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Tuesday's Regular Borough Assembly meeting was preceded by a public hearing on Ordinance 887 being proposed, an amended section of the Wrangell Municipal Code largely dealing with the control of animals within City and Borough limits. The revised ordinance has already been sent back to the Ordinance Review Board before for retooling, and this latest appearance would be its second reading. A number of the island's residents showed up to express their concerns that the wording of several sections...
Members of the Wrangell Borough Assembly met Monday at a special midday session to formally approve election results certified by the Borough Canvass Board on Oct. 9. The official results included votes cast at the Nolan Center on election day, Oct. 7, as well as assisted and absentee ballots cast prior which were counted by the Canvass Board. For one 2-year term as Mayor, David Jack received 304 votes and Kipha Valvoda received 75. For two 3-year terms on the Assembly, Mark Mitchell received 27...
The middle schoolers in this year's Girls on Track program gather round the finish line by the park at Shoemaker Harbor Saturday morning after their final five-kilometer run of the year. "It went really well. We had a great season," said coach Becky McIntyre (back row, right of center). Despite a solid downpour, 20 runners joined GoT's six girls for the 5K, including parents and younger siblings. McIntyre enjoyed this first attempt at the program aimed at a middle-school audience, which is an...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. October 29, 1914: It is with a feeling of regret that we make the announcement this week of the retirement of Dr. L.P. Dawes from the medical field of Wrangell, Dr. Dawes having decided to move to Juneau to take up the practice of his profession in that city. Dr. Dawes has been in practice in Wrangell for about five years and had built up his practice to the full extent and his move to Juneau is for the reason of a larger and wider practice offered in the Capitol City. During his stay in Wrangell...
The inaugural project of Wrangell Cooperative Association's new carving facility began Friday, as a special adzing crew from White Enterprises started work. "We've been hired by Alaska State Museums to create a small-scale tribal house," explained master carver Steve Brown, a former Wrangell resident now based out of Sequim, Wash. Carving for 44 years now, he lived in the borough during the mid-1980s and helped carve the totem poles at City Park. The 22-by-26 foot cedar house they are preparing...
Monday, October 6 Found Property. Recovered Property. Found Property. Arrested on charges of Violating Conditions of Release/Unlawful Contact: James Vandebunte, 51. Tuesday, October 7 Welfare Check. Unlock Vehicle. Report of Harassment. Unlock Vehicle. Citizen Assist: Officer responded. Wednesday, October 8 Lost/Missing Wallet. Request to unlock vehicle. Thursday, October 9 Alarm – Alarm going off. Person on scene. All secure. Civil Issue. 911 – Misdials. Citizen Assist – officer unlocked vehicle. Friday, October 10 Report of Possible Haras...
After nearly 34 years of service, Irene Ingle Public Library will be getting a new head librarian after Kay Jabusch retires at the end of this year. She began there in June 1980, working closely with Irene Ingle – the previous head librarian for whom the library was renamed – before taking over her position after Ingle's retirement on Jan. 1, 1981. When Jabusch retires from the position on Jan. 1, 2015, assistant librarian Margaret Villarma will likewise assume the post. "I think the tra...
Candidates for Alaska House District 36 met in Wrangell Thursday evening for an on-air forum hosted by radio station KSTK. Republican candidate Chere Klein and Independent Dan Ortiz – both from Ketchikan – are running in the Nov. 4 election to represent the district's communities in the State Legislature. KSTK's director Cindy Sweat acted as the evening's moderator. Candidates were given five minutes apiece for opening statements, alternating who got to answer questions posed by the public fir...
A ballot measure to protect salmon in Southwest hasn’t grabbed as many headlines as pot and campaign politics. Ballot Measure 4, sponsored by the group Bristol Bay Forever, asks voters to give the Alaska legislature final say on any large oil, gas and mining projects in the 36,000 square miles of the Bristol Bay Fisheries Reserve. The initiative does three significant things to the existing reserve, said Dick Mylius, a former state director for the Division of Mining, Land, and Water. “It adds large scale metallic mines to things requiring legi...
Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Dan Sullivan visited Wrangell Thursday as part of a broader tour of Southeast Alaska. "We're on a pretty big Southeast tour," he explained, visiting Ketchikan and Petersburg before moving on to Fairbanks and Barrow. Early in the day, Sullivan visited Wrangell's Marine Service Center, which he seemed impressed with during an interview before his evening meet-and-greet at the Stikine Inn restaurant. "That looks like a really impressive job creator," he...
Independent candidate for lieutenant governor Byron Mallott stopped in Wrangell for a meet-and-greet with potential voters at the Stikine Native Organization building's dance hall Thursday evening after visiting Petersburg earlier in the week. The ticket Mallott and Independent candidate for governor Bill Walker share is a unique one in Alaskan politics. Until early last month, Mallott had been the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in a three-way race between Walker and incumbent Gov. Sean...
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — State health officials say Alaska is at a lower risk of an Ebola outbreak than Lower 48 states but they're not taking the threat lightly. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports the Division of Epidemiology within the Department of Health and Social Services last week listed steps it has taken to prevent an outbreak. They include distributing guidelines to health providers for early recognition of patients who may be infected. The Ebola virus spreads through direct contact with blood or body fluids. It spreads only w...
It appears to have been a successful month for moose hunters as the season came to an end yesterday. As of Tuesday morning, Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG) biologist Rich Lowell reported it likely to be the second-best season on record. A total of 97 bull moose were harvested from the Petersburg-Wrangell area, better than last year's 92. The highest recorded figure was 109 moose in 2009. Of this year's harvest, 36 were killed near the Stikine River, its highest harvest in 24 years....
Superintendent of Wrangell Public Schools Patrick Meyer speaks to 22 elders about new developments as they enjoy an Alaska Day luncheon Monday, hosted at Island of Faith Lutheran Church. Earlier in the meal, students from Jen Miller's third grade class presented the group with a song. "We've done this for several years," said church member Gayle Gross. Volunteers from different denominations helped to serve up an assortment of soups and desserts. Gross explained they chose Alaska Day for the...
In association with the Juneau Mendenhall Flying Lions Club, the Wrangell Lions will be bringing in a plusoptiX vision screener to the borough to mark World Sight Day and National White Cane Day this week. Tomorrow screening will be available to the children of Evergreen Elementary School. Screenings open to all comers Saturday at the Wrangell Children's Fair from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., also at the school. Adults can be screened, though the focus is on children ages six months and up. “It's an awesome tool,” Lions President Janet Strom explained. Th...
Maddison Gillen contemplates which pumpkin to pick from the patch as her mother, Tracy, looks on. Arranged by the Wrangell Chamber of Commerce and supported by volunteers, Saturday's Second Annual Pumpkin Festival was a success. Five pallets of the seasonable orange squash were distributed around the Alley Cat lot next to Wells Fargo, with face painting booths and pony rides giving children something fun to do while their parents enjoyed the borough's Tax-Free Day sales....