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Nearly a dozen large mining projects planned for the interior of British Columbia could have an impact on the Stikine watershed and the lifeblood of Southeast Alaska – commercial and subsistence fisheries. That was the bleak picture painted by a group of activists who visited Wrangell last week to inform the public of plans by private industry and the B.C. government to build a number of open-pit mines and explore the vast, unpopulated region east of the U.S. border. Guy Archibald, the Clean W...
Parents of the littlest Wrangellites now have a program specifically designed to assist them in pre-Kindergarten learning. Krissy Smith, a local parent and member of the Wrangell School Board, recently completed and received a $14,000 grant for Best Beginnings, a program that focuses on assisting parents with resources and providing scholarships for children whose families cannot readily afford day care. “Our grant is for $14,000, but we will be applying for more grants as our funding need is m...
A revival of the art of traditional boat building is underway in Wrangell. That resurgence is taking place as one man seeks to keep history alive with an old-fashioned technique and rendering to work from. Josh Lesage, a volunteer on the Chief Shake Island renovation project and native of Canada, is currently building a vessel at the SNO building that will be used by him and his partner, Bianca Martin, when they return to the Yukon later this year. “I got into boatbuilding out in Whitehorse a...
The Alaska Housing Finance Corporation has awarded a portion of $1.7 million in new funding to the Alaska Community Development Corporation for administration of the HOME Opportunity Program. Alaska CDC was awarded the funding to expand the HOP to Wrangell, Petersburg, Ketchikan, Sitka, Haines, Juneau and other communities in Southeast Alaska. HOP currently serves just the Matanuska-Susitna Borough and Kenai Peninsula. The program provides principal buy-down, down payment and closing cost...
Monday, Oct. 24 -Traffic Complaint -Theft/civil matter Tuesday, Oct. 25 -Parking complaint, vehicle moved before officer arrived. -Vehicle unlocked for owner. -Suspicious circumstance, possible theft. Wednesday, Oct. 26 -Officer responded to barking dog complaint. Thursday, Oct. 27 -Officer responded to unsecured premises. -Officer responded to report of a vehicle theft. -Officer responded to a civil matter. -Officer responded to a civil issue. -Unsecured premises. -Officer responded to report of harassment. Friday, Oct. 28 -Road debris....
David V. Evenson, 20, appeared before Magistrate Chris Ellis on October 19, 2011 and was found guilty of driving under the influence and driving with license cancelled/ suspended/revoked or limited, and is ordered to serve five days in jail, and is fined a total of $1005. The defendant must contact AICS and complete screening evaluation and recommended program and pay all costs. The defendant’s driver’s license is revoked for 180 days. The defendant must perform 80 hours of community work. The defendant is placed on probation for two yea...
To the Editor: The Wrangell Chamber of Commerce’s (WCOC) main mission is to support economic development for our members. The WCOC board of directors fully supports the new Wrangell Medical Center (WMC), but only if it is a stick built project. The benefits to the WCOC members will be substantially more with traditional on site construction, than if the project is built with modular construction. We ask that the City & Borough of Wrangell (CBW) and WMC work to do what is needed to make the project be built on site, not down south and barged t...
JoAnne Bell-Graves and Ken G. Levine were married August 7, 2011 at Glacier Gardens in a very intimate wedding ceremony. The bride is the daughter of the late Bob Bell of Sitka and Alice Bell of Bellingham, Wash. She attended school in Sitka and graduated from Waynes College of Beauty with a degree in Cosmetology. JoAnne is the owner of Advance Skin Care, which travels to Wrangell. The groom is the son of the late Alice Peratrovich and Roy Levine of Sitka. He graduated from Sitka High School....
Lillith (Lil) Bauman Yancey, 93, a long-time resident of Wrangell was called to be with the Lord on Oct. 5, 2011 in the comfort of her own home. Born in 1918 in Ladysmith, Wis., Lil graduated from the Minnesota Bible College and took music classes at the Chicago Conservatory of Music. She taught music for several years, during which time she met and married Lyle Yancey in 1953. In 1960, a son, Eric Lyle Yancey was born. Lil’s family moved quite a bit, mostly around Montana, Wyoming and Idaho w...
John D. Fabrello, 69, of Juneau, died October 27, 2011 after a six and a half year battle with prostate cancer. He was born in Carlton, Minn. to the late Antonio and Anna Fabrello, on June 19, 1942. John graduated from Wrenshall High School in 1960. John was a veteran of the U.S. Navy, honorably discharged in 1967 after spending time on the USS Chickasaw and USS Ajax. He started his family in San Diego, Calif. moving to Brookings, Ore. before relocating to Alaska in 1972 where he lived since....
Michael A. Howell, 60, died Oct. 17, 2011. at home after a long illness with his family at his side. Mike was born May 7, 1951, in Everett, Wash. to Doug and Jackie Howell. He was the oldest son of five children, which includes sisters Loretta and Sue, brothers Marvin and Ronnie. Mike graduated from Forks High School in 1969. He married Rinda Kay Winger in 1969, and they made their home in Forks, Wash. Mike served in the Army from September 1970 to September 1973, serving overseas in Germany...
The Wrangell Wolves wrestling team traveled to Anchorage this past weekend to take part in the Anchorage Christian School tournament – and two members of the team walked away with a place in the finals. Teams from 44 schools and more than 400 wrestlers attended the tournament at ACS – a meet which is highly beneficial to the Wolves team according to head coach Jeff Rooney. “The competition at ACS allows us to seed our wrestlers more efficiently at the regional and state meets,” Rooney said. ...
For the first time in nearly a decade Wrangell High School will host a Drama, Debate and Forensics tournament featuring schools from across Southeast Alaska on Nov. 11-12. Teams from Ketchikan, Petersburg, Sitka, Mt. Edgecumbe, Juneau-Douglas, Thunder Mountain and Haines high schools are scheduled to attend. DDF head coach Mike Symons said the tournament is a chance for the Wolves to shine in a number of competitive categories – and to show Southeast Alaska what Wrangell has to offer in the w...
If you notice the streets of Wrangell getting a little brighter at night in the next few months, you can be sure it won’t be because of our Alaskan latitude. Over the coming months, Wrangell Municipal Light & Power will be installing more than 360 LED streetlights on borough streets. The lights, says Electrical Superintendent Clay Hammer, are more efficient than the high-pressure sodium or mercury vapor lamps currently in use. The lights, which are funded through an Energy Efficiency and C...
A Wrangell man is resting comfortably after being rescued by a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter on Tuesday morning after his 22-foot Bayliner sank in Keku Strait, south of Conclusion Island. A Coast Guard helicopter pulled Lester Kuntz, 47, off his boat, The Keeper, as it was sinking due to a puncture in the hull. Kuntz said he had motored into a safe harbor after stormy conditions forced him to abandon his original trip plan from Kake to Wrangell. “It wasn’t the storm that got me,” Kuntz said....
Attorneys for Alaska Island Community Services are asking the Borough of Wrangell to look into possible conflict of interest issues and delays in physician privileging by the Wrangell Medical Center board. In a letter to Mayor Jeremy Maxand, dated Sept. 26, Danielle Ryman, an attorney for AICS, alleged that the board could be acting improperly after failing to adhere to their bylaws. The board, according to the letter, is not acting on a request by Dr. Greg Salard for emergency room privileges...
Leadership takes many forms but a goal believed in by most is the key component for a successful outcome. In our recent past we can look to the Marine Travelift and haul out facility as an excellent example of leadership, which has generated economic activity for our community and stimulated other cities in SE to imitate our success. The formation of the newest Borough in the state is another very recent example of leadership coming from Wrangell and being copied by others. Some will argue the need of individual projects, or the specific...
