasn’t...
5 Seats *Marlene Messmer – 346 *Judy Allen – 332 *Robert Henry – 290 †Barbara Conine – 290 Betty Keegan – 264 2013 Seats *Terri Henson – 275 *Bernie Massin – 21 Marlene Clarke – 184 Mike Ashton – 173 Mike Nicholls – 118 Billie Younce – 114 2014 Seats *Cori Robinson – 368 *Megan Clark – 252 Rhonda Dawson – 235 Brad Williams – 206 2015 Seat *Woody Wilson – 290 Janell Privett – 274 † - The tiebreaker between Robert Henry and Barbara Conine was determined according to Wrangell Municipal Code section 2.28.160, which called for the drawing of lots...
It’s almost time for high school volleyball in Wrangell again, as the Wolves 2013 season gets underway Sept. 24, with their annual Jamboree set for Oct. 5-6 in Metlakatla. Head coach Jessica Whitaker said this season will present a number of opportunities for a shot at state – mostly thanks to the returning seniors. “I’m really looking forward to this season because we have multiple seniors coming back who have played with each other since middle school,” Whitaker said. “This will be their se...
The Wrangell Wolves Cross Country squad began its season Aug. 24 in Sitka with a top-15 finish for at least one member of the boys and girls teams, respectively. Under awesome weather at Totem Park, Jacob Marshall finished the 5K run in 13th place with a time of 18:24.44, while Kayla Rooney nabbed the 15th place in her race with a time of 23:25.98. Following the leaders, Asia Prus came in at the No. 20 spot with a time of 24:17.13, with Sasha Ashton, Andrea Gillen and Molly Prysunka coming in...
Members of the Wrangell Fire Department assisted in a disaster drill held by the Wrangell Medical Center on Monday, Aug. 27 at Petroglyph Beach. From left: Carl Johnson, Mike Lane, Bernie Massin and Dee Dee Blatchley carry a volunteer participant off the beach....
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. September 5, 1912: The element of luck in human affairs is both questioned and denied but it was either luck or the unsurpassed headwork of foreman Gingras in calling out hose cart number 2 in anticipation of a fire last Friday evening. The team had for drill purposes made a run to the Wrangell Sawmill and drowned an imaginary fire. As the hose was reeled back on the cart, some of the laddies smelled smoke from burning cloth. The scent was followed to the old men's house and after breaking several...
Monday, Aug. 20 -Suspicious circumstance, officer responding. -Officer responded to dispute over water being turned off at business without notification. -Report of an ATV stuck in the muskeg. -Arrested Diana Kay Gadd, 49, on two counts of violation conditions of release. Tuesday, Aug. 21 -Officer responded to disturbance. -Report of theft. -Arrested Dana L. Cawthorne, 30, on charges of DV assault. -Report of theft, officer responded. Wednesday, Aug. 22 -Vehicle unlocked. -Assisted fire department report of kitchen fire. -Verbal warning for...
To the Editor: The August 23 Wrangell Sentinel article regarding commercial blueberry harvest raised concern. My understanding is that Trail Mountain Harvesters would get the resource (the blueberries) for free and pay the pickers fifty cents per pound. That is about one-tenth of what domestic blueberries run in the grocery store on sale. I have picked Alaskan blueberries for over forty years, and consider blueberries and other berries to be an important part of our family diet. Wild blueberries run about 4.5 to 5 pounds per gallon, so TMH...
Psalm 12:5-6a NIV “Because of the oppression of the weak and the groaning of the needy, I will now arise”, says the Lord. “I will protect them from those who malign them.” And the words of the Lord are flawless. I believe that there is way too much that we try to do alone. And one of those things that we try to do is judge others. Not as in the court, but in our hearts. And then we often sometimes even go farther than that, we speak out. In the emotion of the moment we tell someone what we believe is the truth or the right of it all, text so...
John Henry Schultz’s funeral will be held Saturday, Sept. 1, at 2 p.m. at Harborlight Assembly of God, with graveside service, where he will be interred with his mother and other family members, to follow. A reception will be held at the Stikine Inn after the services....
For Father Thomas Weise and the St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church, the Rasmuson Foundation is providing pennies from Heaven. Nearly $25,000 worth of pennies from the foundation, to be exact. The foundation recently provided the church with a check in the amount of $24,718 for renovations to the historic building on Church Street in downtown. Father Weise, who has been at the helm of the church since 2010, said the changes were necessary to ensure the upkeep of one of Wrangell’s oldest Houses o...
A former U.S. Navy SEAL operator with ties to Wrangell is making news nationally after being exposed as the co-author of a book on his part in the top-secret raid that killed terrorist Osama bin Laden. Chief Petty Officer Matt Bissonnette, writing under the pseudonym “Mark Owen” is set to release his book No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden on Sept. 4. The book is being co-authored with renowned wartime correspondent Kevin Maurer and will be published by...
The Wrangell Wolves wrestling season gets underway next month, as the team will travel north on Oct. 12-13 to face off against, among others, their archrival Petersburg Vikings team. Head coach Jeff Rooney said he’s looking forward to the season and his strong talent pool. “It’s going to be good year,” Rooney said. “We have a lot of guys coming back and a few new up-and-comers. By this week we’ll have a meeting as a team and start pre-season workouts. I think we’ll have a good shot for some titles and victories because we tentatively h...
Following an extensive nationwide search, the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute Board of Directors has selected retired Coast Guard Captain Michael Cerne to replace Executive Director Ray Riutta upon his retirement. Cerne will begin working in the ASMI Juneau office in September to allow for several months of overlap before Riutta retires in December. “While it will be difficult to replace someone the caliber of Ray Riutta, I’m very happy with the board’s decision and we are quite confident that Mr. Cerne will be an effective leader at ASMI...
Salmon season is winding down and it’s still a guess if the statewide catch will reach the 132 million fish forecast. Achieving that all comes down to those hard to predict pinks, whose catch makes up more than half of the total harvest. “I think it’s going to be close. It all depends on what happens with the pink salmon runs in the three major producing areas: Prince William Sound, Kodiak and Southeast,” said Geron Bruce, assistant director of the Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game’s commercial fisheries division. This summer a catch of 70.2 mill...
For many people in Southeast Alaska, and particularly Wrangell and Petersburg, the burdensome weight of drug and alcohol addiction is something they live and cope with, and fight against on a daily basis. The most recent numbers released by the state show a marked increase in the use of illegal drugs such as heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine over the course of the past decade. In a June interview, Wrangell Police Department Lieutenant Merlin Ehlers said his office has seen an uptick in the amount of narcotics flowing into the borough....
KSTK General Manager Mike Symons, along with engineer John Matthews, stand with a brand new satellite dish to be installed for upgrading the station’s NPR feed....