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SEARHC, the medical provider that recently took over management of the Wrangell Medical Center and is currently overseeing construction of a new hospital, held a talk Monday, Oct. 21, on diabetes and traditional foods. The talk was lead by Kelly Lakin, a diabetes educator with SEARHC. Diabetes is a disease that occurs when one's blood sugar is too high, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Insulin is a hormone that the body produces to transfer...
As anyone who has lived in Wrangell can attest, the sea is an important part of life. Many Wrangellites make their living on the ocean, be it fishing or operating a charter boat. Even if they do not rely on it for a living, many people in town enjoy taking boats out on the water. To showcase this fact of life for Wrangell, and to bring to life part of its history, the Nolan Center will be opening a new exhibit: "Wrangell Remembers - Shipwrecks Close to Home 1908-1952." "It is very important to...
October 30, 1919 The Town of Wrangell last night established a quarantine against the Town of Petersburg During the past two or three days there have been rumors that smallpox existed at Petersburg. Yesterday a cablegram was sent to the Territorial Health Commission and their reply was: All incorporated towns should protect themselves against Petersburg for two weeks. L. O. Sloan, Territorial Health Commissioner. Upon receipt of the above cable gram the Board of Health held a meeting and ordered a quarantine against Petersburg for two weeks....
October 21 Traffic stop: Verbal warning for speed. Theft. Traffic stop: Verbal warning for equipment failure. Citizen assist: Civil standby. October 22 Parking complaint. Suspicious person/intoxicated. Civil disturbance, all parties were advised. Agency assist: Pre-Trial. Criminal trespass/theft. October 23 Citizen assist. Illegal parking. Citizen assist. Theft. Civil standby. Citizen assist. October 24 Parking complaint. Paper service: Writ of assistance. Assault. Civil standby. Assault. Arrested: Tangles Hilton, 48, on charges of assault IV....
September 23: Charges of violating conditions of release against Katie Edfelt were dismissed as part of a plea agreement. Katie Edfelt plead guilty to a charge of theft. Judge Kevin Miller sentenced her to 10 days imprisonment, a $100 police training surcharge, $50 initial jail surcharge, and $30.88 in restitution. Katie Edfelt plead guilty to a charge of assault in the 4th degree. A charge of assault 2 was dismissed as part of a plea agreement. Judge Kevin Miller sentenced her to one year imprisonment, a $100 police training surcharge, and a...
Jesus said, “Wait here while I go into the garden and pray.” I’m sure that He did not enter into a garden in Alaska, all our gardens have gone to sleep for the winter. He did of course pray for us living in areas all over the world. We who tend to our gardens do so with extreme care and love for what we expect to produce during our growing season. At the harvest of our gardens we receive our reward of tending to our garden. Those of us that produce extra are more than willing to share our good fortune. We are proud of what was accom...
The Friends of the NRA will be hosting a banquet in Wrangell this Saturday, beginning at 5 p.m., at the Nolan Center. This has been a highly attended event in previous years, with many Wrangell residents coming out for good food, auctions, and the opportunity to buy or win new guns. Greg Stephens, NRA field representative for Southern Alaska, said he believes this will be the fourth year in a row they have held a banquet in Wrangell. It has always been a sold-out event, he said, and he expects...
Wrangell Medical Center (WMC), part of the SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC), recently received notice of the successful certification of six new Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA) from the Wrangell CNA Training Program. The six-week program, instructed by WMC Registered Nurse and state certified CNA Training Instructor Katrina Ottesen, prepped the half-dozen Wrangell locals for the state exam and an opportunity for employment at WMC. A graduation ceremony will take place in...
The Wrangell School Board, still getting settled with new members from the election on Oct. 2, held a work session on the evening of Oct. 28 to begin a review of the district's strategic plan. The strategic plan was adopted in June of 2018, and sets a series of goals for the school district to aim for through to the year 2023. There are five main goals outlined in the plan, each with their own set of strategies and actions to be taken to accomplish them. The goals are: Student Learning,...
They are certainly cute but the voracious appetites of sea otters continue to cause horrendous damage to some of Southeast Alaska’s most lucrative fisheries. How best to curtail those impacts will be the focus of a day long stakeholders meeting set for November 6 in Juneau. “All of the people who have anything to do with the otters hopefully will all be in the same room at the same time,” said Phil Doherty, co-director of the Southeast Alaska Regional Dive Fisheries Association (SARDFA) based in Ketchikan. A 2011 report by the McDowell Group...
Wrangell was one of seven teams to participate in the Haines Invitational this past weekend. It was a hard week for them, according to Assistant Coach Jack Carney. He was very proud of the team’s performance, he said, but the trip took some of the energy out of them. As a team, Wrangell made 106 points and took third place. Ketchikan took first place at 185, followed by Thunder Mountain at 106 points. “It was a long weekend, long way up to Haines,” he said. “I’m proud of our team, it just wasn’t the best weekend.” In the Varsity 103 bracket,...
The Lady Wolves volleyball team travelled to Skagway for their most recent tournament of the season. The team had games scheduled against Haines, Skagway, Klawock, Craig, Metlakatla, and Petersburg. The team saw several wins this tournament, and while they suffered a few losses, they ended on a high note. Wrangell’s first two games were against Haines and Skagway on Friday, Oct. 25. They played three games, each, with Wrangell winning each game. Against Haines, the Lady Wolves won 25-21, 25-10 and 25-13. Against Skagway, the Lady Wolves won 2...
This year’s moose season finished with a final count of 127 animals, which is a new Unit Three record, according to Petersburg Fish & Game. Last week when the season ended on Oct. 15, final preliminary numbers showed 125 moose harvested this year, but hunters had an additional five days from the end of the season to report their kills to fish and game. Since the end of the season, two more moose were reported. The additional moose were shot in the Stikine River area and another mainland location. In 2017, hunters set a unit record of 119 moose...
